The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-07-02
MANAGERS OF BOTH PO-
LITICAL PARTIES AGREE
TO PLAN-CONTEST
TO BE WAGED
ON STATE
ISSUES.

the work of organization is going
steadily forward. Before the
close of the present month each
of the state committees will have
its departments thoroughly or
ganized.
The speakers bureau of the
Republican state committee will
be opened next Thursday with
Will Hays, of Sullivan, in charge.
Soon after the Denver conven-
ton the Democrats will open
their speakers bureau with Gil
bert Hendren, of Bloomfield, as
its directing head. Early in Sep
tember each party will set a day
for the formal opening OF its CAM
paign all over the state. On that
day the oratorical fireworks will
begin, and there will be a contin-
uous and entertaining display OF
verbal pyrotechnics until the Sat
urday night before election day.
During the next two months
an oratorical practice volley will
be fired now and then by Thomas
r. Marshall and James Eli Wat
son and Attorney General James
Bingham will occasionally put a
shot across the bow of the Dem
locratic craft, but the real cannon
aiding will not start until Septem-
Der. The sixty-day poll will be
taken on September 4, and about
that time the excitement will be-
gin.
The fierce, white heat of the
coming contest will play about
the centers of population. Indi-
annapolis, Marion, Anderson,
Muncie South Bend, Terre
Haute, Fort Wayne and Evans
vile will be battle grounds OF
the first strategical importance.
The principal stake of the state
campaign is the Legislature. 1t is
the chief prize. If the Republi-
cans win eighty of the ninety
two counties may exercise county
local option and James Hemen,
way will be reelected to the
United States senate. If the
Democrats win there will be nc
appreciable change in the condi-
tons governing the sale of liqu-
or. In. order to carry the legis-
lature the Democrats must break
the Republican lines in the CEN
ters OF population. That is why
the battle OF paramount import
ance will be waged in cities.
| National issues, as far as car
be ascertainedS will cut very lit
tie figure in Indiana. 1t is to be
Ipre-eminently' campaign or
state issues. Both the Republi-
can and Democratic nationa
platforms will stand for tariff re-
vision and it will be impossible
to get up much excitement on
| that score. Not even the most
adroit speaker can work up much
enthusiasm over such minor IS
lsues as the publicity of campaign
contributions and the question Of
! whether the Injunction law shal
be amended by requiring notice
or by requiring some other Judge
| than the one who issues an in
junction to try contempt cases.
| In addition to spirited legislat
live and state contests There will
be hot fights in number of In
diana congressional districts thi:
lyear. The following are the con.
gressional nominations that have
been made to date:
i Repubiicans-First district
/, John H. Foster; Second, John c
CLANCY; Fifth, Howard Maxwell
. | Sixth, w. O. Barnard; Seventh
than b. Hawkins; Ninth, G. B
/ Lands; Tenth, Z. d. Crumpack
er; Eleventh, DIR. c. II. Good
i Thirteenth. c. w. Miller.
Democrats-Second district, W
A. Cullop; Third,W. E. Cox
Fourth, Lincoln Dixon; Fifth
William Moss; Sixth, r. H. Kuhr
Seventh, Charles Korbly; Eight
]. A. M. Adair; Ninth, Martir
Morrison Eleventh, George w
; Rauch; Twelfth, Cyrus Cline.
i There will be hard-fought con
gressionai battles in five district
the First, Second, Fifth, Eight
and Twelfth-wth chances goot
for lively scrap in the Thir
teenth. In the first district, Con
gresham Foster Is anltagonizec
. by the temperance element be
cause of his attitude against tenn
, perance legislation, particularly
! the Hepburn-Dolliver bill. Ii
/ the Second district the politica
scales are about evenly balanced
and this year there is genera
der,ocratic satisfaction over thv
nomination of w. A. Cullop, S,
that Congressman CLANCY will
be given a run for his money, 81
to speak. In the Fifth distric
} there is big fight ahead, witt
chances probably in favor O
Howard Maxwell, the republican
candidate.-Louis Ludlow in TIL
i Indianapolis Starr