The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-17
GRAPEFRUIT IS
HANDED FOULKt
BY MARION PAPER
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equally as disagreeable. Having re-
ceived the letter he hands 1t out to the
press, and thereby gets his name IN
the headlines Of the newspapers. He
wears proudly the title Of official tat
tle-tale to the present administration.
He has also been listed by the presi-
dent as one Of three or four men in
Indiana whose honesty has been de-
finitely determined, the others. we be-
lieve being Lucius B. Swift. George
AIDE, Booth Harrington and Jake
Dunn-we are not SO sure about Jake
being on the list, which was furnished
to the president by the Abou Ben Ad-
hem of the string-the Hon. William
Dudley Foulke.
About all of the Indiana unemploy-
ed have been engaged since Novem-
Der writing articles for the Indian
apolis papers, explaining how it hap
pened. Up to last week. Mr.. Foulke
was too busy to put forth the last
word on the subject, but President
Roosevelt being engaged with his
Christmas tree and Mr.. Taft having
gone South and not requiring. for the
time being, the aid Of the Foulke in
tellect in planning the work of his ad
ministration. the sage of Richmond
hands down to the Hoosiers the real
ex cathedra pronouncement on the
situation. The persons whom the Re-
publican party in the last few years
have chosen for eadership-without
consulting Mr.. Foulke-are a bum
lot, in no way to be compared with
him in the matter Of intellect and
character. The party, in fact, has not
been living up to Mr.. Foulke. 1t has
allowed him to tower over it like an
airship above the bottom of gas
| we'll, and has not even striven to rise
gradually to his plane. Although Mr.
| Foulke does not say as much we pre-
sumo that the same thing has been
true of the party in the State of Mich
igan, Ohio, Illinois, North Dakota
Maine, Connecticut, West Virginia,
| New York, etc, where in the election
Of November 8, the Republican State
candidates fell further behind the ma
tional ticket than did the head of the
| Republican State ticket in Indiana
However, in these other States. so
much is not to be said in depreciation.
| They did not have Foulke to live up
to. Here we had, and deliberately re-
fused to do it, in some cases even
placing corrupt persons at the head Of
things, persons whom Mr.. Foulke ven
lures to state he will name If any one
should SO much as slap him on the
wrist.
We are told by Mr.. Foulke that in
the last campaign a gentleman Of
great ability and infiuence"-this can
only be Mr.. Foulke himself offered
to make speeches for the party. and
that he was only offered one speaking
appointment and at this place it was
stipulated that he was to speak on To-
Cal iSues. 1t must be remembered
that in Indiana the consent of the
spoken-to must be secured before a
speaker can be assigned. If any COM
munity in Indiana had called for Mr.
Foulke. which it didn't, he would have
been assigned to speak. AS for his
story about the speaker STIMULATING
what a speaker was to talk about, if
We were too mention it at all, we
would be compelled to characterize it
by the abbreviated and uncomely
name. OF course it is no fault of Mr..
Foulke's that it doesn't happen to be
so-it is only evidence of the turpitude
of the ignoramuses who don't know
an orator even when he admits his
eloquence.
Mr.. Foulke is displeased with Mr..
Crumpacker. although the Tenth dis
| trict congressman is one of the few
statesmen who was deemed righteous
enough to speak during the last cam
paign in Mr. Foulke's own town. where
there are number of republicans who
are SO much better than other folks
that they couldn't stand for tainted
| oratory. He says that Judge Crum-
packer was reelected by a greatly re-
duced plurality. 1t isn't Mr.. Foulke's
fault that this, too, happens to be I'M