The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-22
Fact That This Is Regarded as
An OFT Season Does Not
Seem to Make Very Much
Difference Now.
vERCONFIDENCE IS
NOT TO BE FAULT AGAIN
Strong Effort Will Be Made by
Party to Defeat Democrats
Who Were Elected to Ma
tional Congress.

Indianapolis. Aug. .l-Althoueh
this is supposed to be an off season
~ state politics. nevertheless II Is
true that active work is being done b.
the republicans in the direction of ef
tecting n close organization for next
years campaign. The leaders seem
determined to win next year. They
are strengthening the party lines In
the various districts In the state. so as
10 not ony elect the state ticket. bur
also 10 elect republican congressmea
In majority OF the districts rs well.
People expect naturally that an Off
year in politics is real. sure enough
OH year. but In this they are mistaken
this time The republicans Of Indi-
ana learned a few things last .year.
and they seem now to be determined
to make good use of the lesson they
learned. Last year when the cam
paisn opened. the republicans felt &c.
cure in their position because of the
fact that they had been in power for
many years in Indiana
Looked q Good Lead.
They thought evidently that they
could not be defeated. For years the
republican plurality IN Indiana had
ranged all the way from :sOGD to 9o.-
Sss ard II seemed next to impossible
Tor the opposition to overcome this
lead. And you could not get many re-
publicans to admit that the party was
In any danger. But their feeling Of
security was wrecked soon after the
campaign opened. The republicans
found the democrats united again.
They found the democratic line drawn
tightly and hat there was sure to be
a fight In earnest. But the republicans
did not realize the seriousness of the
situation until II was too late to over
come the wave that was sweeping the
state. They could not stem the tide.
On top of all of this the special ses-
sion Of the legislature was called and
passed the county local option Law.
This drove many voters out OF the re-
publican ranks and into the lines OF
the democratic party-at least for the
one election.
Taking everything into consideration
the republicans last year had an up
hill fight from start 10 fnish, but
they did not know II until late in the
game. The nomination of Tom Mar
shall was another event that put the
republicans in a hole. The democrats
undoubtedly nominated the strongest
man for governor pust at the time
when the republicans were up against
it the worst
Dtsaster Remembered.
The disaster that followed II well
remembered. Eleven democrats out OF
thirteen were elected to congress. some
OF them from districts which had
been counted as invincibIy republican.
And it is this fact that has caused the
republicans to start early to organ
ize the party and get things In chape
to make a cleaning up at the electioa
next year.
Strong efforts are to be made. e.
pecially in the First. Fifth. Seventh,
Ninth, Twelfth and Thirteenth dis
tricts to elect republicans to succeed
the present democratic congressman.
In the First district John w. Boehme
was elected by the democrats while
he was still mayor Of Evansville. and
there does not seem to be any doubt
but that this result was due solely To
the passage of the local option lAW.
The same Is practically true Of the
Fifth. wher Ralph Moss, democrat,
was elected to succeed Congressman
Holiday. In the Seventh II In dim
cult to figure out just why the people
elected Charles Korbly. democrat, 70
succeed Congressman Overstreet, who
has been in congress for years and
who had a magnificent record. Kis.
bly, is light weight
Defeated Lands.
The Ninth dictrict elected Nartin
Morrison. of Frankfort. democrat. 70
succeed Congressman Charles B. Lam
dis. because Landis had become unpop-
ular with a large element Of his party
on account Of his methods of making
appointments. 1t is not believed that
the local option Law had anything to
do with the result in the Ninth dis
trict- But now that lands has beea
sheived and il not likely to again be
a candidate. the party In the Ninth is
believed to be in better shape than
ever, and that IL will be able easily 70
elect q republican Congressman next
year to succeed Morrison
II the republicans make . good
showing at the city election In Fort
Wayne this fall It II believed that e
will have . great effect on the con-
gressional electioa In the Twelfth dis
trfct next year. Tor It viii Be pretty
good test Of the senti0aat q H. dis
trick Fort W1yne - oDeA . 1Arue
vote in comparison Wtfh - 1ost 0l