The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-11-20
DATE OF HOLDING
PRIMARIES IS TO
Be DECIDED SOON
Stokes Jackson, Democratic
State Chairman, Is in Ind
annapolis Today to Confer
With the Governor.
DELEGATES WILL BE
NAMED At THAT time
It Is Thought That the Date
Decided on Will Be Some
Time the Fore Part of Jam
uary-Candidates. .
palladium Specially

CpeCldI
Indianapolis, Ind, Nov. oO.-Within
the next day or two, possibly today.
the date for holding the Democratic
primaries in the various counties for
the selection of delegates who, in turn
will elect the Democratic district COM
mittee men, will be selected. Stokes
Jackson, of Greenfield, was in the city
yesterday to see Governor Marshall
and others about the best time Cor
holding the primaries, but the COVER
nor was out of the city and Jackson
said he would return today and have a
talk with him.
Joseph Kelley. secretary of the DEM
ocratic state committee. says the date
will be set soon. 1t is believed that
the primaries will be held early in
January. The delegates elected then
will meet q few days later at some
point In each district and elect a dis
trict chairman. A little later the dis
trict chairmen will meet in this city
and elect q state chairman.
jackson 10 Silent.
Chairman Jackson has not yet an
nounced whether he will be Q candi-
date for reelection or not, but it is
believed that he will be in the race
when the time comes. He says he
does not expect many changes to be
made in the present membership of
the committee, but others are of the
opinion that there will be big fights in
some of the districts and that when the
committee meets for reorganization it
will contain several new faces.
The old committee, if reelected,
would probably re-elect Jackson or
some other man who would be accept
able to Tom Taggart, for the commit
mittee. 1t was Taggart who brought
about the election of Jackson as chair
man in the first place. The commit
tee might choose Samuel NJ. Ralston.
of Lebanon, as state chairman instead
of Jackson, as Ralston is counted a
stronger campaigner and a good poll
sician and he stands we'll, not only
with Taggart, but with the other ele-
ment in the party. He has always
been counted as a Taggart man. and
it is known that Taggart supported
him for the nomination for governor
last year, and came within an ace ot
nominating him at the state conven-
tion. But Ralston has always denied
that he courted the support of Taggart
and that he was not under the DONNA
tion of Taggart.
Darrow 10 Mentioned.
The name of Lemuel Darrow. mayor
of Laporte. has been mentioned as a
possible candidate for state chairman,
but it is not believed that the demo
Gratis would dare to elect a man as
liberal in his views as Darrow.
Some of the political writer's are
pointing to Fred A. Sims, secretary OF
state, as likely man for the position
of republican state chairman. They
declare that he could get the place and
that he would make first class chair
man, too, but it can be said now that
Mr.. Sims will not be q candidate for
the place and that he would not az
cept it If it were offered to him. He
was the active head of the state COM
mittee during the campaign last year
because James p. Goodrich, the state
chairman. was too busy as receiver OF
the c., C. 4 l. railroad, to pay much
attention to the state campaign.
In that fight Mr.. Sims showed his
| hand as a good politician and worker
but he says he never passed through
such a gruelling scrap as that before
and will never do so again. He says
he will not be a candidate for the
chairmanship, and that he would not
have the place under any circum
stances.
~ Have Had Mine"
81 have had mine." he says. Let
some other fellow try it"
The same writers are saying nice
| things about Sims as a candidate for
| congress in the Ninth district. and
predicting that he may be a candidate
for the nomination. It is undoubtedly
q fact that he could have the nomina
ton If he were to go after 1t, but per-
sons who ought to know what they are
talking about say that he will not be
a candidate for congress or anything
else next year. II any other republi
can In the Ninth district who wants
to run for congress, but is holding
back to see what Sims will do. he may
| rs well get ready to run, for Sims viii
not be in the way.
There had been great deal Of talk
also about former governor Winfield
IT. Durbin Is = candidate for stats
chairman. and IL has even been sai(
that w NJ Huffman. Of Anderson, whe
has always been one of Durbin's righl
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