The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-04-19
MARSHALL IS NOT
4 CANDIDATE FOR
THE PRESIDENCY
Indiana's Governor Is Not Ev-
en- Laying Lines to Secure
The Toga Now Being Worn
BY Beverage.
Is MUCH SATISFIED
WITH PRESENT JOB
Efforts Of His Friends to Boom
Him as the Successor of
Bryan viii Fail to Have an
Effect.
Special CORRESPONDENT.

Indianapolis. April 19.-Those admir-
ers of Governor Thomas R. Marshall.
who are so industriously boosting him
as the logical candidate of the demo-
Gratis for President. may rs well save
their efforts. for Governor Marshall
will not be a candidate for that nomi-
nation. There is no doubt the gov
ernor would be as glad as any other
man to receive the honor at the hands
of his party, but you can't make Thorn
as r. Marshall believe that he is big
enough for president-not yet. His
friends believe he is big enough for
anything and IL they can induce him
to think SO. they will do it, but there
is not the slightest danger of their be-
ing able to do this.
Governor Marshall Is modest to the
third degree. No one ever heard him
intimate that he was anything more
than an ordinary. common citizen. and
played large part in landing him in
the governors chair.
Keeps His Promise.
During his campaign last summer
speeches that il elected he would give
all Of his attention to the duties of
the office and that he would not cam
paign for something else while COVER
nor. And this appears to be his poll
cy, for with the exception of his pres
ent trip to New York. and Washing.
ton. during which he made his import
ant speech at the New York democrat
ic banquet. he has not been away from
his office.
As q matter Of course. when Mar
shall was elected governor OF Indiana.
upsetting a republican majority OF 9S.-
600, 1t brought him into national prom
inence. and all over the country they
began to say that he was presidential
timber who is this man Marshall -
they asked. III he can do this in In
diana, why can't he do 1t In national
politics?'
1t was enough to make the democrats
Of the country sit up and take notice.
It gave them the idea that q new Moses
had been found. and they said nice
things about him. But the same thing
was said about Judson Harmon. who
was elected governor of Ohio by over
coming q republican majority OF $780,
600, and Of Governor johnson, Of Min
nesota, both Of whom havc since been
talked of for president. Marshall was
merely one of the three most talked Of
men in the country. Then he went to
New York and made his speech to the
National Democratic club, In which, he
expounded old-fashi0ned democratic
principles in q way that pleased every
body. He jumped on the element that
has taken the party away from first
principles and told them what they
must do to bring the party back home
again. The speech made q hit, and
the talk OF Marshall for president
broke out afresh.
Won't Have Big Head.
Governor Marshall has not arrived
home yet. but will be back in q day o.
two. and It is safe to say that his head
will be Of the same sire rs when he
went away. He is not the kind Of .
man who is affected by praise or nat
terry. II he was not candidate for
president before he went east he will
not be a candidate for president when
he returns to the west.
There has been . good deal OF talk
about Governor Marshall as a candi-
date for United States senator against
Senator Beverage. two years hence.
but there is nothing in that. either. He
will not ask for that office. and will
not be q candidate. He has given
this out definitely. He says he has
promised to be governor for four