The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-01-09
Next Wednesday Night Demo-
Gratis Will Hold Joint Cau-
Gus and His Selection on
First Ballot Is Predicted.
THE SHlvElY AND KERN
COMBINATION SECUTED
Gossip Has It II Two Candl-
dates Have an Understand
ing They Have Poor Way
Of Showing 1t.


indianapolis. Jan. ..
Next Wednesday night the demo.
Gratis of the senate and of the house
will hold Joint caucus and try to
select candidate for United States
senator on whom all can unite aud
whom they can elect in the legisa-
ture. The call for the caucus was L.
sued late yesterday afternoon. and
was signed by Speaker Honan; Sena.
tor Stotsenburg. joint caucus chair.
man: Senator Mccullough, OF Ander-
son. senate caucus chairman: Repre-
sentative Sweeney. of Tell City. who
was democratic caucus chairman dur.
ing the special session: Representa-
tive Strickland. of Greenfield. who
presided at the democratic house eau
Gus at the opening of this session and
Senator Kistler. of Logansport, demo
cratic floor leader in the senate.
Will Then Chooee Senator.
There are some who believe that
at the caucus Wednesday night the
nominee for senator viii be chosen
on the first ballot and that he will be
John W. Kern. There are many 9TH
ers who cannot see II that way. They
say the caucus will be long drawn out
and Kern will not win. And there
you are.
One thing Is certain. or It looks that
way at least. and that Is that II Kern
Is not selected Slack will be. The
Kern supporters are claiming thirty.
five votes on the first ballot. but Il 10
difficult to see where he ID going to
get them. He is more likely to have
twenty-eight This Is not enough, ~
it takes 42 to nominate. SO where will
he get the rest?
Combination Works Queer.
There has been a great deal Of talk
about combination being fixed up
between the Kern forces and the Shiv.
ely forces and there have been some
things in the developments that made
this look plausible. But II these two
men have formed a combination they
take queer way Of working it. It IN
known that many Of Kern's support
ers in various parts of the state have
all along advanced as one Of their
main arguments that the democratic
| party owes Kern Q debt Of gratitude
for having been willing 20 often to
| become a candidate On the ticket
when there was no possible chance
for him to be elected. And this argu-
ment has caught ON and has brought
Kern some strength. But 1t il known
also that Shively on 1T least one oc-
casion, according to q Kendallville
paper, attacked this argument and
said that sympathy ought not to elect
candidate, thus taking direct poke
ut Kern.
Now this does not look much like.
a combination between Kern and
Shively. 1t does not Indicate that
they are getting together unless II
may be for the purpose Of pulling
each others hair. Kern says there II
no such combination and 80 does
Shively. and they ought to know. So
does Judge Joseph H. Shea, 6hivcIy's
campaign manager. who comes from
right down in the heart Of Stacks own
district.
| Judge Shea Manager.
And. BY the way. q story has grown
out Of the fact that Judge Shea n
managing Shively's campaign. 0havo-
ly is a member OF the board Of trus-
tees Of Indiana university. So b Judge
Shea So is Thomas Honan. sopaker
Of the house. The story now = that
the strong influence of the Indiana
university was used in behalf 0f Ho-
nan in his race for speaker and that
this same influence Is trying By every
/ fair means to elect 6hively United
i States senator. The political activity
Of the university In this matter has
caused some comment among those
/ who have been Watching the course 0f
events. Judge Shea supported Honan
| with all his might when he was rum
ming for speaker. There was tAlk
some days ago to the effect that the
same elements that were working for
Honan were ct work for Kern. thus
indication that deal had been franz
ed mp between the two. but Judge
Shea, although he was an outsider II
such a deal was made. says II II oOe
4 true. and that the Kern votes did not
come 70 Honan until late in the day
when the caucus vas held Then they
came In and supported Hoaan-
Il II this II . true versf0n Of the carr
Gus story. then the wind fs knocked
i out Of The Kern-Hnaan combination
story So there you are again.
Il Judge Shea says he really Believes
Il Shively viii Be nominated By The Gnu
Gus for senator. He can't see anyttipg
I TO IL bat Shfvely. but he 11yB thof 8
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