The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-15
Indiana Candidate Declares That Will of People
 Is Defed
ALL SORTS OF TREACHERY
 CLAIMED 10 BE IN FORCE
Plea Is Made By Kern for Open Pollti- cal Methods, Alleging That Se- crecy Was the Cause of
 Ills Own Defeat.

Indianapolis, January 14-The selection Of B. F. Shively of South Bend as nom- inee for United States senator by dem ocratic members of the state legislature early today was followed this afternoon by a statement by. John W. Kern, who was Shivelys strongest opponent. Con- cerning the secret ballot against which Kern made hard fight, he says it made possible not only the betrayal of constitu- ents by their representatives, but ''all sorts of treachery, double dealing and corrupt practices"
 Shively was elected on the twentieth ballot after the caucus had balloted for five hours. The contest was hard one. John E. Lamb, who stood for the open ballot tried to throw his forces to Kern, but failed in each attempt. Mr Kern left the state house, where the eau GUS was held, immediately after the final result was announced.
 kern's Statement.
 MT. Kern's statement in part is as fol- lows:
 Tt is a matter of great regret that under the cloak of the secret ballot so many representatives were able to defy the will of their constituents I have in mind several counties where the senti- ment for my nomination was practically unanimous, and that sentiment was well known to their representatives, and yet those representatives deliberately betrayed their people and voted for men who, in primary, would not have received hand ful of votes in those counties.
 "The secret ballot made possible not only these betrayals, but all sorts of treachery, double dealing and corrupt practices. I believe that thoughtful people will find in the scenes of the last two days additional strong argument Tn favor of the election of United States senators by direct vote of the people. I do not care at this time to discuss in detail the causes which con- tributed to the result. The secret bal lot in way was responsible for it.
 q shall have something to say as to the interests which were back of the op- position to me, and as to the stories of double dealing and double crossing which are afloat. 1 have not been deceived as to the attitude of those interests and men. Their efforts to deceive me throughout the canvas were more amusing to me than otherwise. In due time the public shall know the whole story, and my only pur- pose in making these things public is to show the interests and these gentlemen that I was deceived at no stage of the game by any of them.
 "The democratic party in Indiana ought to maintain itself in power for many years. This will be possible only by cut terests which seek to control it and by following the counsels and advice of brave and patriotic men like Gov Thomas Mar shall, who has only at heart the welfare of the party and the interests of the state"
 Taggart Out of 1t.
 Taggart declared today that he took ab- solutely no part in the contest The Kern people are not denying this, but they declare that there was no effort to stop some things that were being done with Taggart's knowledge
 'I want to say" said MT Taggart, that my feelings have been with MT. Kern all through this race. I do not believe there is anything in these stories of double crossing. I believe every member of tho Marion county delegation was loyal to MT. Kern"
 When shown a copy of the Kern charges MT Shively refused to make any comment.
 MT. Shively's room at the Denison hotel was crowded today by legislators and friends who came to congratulate him on his victory. Messages of congratulation were received from national democratic 1~adars a,popo then, william I Rrvap