The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-08-30
.|lvlI Pompous Scion Of Lafay-
cite Enter the Lists to
Wrest the Senatorial Toga
From Beveridge2
IAN INTIMATE FRIEND
MAKES Announcement
]. Frank Is Now Out on Tenn
perance Lecturing Tour and
So His Views on Matter
Are Not Known.

more the story that J. Frank Hanly
will be a candidate for United States
Senator against Senator Beverage
has bobbed up, though diligent search
fails to disclose anyone willing to as
sumo the responsibility OF having
started it. Even from the time that
the Hanly story first started several
months ago, no one has claimed It's
authorship or even admitted that he
started it or that he knew anything
about it except what he had heard.
The party leaders in the state, or, at
least those republicans who have In
the past been leaders. say they know
nothing at all about it.
This time, however, there seems to
be more indications of truth In the
story than there has ever been before,
It Is now said that a man who was APP
pointed to an office by Hanly while he
was governor has made the statement
that within the last sixty days Hanly
told him that he proposes to be can
didate for Senator against Beverage.
The man who is said to have made
this statement is now out CT the city
and will not return for some time, so
It 10 not possible at this time to ascer-
tain the truth of the story. Mr.. Han
", also is out of the city on a temper,
ance lecturing tour, SO he cannot be
asked about it until he returns. And
even II he is asked as to the truth OF
the story when he gets back home 1t
is not likely that the former governor
will give out any statement on the
subject. He seldom talks for publica.
ton.
BY Good Authority.
This renewed talk about Hanly as
a senatorial candidate was printed a
day or SO ago In a Cincinnati paper,
having been written by correspond
ent who ought to know what he is
talking about, and for this reason II
has attracted some attention. But il
seems to be the general opinion among
the political lights here that the story
has no foundation. They do not be
lieve that Hanly will be senatorial
candidate, but some Of them are Of
the opinion that he may be holding
1t as club to force the republican
state convention next year to make {
! declaration In favor OF state wide pro
hibition. Hanly is we'll known to bt
the bitterest enemy the saloon has II
Indiana, and he is state wide prohi
bitionist, pure and simple. He will
not regard his life's work as finished
until he has seen state wide prohi
bition law written on the statute books
that will make 1t impossible to get Ii
quor to drink in Indiana.
Bit Of History.
It Is we'll remembered that last yea
when there was talk about the repea
OF the local option law by the legisla
ture. in which the republicans were t
take part. Hanly, then governor, de
clared that II the republicans failed t
sustain the law. and il they repealed
he would take the stump the next tim
against the party. That's the kind O
a temperance man he is. Whethe
this threat Of Hanly's had any effec
or not, the local option law was no
repealed. Only few republican men
bers Of the Legislature voted for re
peal, and they were members VIII
could not help doing so. The fact tina
the local option law was placed on tn
statute books is due to Hanly, an
there are many who believe that tn
fact that it was not repealed is ais
due to his influence. 1t Is known, a