The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1909-12-28
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SIGH WITH
RELIEF
Danger of Love Feast Is
Eliminated and There Is
at Present no Cloud on the
Republican Horizon in
Old Indiana.
TIMES BUREAU,


Indianapolis, Inu., Dec. Zo.-NOW that
there is to be no love feast, the repub-
licans point out that they are in better
condition than they have been for a
long time, and that there is not cloud
on the harmony horizon. Those who
opposed the love feast plan declared
that nothing could be gained by hold
ing such an affair this year and that
there was no use in taking chances on
stirring up trouble by having one.
They talk differently, however, about
the plan of holding district love feasts.
along the lines of the one that is be-
ing so well arranged in the thirteenth
district. principally by South Bend re-
publicans. A district meeting of this
kind, they say, should be held in each
district. so that the men of that Sec
ton of the state could get together
and discuss their own. local affairs and
lay plans to capture the district at
the next election for congressman. In
fact, the republicans figure that they
will be able to reclaim at least four of
the districts which the democrats took
away from them last year, and they
believe that much good can be done at
district love feasts in the way of lay
ing plans for the next campaign for
enth and thirteenth are the districts in
which the republicans believe they will
be able to elect congressman next year,
and they say also that they may carry
the eleventh, because the factional
troubles that have existed there for so
long a time have about been cleared
away. and it looks like the eleventh
district republicans will be able to
! will he r
isfactory all around, George Osborne
of Marion is the man who seems to be
the best thought of in connection with
| the congressional nomination in the
eleventh district, and may republicans
| believe he can easily carry the district
If nominated. Osborne is prominent
| business man and manufacturer in
Marion and stands high in his COM
munity. The nomination for congress
has been offered to him before and he
has never considered it seriously. but it
is said that he is now thinking it over
and that he may decide to accept the
nomination. Strong, pressure is being
used on him to get him to run.
The first districtswill probably go re-
publican, because Congressman Boehne,
the democrat who was elected there
last year over John w. Foster, has an
nounced that he VIII not be candidate
for denomination or election. 1t is the
firm belief of the republicans of the
first district that Boehne is the only
democrat down there that could be
elected. Since he announced his re-
tirement at the end of his present term
the names of Major G. " Menzies of
Mt. Vernon and DR.. T. d. Scales of
L,
sible candidates for the democratic
nomination. but. it is not known here
whether either will go after the honor.
Menzies has been in congress and is one
of the strong democrats of the state
but it is not believed that he could
solidify the party behind him. 1t is
also believed that DR.. Scales would not
take the nomination, as he has turned
down numerous opportunities to run for
office.
Phelps Darbysof Evansville and John
w. Brady Of Princeton will probably be
the candidates for the republican nom
!, nation for congress in the first dis
trict. Brady is already in the race and
it is expected that Darby will get in
before long.
In the seventh district the republi-
cans believe they will easily win
Charles A Kor5ly is the present demo
cratic congressman from this district
having defeated Jesse Overstreet last
year. It is said that Oyerstreet viii
not be a candidate again, but he may
get into the race. Linton Cox of this
city is an avowed candidate for the
nomination, and he will probably be
nominated. He was a member of the
senate for two terms and was father
of the Indianapolis sixty-eent gas ordi-
] nance, which made him popular in this
city. Korbly got in bad a few months
ago by a speech he made in which he
aroused religious feeling. He is {
Catholic and he was quoted as saying
that the time was not far distant wher
Catholic would be president. He de-
MED that he made this prediction anC
declared that he was misquoted. bu
Just the same it is being used agains
him, and 1t was one of the things tina
led to the defeat of Charles A. Gauss
! democratic candidate for mayor of In
! dianapolis, who is also Catholic.
E. E Neal of Noblesville has an
nounced himself as a candidate for thu
j. republican congressional nomination il
!, the ninth district He is the only on
0 In the race thus far, but there may b.
5 others later Neal says in his an
2 nouncement that he finds conditions il
1 the party harmonious, and that he be
1 lieves the ninth district will go repub
8 lican by at least 1000. Last year Mar
0 tin Morrison Of Frankfort, democrat
5 was elected, defeating Congressma,
1 Charles B. lands. Morrison has no
6 been setting the world ahre, and tn
/
5 for them to clean up in the ninth.
9 The thirteenth. naturally a repub
8 lican district. will also be battl
2 ground next year, according to advice
4 received here. Whatever OF part