The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-01

- eucn q strOnS IOilOWluS IN the
10 ate that any effort to throw the
% ate to Harmon or any other candi-
Z te will cause a party rumpus. The
3 vernor's friends would not stand for
1 for a minute.
In every presidential campaign Tag
9 TT is the Indiana head of move
ent for the nomination OF some can
late. The boom which Taggart rep
r sents in each campaign originates in
" York, as did the boom for Parker
IS ears ago. Taggart was the head
0 front Of that boom in Indiana, as
81 veil remembered.
The Democrat who was talking yes
Z fday, said 1t was certain, from all
q bpearances, that the same old game
II being worked this year, and that
y tie by little 1t will became apparent
4 n the Democratic press bureau is
= be used for that purpose, and that
Z Democrat state committee and the
u sn1ocratic editors OF Indiana will foot
Il 70 bills.
II is learned that the press bureau
matter was not the only one that
caused the members of the Democratic
state committee to mop their perspir-
Ing brows at yesterdays meeting. It
was given out before the meeting that
there was nothing of special import
ance to come before the meeting. ex-
cept the press bureau matter. but when
the members got together they found
another question that they scarcely
Va haf N with ed
after the meeting that they talked
about the temperance question, and
that 1t puzzled them. 1t was learned.
too, that they called Samuel NJ. Rails
ton on the green carpet and asked him
to explain why the Boone county Dem
iOcratic convention adopted resolu-
ton declaring against the repeal of the
county option law, when the Democrat
ic state convention declared in its plat
| form for the repeal of the law. This
unprecedented piece of insurgency on
the part of the Boone county Demo-
Gratis has puzzled the old timers more
than any other one thing that has hap
Ipened thus far in the campaign, for
ik was a direct break-away from the
policy laid down in the state platform.
Ralston, so ii Is said, told the CON-
mittee that neither he nor anyone else
could have prevented the adoption Of
the dry resolution in the Boone county
convention.
1T was the sentiment Of the Demo
Gratis of the county," he is quoted As
saying. land nothing could have pre-
vented IL in the face of such senti-
ment."
II is understood that Ralston's eX-
lplanation did not satisfy the members
OF the committee, although it was be.
llieved that he had sized up the situa-
ton correctly.
II is said that the Democrats are
confronted with a similar situation in
numerous other counties in the state,
where the same sentiment exists, and
that 1t is causing them a good deal of
worry.
In arranging for the campaign press
bureau the committee selected Guern-
sey VanRiper, an Indianapolis news
paper man. as its manager, and then
appointed an advisory committee con-
sisting of State Chairman Stokes Jack
son. Sam Ralston, Edward G. Hoffman
and George Beebee to advise with Van
Ripper as to the manner of conducting
the bureau.
The Republican congressional con-
vention in the Fifth district. held at
Nartinsville. yesterday, nominated
Frank Tilley. of Vigo county. for Con-
ressman. 1t also adopted resolutions
- w,,Is 1A tea - ov~<
Taft and his administration, declared