The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-04-14
Gossip Of Indiana Politicians

The democratic state nominating
convention in Ohio will be held June
81 and a.
California prohibitionists will hold
their state convention in San Jose on
May Is.
Republican editors of Colorado are to
meet in Pueblo on April to discuss
the policy OF the party in the next cam
paign
The republican party In Virginia has
decided to put up a candidate for con-
gress in every district of the state this
fall.
Eugene N. Foss. recently elected to
congress from the Fourteenth Massa-
chusetts district. may be the next DEM
ocratic nominee for governor of Mas
tsachusetts.
The great question now agitating the
democratic party of Indiana is whether
the coming state convention shall In
dorse q candidate for United States
senator.
The prohibitionists OF South Dakota
have nominated a state ticket to be
| voted for at the next election. O. w.
| Butterheld il the candidate for gov
| ernor.
A special election will be held April
| 10 In the Thirty-second congressional
| district of New York to I'LL the vacancy
caused by the death of Representative
James B. Perkins.
| A gubernatorial boom has been
launched in New Jersey In behalf Of
Pierre Caravan. the Hudson county
prosecuting attorney. whose crusade
against the alleged meat trust recently
attracted nationwide attention.
Montana democrats are planning q
| great fight to capture the next legisla-
ture. II they succeed it Is probable
that T. ]. Walsh Of Helena will be
elected to succeed United States Sena-
tor Carter, whose term will expire
| next March.
Minnesota democrats are laying plans
| to capture the 'insurgent" republican
vote of the state this fall and carry
| seven of the nine congressional dis
| tricts. The Third and Sixth districts.
it Is said. are the only ones they will
| leave alone.
Eugene N. Foss, who recently wrested
the Fourteenth Massachusetts, district
from the republicans. is soon to make
a western tour ito carry the message
of tariff reform and reciprocity" Des
Moines, Sioux City. Omaha and st. Paul
are among the places where he is
scheduled to address democratic gath
erings
Republicans OF the Thirty first con-
gressional district of New York are
talking of opposing the denomination
of Representative Serene e Payne
chairman OF the ways and means COM
mittee of the house. The republicans
) report dissatisfaction in the district
arising principally from the loss of fed
eral patronage which was in Mr.
| % 10
a member of congress for twenty ST,
| years.
; FRANKLIN-Two hundred resident.
OF Johnson county went to Indianap-
oils Monday to boost the candidacy OF
Robert NJ. Miller. attorney of thi.
] city. who seeks the republican nom
ination for judge of the supreme cour
for the Third district
KOKOMO-Pursuantt TO a custom OBJ
served for the~last twenty five years
the Howard county democratic conven
ton, which is to be held in this cit,
on April 16, will be addressed by Johl
W. Kern. of Indianapolis. Mr.. Ker,
! was born and reared in Howard coun
ty.
! PERU-E. P King of this city, Mi
ami county's only candidate for tn
congressional nomination in the Elev
| enth district, was Endorsed by the coun
ty central committee Saturday and tn
= power was given ham to select his ow,
. delegates to the convention at Marion
on April IA
FORT WAYNE-Governor Thomas F
Marshall and many prominent demo
: Gratis from various districts of Indians
;. will attend the dollar dinner to b
:. given by the Jefferson club. Saturda
/ evening Covers will be laid for ST
hundred. and Charles NJ. Meier of thi
- city, will be POSTMASTER.
!, RICHMOND-R. G. Leeds gave a ban
. Quet for the thirtyfour members @
II Wayne county's delegation to the re
~ publican state convention Saturda
night. A resolution was adopted whic
> set forth the delegation's oppositio
4 to plank in the state delegation's OF
z position to a plank in the state plat
"a form that would indorse the Payne-Al
81 drich tariff law.
>rl EvANSVILLE-W. B. Carleton,
r newspaper man of this city. has made
Is formal announcement of his candidac
1T for the democratic nomination for joir
senator from vanderburg, Warrick an
Spencer counties Judge Edwin Goug
of Boonville is mentioned as the reput
= 1ican candidate for joint senator.
4 LoGANSPORT-The Cass count
democratic central committee at