Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-04-28
Indiana Democrats Vote
to Endorse Man for
U. S. Senate.
PRIMARIES TOO SLOW
Kern Leads in the BaIloting but
Says He Will Not Take
the Office.

in the democratic convention today
was over the matter of endorsing q
candidate for senator. The faction
headed by Governor Marshall favored
the endorsement of a candidate by the
present convention and the Taggart
following wanted a state wide primary
to decide Several speeches were
mado and at times the speakers be-
came 80 bitter in their declarations
as to throw the convention into a tur-
mOil of excitement.
Police Keep Order.
Delegates blocked the aisles and it
required strenuous efforts by the po-
hce and conservative leaders to quiet
them. At the conclusion of the
speeches a roll call was ordered.
Adopted by Close Vote.
BY a vote of SIS to S5S the conven-
ton adopted the proposition of Gov
ernor Marshall that the convention en-
dorse a candidate.
Eleven Candidates Named.
Names of candidates were presented
when nominations for senator were
asked for. The following were named:
G. v Menzies of Mount Vernon; Rob
art w. Mfers of Bloomington, Joseph
H. Shea of Seymour, L. Ert Slack of
Franklin, John z. Lamb of Terre
Haute, Thomas Taggart of Indianap'
oils, John w. Kern of. indianapolis,
Lawrence Becker of Hammond, Daniel
w. Simms of Lafayette, Edward G.
Hoffman of Fort Wayne and John a.
Adair of Portland
Kern Ahead, But Refuses Place.
On the first ballot John w. Kern led
with 3O3 votes and Taggart was second
with 22S. On the second Kern had
CAT, Taggart IA and Lamb 2O4. Kern
announced he would not accept if NOM
mated. Taggart declared the demo
Gratis desired Kern's nomination
At the end of the third ballot Kern
lacked 100 votes for the nomination
for senatorship.
ShiVeIy Tariff.
indianapolis, Ind, April 2S.-Perma-
nent Chairman Shively, addressing the
democratic state convention today, de-
voted his time almost entirely to a
discussion Of the new tariff. He re-
ferred to Taft's speeches pronouncing
1t the best tariff law ever enacted, and
then called attention to the recent re-
publican state convention of Indiana,
which, Shively said. condemned the
measure and approved of party in
surrection against it.
First Time They Have Confessed.
For the first time and by their for
NAL proceedings in convention" said
Shively, ''they confess a protective tar
iff may be unjust and oppressive; that
it may hatch trade conspiracies and
foster monopolies; that it may cripple
the unfavored producer and pillage the
purse of the consumer; that it may
breed forces so powerful as to master
the party which embraces it; that its
beneficiaries may scorn good advice
and wise counsel and write their own
rates into the schedules; that it may
visit a vast variety of other ills on so
ciety, all of which confessions are true
as they go and are good for the souls |
of those who made them"
TaEgart Loses Slxirmish.
Governor Thomas R. Marshall and |
John E. Lamb, vice chairman of the |
democratic national committee, tri- |
umphed over Thomas Taggart, former
democratic national chairman, and |
State Senator B. F. Shively last night |
in the preliminary skirmish that mark
ed the initial session of the Indiana
state convention. After a stormy ses-
sion the committee on rules and order
of business decided to submit the ques-
tion of endorsing a candidate for the
United States senate to the conven-
ton today.
The Taggart-Shively forces opposed
the plan bitterly at the session of the
rules and order committee, but we're
outnumbered in the embarrassing
struggle. and so the controversy went
to the floor of the convention itself
for