The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram., 1910-05-03

Member Of Democratic Resolutions Committee Tells How Proposed
Turned Over to Governors Worst Enemy.

indianapolis, Ind. May 3.-Little by
little the aftermath OF the democratic
state convention Is coming out and ev-
cry bit that comes to the surface is in
eresting. for it shows that politics was
played with a vengeance
One of the best stories of the bunch
is the one about the refusal of the
platform committee to insert in the
platform plank indorsing governor
Marshall as candidate for president.
There was sensation in political cir
cles when it was discovered after the
convention that this had been omitted
from the platform, for it had been ex-
pected all along that the convention
would fairly throw itself to make such
Endorsement. Visions of great cheer
ing, hats In the air, arms waving,
canes swinging and handkerchiefs
fluttering when this plank was read,
caused many people to believe that
there would be q grand scene in the
conventions real ovation in honor of
the governor. But the ovation did not
come. The delegates did not "ovate"
worth a cent.
member of the resolutions COM
mittee was talking yesterday about the
failure OF the committee to recommend
an Endorsement of the governor for
president
Il don't know who wrote it, but there
was before the committee a written
plank in which such an Endorsement
was made,'' he said. Some one
brought it in and am informed that
it came from the state house. 1t came
in with some other matter that was
sent over from the governors office,
but do not know whether this partic-
ular sheet came from the governors
office or not. But you should have
seen what was done to that PROPOSE
tion when 1t was presented to the COM
mittee. The committee was almost
unanimous against the adoption. No
one seemed to want to indorse Mar
shall for president. The members
said they did not regard him as big
enough for presidential timber. The
plank proposed indorsed not only his
candidacy for president but indorsed
his administration as governor. The
very first thing was to draw pencil
lines through that part which indorsed
him as a candidate for president. We
left in that part which indorsed his
administration as governor, however
Then, when this was done it was decid-
ed to turn the whole business over to
Lawrence Becker, mayor of Hammond.
with instructions to prepare plank
which would be satisfactory to the
committee
Everybody knows what Becker
thinks of Marshall, SO the very fact
that Becker was asked to prepare the
Endorsement shows the kind of in
dorsement the committee wanted Say,
If that committee had indorsed Mar
shall for president few of us would
have presented a minority report. We
would not have stood for it. The
idea of indorsing that man Marshall
for president. 1t is ridiculous
Some one got hold of the tentative
plank after the convention-the one
| through which the pencil lines had
been drawn, and it has been shown
and has been printed in Indianapolis
pdpclo. JuSI AOW IL gu ouL III AoW
the story became public no one seems
to know, for the members of the reso-
lutions committee made an iron-clad
agreement among themselves that they
would not disclose anything that hap
pened in the committee meeting
This matter has stirred up a big
muss. Before the convention it seem
ed like a certainty that Marshall would
be indorsed as candidate for presi-
dent 1t was to be case of "favorite
son. But the plan slipped cog
somewhere. And now, it is pointed out
it would be very difficult for Marshall
to get any kind of unanimous in
dorsement from the democrats of his
own state that would do him any good
at the next national convention. Most
people here who have looked into the