The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-15
'OUR JIM PREDICTS
REPUBLICAN DEFEATS
BIames Roosevelt and Says He
Has Strengthened In
surgency.
SEES A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE
DECLARES PARTY is FACING AN
ACUTE SITUATION AND HOLDS
THAT ONLY POSSIBLE SUCCESS
LIES IN UNITY OF G. o. p.

"uic III q CdAICdU III view 1OIh CITY
James e. Watson of Rushville predict.
ed on Wednesday that the republican
party would experience several de.
feats this fall. He believes the house
of representatives will be democratic
by at least thirty. He scored Theo
dore Roosevelt and blames him for the
different factions In the ruling party,
He says that the unity of these fac
tions is the only hope. A dispatch to
the Indianapolis Star is as follows:
Former Representative James E.
Watson of Indiana. who was the re
publican whip" In the house. and
who is an active campaigner. came
down from Utica today. where he had
been with Vice President Sherman
and left almost Immediately for Potts
vile. Pa. where he is 20 help open
the republican campaign tomorrow.
While chasing across town from the
Waldorf to the Twenty-third street
ferry in a taxicab Mr.. Watson made
some startling statements with regard
to the outlook before the republican
party at the present time, SO far az
the fall elections are concerned. and
gave it as his belief that present in
dications are for a democratic major
ity in congress next year of at least
thirty.
Mr.. Watson blamed Col. Roosevelt
not for making new insurgents or pro
gressives, but for helping to align
them SO distinctly that there is little
hope of their getting together al
things stand. ..-
II was out West with Vice Presi
dent Sherman in Missouri and Oklaho
ma" said Mr.. Watson, "and have beer
campaigning in eleven states thi.
year, and tell you the situation IL
bad for the republican party. an
not one Of those, who shut their eyei
and predict big majorities. The fs
publican party 10 confronted by q sit
uation that is acute. and 1t is no use
to shut our eyes to it. o.
1T is absolutely necessary for the
republicans to get together ev
erywhere. The indications are nov
that the next house will be democratic
by at least thirty majority, unless the
republicans do unite. We are losing
republican congressman all the time
from Maine to California
I'm many states a feeling obtains
either of dissatisfaction with the loca
leaders or with certain conditions, ant
thousands seek to express the feeling
of dissatisfaction. What they regare
as the most striking and effective
way is to vote the democratic ticket
There has been much the same feel
ing In Indiana, but out there all thu
leaders, while they have not come to
gether, have still reached q conclusion
that republicans ought all to vott
alike. and We ought to carry the state
"As for Roosevelt, I honestly do no
believe he has made q single new in
surgent for all his rhetoric. But wha
he has done has been to intensity tn,
feeling of those who were insurgen
at heart and to emphasize the split IL
the party. He has stiffened the back
bone of the man who had a tendency
after all. to come back into the folt
and work for the good of the party
SO that the latter grits his teeth, Ted
dy fashion. and says now he won
come back. That is about what Col
Roosevelt has done for the republi
can party. The need of the hour II
for all republicans to get together
but" concluded Mr.. Watson, as h,
hurried away into the Pennsylvani,
ferry house. Il have serious doubt,
that we can"