The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-11-15

that either Spencer or Seidensticker
must get out of the race If Marion
county is to get the speakership. and
1T seems that Spencer is the one most
likely to drop out. if either one goes.
In case the Marion county race mar
rows down to one candidate it will
be difficult to beat Seidenstieker, be-
cause he is a clean, aggressive young
man with a good head and he has
many friends. Aside from Seidenstick-
ar it is believed that Faulkner would
be the choice OF the majority of demo-
Gratis
Trained With TasSart.
1t has developed that Spencer was
candidate for speaker long before
he was nominated for representative,
and that he pledged two other candi-
dates for nominations in this county to
vote for him before any of them was
nominated. Spencer has always train
ed with the Taggart bunch in the
democratic party and is known as one
of the Tom Taggarts righthand men.
Therefore, the superstition is that
Spencer was brought into the race by
the Taggart crowd for a purpose. This
purpose has not yet developed.
Expected Today.
The newly elected democratic state
officers are meeting here today, and it
is expected that before they leave
town thy will announce a number of
appointments of deputies and clerks
for the various state offices. Each man
has received large number of APP
plications for the places. but only a
few announcements have been made.
Thomas Brolley has announced that he
has selected Thos. OMara, a young
lawyer of Terre Haute, for deputy state
statistician, and Wlater Moore of
North Vernon, a former Indiana uni
versity baseball player. for another job
in the statistician's office. Brolley is
a baseball fan and the author of the
Sunday baseball law, which he intro
duced in the legislature while he was
a member 0 fthe house, and it was ex-
pected that he would appoint a base
ball player to one of the jobs.
]. Fred Trance OF Huntington has
announced that he will retain in the
| office offthe clerk of the supreme court
Miss Mary Peacock, who has been in
| the Office for eighteen years under
democratic and republican administra
| tions. Lew Ellingham has announced
| that Frank /. Grubbe, deputy secFe-
| tAcry of state, will be retained in
that position until after the session oil
the legislature.
| These are the only announcements
| made thus far. 1t was understood
| that one of the matters to come befor,
| the newly elected officers today was
that of making appointments in such
| a way as to look out for the geography
| of the situation. There are so many
| different staet Offices in which the
L ,loo
| ed If each official made his selection:
| without consulting the rest it NIGH
result in a number of the plums fall
| ing in one district or in one county
while other districts or counties Nigh
not get anything at all. This, the,
said. would work harm to the party
and it is said that each man will sub
| nit his list of selections for places il
| his office and IL they are found to b,
| wrong geographically it is almost Ger
| tain that changes will be made which
| will distribute the jobs fairly amons
all of the democratic districts an,
! counties.
Tt was expected that the new off
Gals would be able to make know
a large part of their appointment lis
today, though there is nothing certain
along this line. 1t may be that nothin.
will be given out.
John w. Kern, who will be electe,
United States senator, says he will no
appoint a private secretary until prob
ably in February. He says he ha
not made any selection yet, although
he has had a number Of application
for the place. He says he is going t
take plenty of time and use great car
in making the selection, for a privat
| secretary is the most important par
| of a senator's office.
According to a story told yesterda
it has been practically decided anon
the democratic senate leaders that Sen
ator Frank NJ. Kistler of Loganspor
will be elected president pro tenn Q
the senate and that Senator Z. B. SLOT
senburg of New Albany will be chose
for floor leader. Both of these me
have served in the senate during tw
| sessions.
| A change will be made in the senat