The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-09-24
WHERE IS
MR.. BRYAN
TO SPEAK?
Democrats Touch the Great
Commoner Gingerly It
Is Announced That He Is
to Speak at Burlington
and Perhaps Hessville.
TIMES BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL

TIMES BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL.
Indianapolis, Ind, Sept. 23.-Evident-
ly the democrats who are in charge of |
the work of arranging speaking dates
for the spellbinders do not propose to
take any chances on W. j. Bryan Ii |
they can help it, Since the word was
received that Bryan had bolted Dahl !
man. the democratic candidate for gov
ernor of Nebraska, because the demo- |
cratic platform of that state on which |
Dahlman is running declares against
local option, the elements have been
busy trying to ditch Bryan in this
state, but they could not go SO far as
to cut him out entirely. So in making
up the itinerary for Bryan they have
showed him into some out of the way
places in Indiana. thus fixing it so
that few people will hear him as
possible.
For instance, they have assigned him
to make his first speech at Burlington.
No one outside of Burlington knows
where the place is located 1t is
hamlet in the eastern part of Carroll
county, many miles away from a rail-
road. The only way to get to 1t is to
go In a wagon. a buggy, or an auto
mobile. or hoof It,
Owensville is another of the places
ings. Owensville is also in the country
south of Princeton. 1t is little place
just the kind of place at which one
would expect the state committee to
send a schoolboy orator or some local
man to hold a schoolhouse meeting.
Another place is Edinburg. There
are several other large towns in the
district around Edinburg. any one of
which would have given Bryan a much
larger crowd than he could get at Edin-
burg. But the committee decided that
Edinburg would be about good a
place any in which to bury Bryan
| for one speech.
It is easy to see from the appoint
ments that this committee does not
| care to play UP Bryan in the Indiana
campaign. Bryan believes in local op-
| ton and made a hard fight to get the
| democracy of Nebraska to declare for
! 1t in It's state platform. But he failed
to put 1t over. The convention refused
| to follow his advice. and now Bryan
| has come out openly and bolted the
! ticket in his home state. A good many
people here are asking how he can
come into Indiana and make democratic
speeches on platform that is abso-
lutely wet after having bolted the wet
| ticket in his own state.
| Undoubtedly, in doing this the com
mfttee is following the dictates of Tom
| Taggart. 1t is a Taggart committee
| from top to bottom and whatever Tag
| CART says goes with it. Taggart is
we'll pleased with the wet plank In
the democratic platform and. of course,
| he could not be expected to enthuse
| over the prospect of Bryan coming
into the state and making dry speeches
So. 1t is believed that rather than take
| any chances what Bryan might say
| on this subject Taggart told the COM
| mittee to send him into the woods for
| the first few speeches in order TO find
out just how he will act and what he
| will say.
1t is learned here that the prohibit
tionists are planning to nominate a
candidate for Judge of the supreme
court to run against Judge Montgom-
| cry, republican. and Douglass Morris
| of Rushville, democrat 1t will be re-
| membered that Judge Montgomery who
is now on the supreme court bench,
was one of the two judges that voted
to declare the county local option law
unconstitutional. The other one was
Judge Monks. The other three judges,
however, held it constitutional, and
since they constituted a majority of the
court their decision settled the case.
Ever since then the prohibitionists
| nave had 1t in for Judge Montgomery.
. He was renominated by the republicans
to succeed himself. The prohibitions
i lists say that If he is reelected and the
| county option case should come up OF
| appeal again he would certainly take
l the same position he took before and
! hold it unconstitutional. And they say
/ that since the democratic state plat
| form declares against the county, op-
ton law and in favor of its repeal
| 1t would be natural to expect that Nor
/ ris would declare it demonstrations
| If the case were brought before him as
| a member of the supreme court.
Therefore, the prohibitionists say. the
/ law Will be in a bad way, no matter
| which of these candidates Is elected
| Therefore. they are talking of placing
| a third candidate in the field
straight-out local option issue. The
| candidate may not be a prohibitionist
| They say it makes no difference wha
| his politics is long IS he declares
| in favor of the maintenance of the
requirement. No name has yet beer
mentioned as possible candidate, bu
it is known that the prohibition leader.
| are considering the idea of making
| nomination. If they do this they will
l push the local option issue to the from
/ in the campaign and make strong
fight on it as they know how. The,
claim they bound to lose eithe
I way, in case of the election OF Mont
gomery or Morris. and that they in
tend to take no chances.