The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1910-12-31
DEMOCRATS ARE IN SWEAT
OVER SPEAKERSH|P PROBLEM

can be elected. and that they and the
rest Of the candidates will agree on a
compromise candidate
The straight-out and anti-Taggart
candidates for speaker, who held a con-
ference in this city last Thursday, prac-
tioally agreed to pool their votes and
agree on one of their number as the
man to be voted for 10 prevent Taggart
from naming the speaker. They claim
ed they could muster thirty-one votes
without any help from Venneman. They
figured that Venneman would remain in
the race, but up to that time the Gov
ernorship had not entered into the
fight.
Now however since il Is realized by
the politicians that neither Venneman
or Wise can be elected, they figur-
ing that practically all of Venneman's
followers will be willing to compromise
on any good man. OF course, any COM
promise candidate agreed on by the
candidates will necessarily have to be
an anti -Taggart man, for the reason
that there is no known Taggart man in
the field. Several days ago the fight
developed into a case OF the field
against Taggart, who was behind Wise.
and when Wise drops out Taggart will
De Cpnpelleu 10 Iall III DenlnQ an anti
Taggart man or keep still. OF course,
tn effort Will be to unite on the can
didate who will be the least objection
able to Taggart in order to make the
whole business look like a harmony
action.
! Adolph Sedensticker. OF this city.
and Joseph M Cravens. OF Madison, are
the names most mentioned in this con
nection, with the chances now favor
ing Seidensticker. Taggart does not
/ like Cravens and Cravens has no earth
ly use for Taggart, politically. There
fore, 1T Is safe to assume that Taggart
would prefer Seidensticker to Cravens.
, 1t is believed here that this arrange
ment would be entirely satisfactory to
Governor Marshall In fact. Democrats
who have discussed the matter say that
1T Is the only way by which they can
get through this speakership muddle
with anything like harmony and with
out ad feeling. There is good reason
to believe that something along this
line will be done within the next few
days. and that whe1 the members of
the Legislature assemble here next
Tuesday for their caucus they will find
the speakership atmosphere very much
cleared.
Inere ls lively nght on for the po-
sition of clerk of the House, the lead
ing candidates being Charles McCul-
Tough, OF Brazil. and w. g. Wells, OF
Fort Wayne. Mccullough is in the leao
and will probably be elected. Wells
has been a member of the House and
! has a good many friends among ths
J older members, but Mccullough has
been making an aggressive campaign
! for the place and has made a good i'm
, preston.
Dale ]. Crittenberger. editor OF tn,
; Anderson Herald. is the only candidat,
, for secretary of the Senate. and he will
certainly be elected. John J. Walsh, o
2 this city. seems to be the leading can
didate for chief doorkeper OF tn,
House. He Is a prominent labor unioI
man and the labor organizations ar,
behind him. No one has been mention
g ed for the chief doorkeper of t.
$ Senate. but It is safe to assume tina
plenty of them will be plenty of as
r pirants before the caucus convenes