The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-12
He ls Not to Life the Latch OF
the Southern Indiana City,
No Matter How the String
Is Hung.
Posey's EFFORTS ARE
DOOMED FOR FAILURE
invitation to Roosevelt Signifi.
cant as II Indicates Change
Of Feeling In the First
District.
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100b0OoROse0s Ahs0se 0ORss S~ss .
n. 10 mot likely TO lift the latch Of
Evansville this campaign. no matter
how tsmptingly the string may be
hung. The effort Of Col. Frank B..
Posey to get the redoubtable express
tdent into the First district. surpris.
Ing % Il may appear In tho light OF
former sentiments expressed by the
congressional candidate. seems fore
doomed to failure. Il 10 believed to be
Q physical impossobility for Colonel
Roosevelt to swing down into the
Southwestern corner Of the state after
~ hits Indianapolis. October Is. He
win arrive here from Peoria. ILL.,. will
make . day OF Il In the capital. and
will then proceed eastward.
The signincence Of Colonel Posey's
effort. however. 10 striking. In that It
indicates IN entire change OF feeling
n the notoriously stand.pat First dis
trict. where nestles the nest OF James
Hemenway. Al the time Of Colonel
Poeep's nomination he was guarded IN
his statemeuts about Insurgency.
ASealdsee lnsuroents.
He was afraid Of insurgent speakers
being ssnt into the district. and init.
mated the keep or policy would be
best 70 insure his election. He drew
the line on La Toilette. although he
said he would not object II others were
- take up HE cause voluntarily. His
peooent Pisa 10 Roosevelt 10 ilro mp for
N y douhtlnGa. r Nettsr os chagrin 70
l.SDoDWuJs 034 u oyo-openor - %
~ soatinont Of the district which
herotoCoro has been considered for the
ooo 6uard. then, now and forever. How
ever, Il may not b IN overwhelming
surprise 70 the ex-senator. who wal
farsightod enough IN his o. 4. Of the
Aistrict platform 10 let Il % through
With q noeablo concession In any way
& an endorsement Of Senator Albert
J. Devssidge.
Thirty Days Poll.
Much more importance than usual
Vfll attach 70 the thirty-days' poll ot
~ ets4o this year ON both sides. The
oO-layU poll, BY the nrst reports. sim
ply shows wives know less than eveI
about their husbands political no
tioas. for which the era OF progressive
politics has come TO time when the
MDalo half Of the family n weighing
things much more carefully than be
fore. He 10 no longer Republican Of
. Democrat simply because he used
b b. He 10 away ct work when The
poll-takers call and the missus" car
only place him In . general way. By
October 3. when the last poll starts
Il - believed he VIII have talket
thlngs over and possibly win have sait
some things at the table.
N b not left for . few husbands Il
make up their own minds. Take thu
instance OF the sturdy. bare-armed ma
tron In the Firth ward. Indianapolis
who informed the poll-taker her hus
hand would vote for the men who viii
eloct Bevoridge. -. or else he'd Qui
'oAtin' around here" Il was wil
Coleman. secretary Of the Marios
county committee, who encountered
this. and he went on with q ligh
hoart.
Five anti-Kern Democrats were dis
covered In the sixth ward. Indianap
ola One Democrat stated nve of hi,
nDighbors had already offered convey
ances 70 gst out . big vote. He wa,
asked Il they were Democrats and re
piled: Call them what you please
but they are getting out the vote TO
Bevsridge."