The Green Forest tribune., 1910-04-29
SEEKS HARMONY
 WITHIN PARTY Great Desire of President Taft Is to Reconcile the Warning
 Factions.
WOULD HAVE INDIANA IN LINE
Situation in That State Known to Be DispIeasing to the Chief Executive Gossip Concerning Control
 of the Next House-De-
 layed Legislation.

s standardization Taft has told some of his friends that he de- sires nothing so much as harmony in the state of Indiana, and that the reasons for his decision not to speak in Indianapolis have been entirely misnterpreted
 The Democrats in congress say that i It makes little difference whether Nr. Taft wants harmony in Indiana or not. TOT harmony there is impossible, not, they say, so much because of any act of the president at the present time, put. because there still exists in h. diana solid element of standpatism In the Republican party which can be depended upon either to stay away from the polls or to go to them to vote the Democratic ticket at the election next November.
 There are several representatives sof the old-line regular Indiana Re- publicans now in Washington, men who went out of office when the Dem- ocrats succeeded in electing all but
 
 house of congress from the state. These visiting Indianans say that the Democratic claims that the men of their tariff habit of mind will stay away from the polls are not true, and that for the good of the administra- tion, if not for any overweening love Tor tariff revision, they will vote next November for Republican candidates for congress, for Republican state off, cers and for Republican members of the legislature
 f@ One can hear in Washington dia- metrically opposed stories about the situation in Indiana each being told with all the evidence that the relator Il sincere in the belief that he is 1peaking the truth It takes nothing more than these entirely opposed sto- sries to make it seem certain that h. diana in reality Is doubtful state atsthe present time. There are some Republicans who think that because Senator Beveridge voted against tariff revision, many Democrats will sup port the candidacy of Republicans for membership in the legislature, men who will vote for the retention of the senior Indiana senator in the upper house of congress-
 Democrats Have High Hopes.
 The Democrats say on the other hand that there will be no division of their ranks and that with the help they get from dissatisfied Republicans they will have no difficulty at all next November in making the Hoosier state practically solid in it's Democ- racy. ,ss is curious what great mischief one little word can create. Nearly all the newspapers in the United States, in printing the Republican platform, adopted at the Indiana state conven- tion, printed the word genuine" be- fore the word progressive" in the platforms statement of indorsement of the Taft administration. In the platform as it was adopted the word genuine did not appear, but it did ap- pear in the first draft, the one appar- Sently which was given to the newspa- per men to send out to the country.
 The platform as it appeared in the newspapers set forth that the conven- ton indorsed President Taft in every endeavor for genuine progressive" policies This made it appear to men who know the subtleties of language that the convention intended to inti- mate that some of MT. Taft's meas uresss were not genuinely" progress sive. The president read the platform in the newspapers and as he under stands the use of words thoroughly, lie concluded. with perhaps thousands of others. that the word genuine was put in in captious and ironical spirit.
 President Is Satisfied.
 Later when the president found put that the platform did not contain the word and that his policies had been indorsed heartily without any chance of Misunderstanding, he forgot his { first displeasure and it is said told his friends that he was entirely satisfied Since MT. Taft has reached the mood .of Satisfaction over the convention
 
 trAtion, he has become outspoken in his desire for harmony in the Hoosier state.
 The president also is engaged in what to him is work of love in trying to get the Republicans of Ohio t6gether. While the majority party has been hoping that the Democratic governor of the state, Judson Harmon, might make some errors of omission or .commission that would strengthen the Republican cause, NIT. Harmon has been going ahead doing things apparently which the people of the state cannot complain about
 There are many members of the present dominant party who come from districts that are exceedingly close politically, and these members are disturbed over the seeming indif- ference of some of their Republican colleagues as to the result of the next congressional election. The members whose districts are close say that