The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-04-18
The Fact IS Now Frankly Admitted the big Boss" Has
Is Finding Some Opposition.
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Indianapolis, April 18.-Tom Tag
CART is candidate for United States
senator. This much can be stated as
a certainty, for he has been canvass
ing the leading democrats Of the. state
In the last few weeks in an effort to
find out how they would take to him
as q candidate and whether they
would be for him. Ii he does not make
q public announcement that he is a
candidate it will be because he has
found that the party will not stand for
him.
1t is known that Taggart has called
on several of the leaders and asked
them whether they would be for him
or against him in case he should
make his announcement. Some of
these men are men that one would
naturally expect to see lined up be-
hind him for anything he might want,
and the mere fact that he has adopted
this plan has caused some people to
suspect that Taggart is not as sure OF
his ground now as he has been at
times in the past. 1t would have been
unusual in the past to see Taggart
going around among the democrats of
the state asking them what they
thought of anything which he wished
to do in the party. His plan has al
ways been to go ahead and do what
ever he pleased and then ask the dem
ocrats afterward how they liked it. If
they liked-all right, If they did not
like it-well. then he was sorry
Taggart asked some of the demo
cratic leaders whether they thought
he could be elected senator in case
of democratic control of the senate.
him he stood as good chance as any
other candidate. 1t is known too that
others told him that he could not be
elected. 1t is known further that some
OF the very men on whom he might be
expected to depend for support in
case he made his announcement. told
him in plain words that they would
not be for him. but that they would
be against him and would do all they
could to prevent his election as United
States Senator. It is said that he has
not even been able to line up all of
the liquor forces in his favor. though
this does not seem probable, because
Taggart has always been their friend
at court and has done their work for
them.
Taggart wants to be senator so bad
he can taste it. and the only thing
that keeps him from announcing his
name right now, is the perplexing un-
certainty of the situation. II he was
sure that the democratic state con-
vention next week would not adopt
the plan Of Governor Marshall for the
nomination of candidate for senator
by the convention he would know bet
ter what to do. And IL he felt that he
was sure Of his ground among the
leaders on whom he has been in the
habit of depending for support 1t
would also be a different proposition
with him, and Taggart would then
come out in the open.
Taggart does not want the state
convention to make any senatorial
nomination. He is fighting the propo-
sition tooth and toe nail. and it looks
like he has the governors scheme
beaten to pulp. but you never can
tell. 1t Is pointed out that Taggart
fears that II the plan we're adopted by
the convention and his name were pre-
sented as candidate for the place
Governor Marshall would get out on
the floor and make an Il hate" speech
that would stir up more hades and
birthstone than certain other 81
hate" speech stirred up on another
suspicious occasion. No one knows
whether the governor would do this,
but 1t is believed that he would, for