The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-06-18
They Are Divided in Opinion as
to Whether This Move Will
Be for the Best interests
of Party. ....
SOME FEAR 1T WILL
BOOST ONLY TAGGART
Large Part of the Expense of
Such a Bureau Would Fall
Upon the Candidates-OId
Machine Rebuilt.
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indianapolis. Ind. June 1S.-Since
the democratic state committee began
talking about establishing a press bu-
reau for the coming campaign a good
deal of suspicion has been aroused
among certain democrats over wheth.
err Or not the bureau will be good
thing. The trouble seems to lie in
the fact that many of them are sus-
picious that the bureau may become a
personal or fractional affair, and that
one faction or the other in the party
will gain control of it and use it
against the other faction. This sus-
picion seems to be especially strong
| among the friends of Governor Mar
shall, and they are not yet decided or
the question of whether such a bureau
should be established.
Some of the democrats are firm in
the belief that if press bureau is
| established it will become merely a
Tom Taggart boosting affair and that
everything that is sent from the bu-
reau for publication in the democratic
papers of the state will have to bear
the O. K. of the French Lick boss be-
fore it will be allowed to go out.
It Would Be Dangerous.
They all recognize the fact that Tom
Taggart is practical politician and
that he knows the game from one end
to the other, and that a press bureau
in his hands and under his domination
would be a dangerous thing for the
| a wi q
expense of maintaining it is to be paid
largely by the state committee and by
the state candidates. The papers
themselves are to pay part of the
cost of maintaining the press bureau
if one is established, but a large part
Of the expense will fall on the candi-
dates and be paid from the campaign
fund.
Taggart acknowledged at the state
convention after he had been defeated
in his effort to prevent the adoption
of the governors plan for the nomina-
tion of candidate for United States
senator, that his machine was in-the
scrap heap, and a good many demo-
Gratis who had always fought Taggart
in party affairs were tickled to death
at the turn of affairs. But they see
now that his machine has been taken
from the scrap pile and put together
again, and that it will be dangerous
thing, as it used to be. unless it is
crushed. They believe that the es-
tablishment of the press bureau for
the campaign is part of the Taggart
scheme to elevate the machine into
0f VIZ
For "Good Of Party"
Great things could be accomplished
by Taggart and his machine if it were
to get a complete press bureau in OPP
Grafton in the state which would send
out official matter to the democratic
. papers of the state. The papers would
not know the difference. They would
undoubtedly print the matter sent to
them under the belief that it was for
the good of the party, and they would
not suspect. unless it was pointed out
to them that Taggart was behind the
whole scheme Such plan would give
Taggart the influence Of several hun
dred papers in the state, something
he could not get otherwise
If Taggart was to get control of the
press bureau it is not to be expected
that he would use it for the purpose
of giving Governor Marshall any more
publicity and credit than could be
avoided. Ever since Marshall licked
Taggart and his machine in the con
vention Marshalls friends have had
their chin in the air so to speak. and
have lorded it over the old crowd
But if Taggart can get his press bureau
to running he will undoubtedly take
. the hide Off some one.
A good many democrats believe that
a press bureau during the campaign
could accomplish much for the party
if it could be run as straight out
party affair and not degenerate into
a personal or factional institution, but
: they can not see how it can be. run
that way They are afraid of the
scheme.
French Lick Meeting.
The subcommittee appointed by the
democratic state committee consisting
of Edward G. Hoffman of Fort Wayne
George Beebe of Anderson, and Sam
uel NJ Ralston of Lebanon, to arrange
for the organization of a press bureau
l failed to hold meeting in this city
: this week. owing to the illness of the
wife of Stokes Jackson, state chair
: man. The committee will, however
have meeting at French Lick mex;
week when the democratic editors
meet there to discuss campaign plans
and it may be that something will re
$ suit from that meeting. 1t is SAID
e that ever since it became known tina
S the committee was figuring on estab
( fishing press bureau and that tn.
manager would be paid a salary of So
a week the committee has been swamp
ed with applications for the job. Thes.
applicants have come from all owe
t Indiana and many from other states.
s Much attention will be paid durin.
a the campaign this year by the repuh
r licans to the work OF effecting clos
Organization throughout the state an,
Twin carry it into many places wher