The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-09-09
Within Short Time After DEM
ocratic Member of State
Election Board Named there
Was SpIit-up.
HAVE A FALLING OUT
OVER ELECTING CLERK
R. C. Houston, President of the
Prison Board, Denies Re-
port He Is a Candidate to
Succeed J. Reed. ::
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Indianapolis, Sept. 9.-Within a
short time after NJ. M. Batchelder had
been placed upon the board of elec-
ton commissioners Thursday, the two
democratic members. Governor Mar
shall and Mr.. Batchelder found them
selves voting against each other. It
was through the vote of Charles
Roemler. the republican member.
Governor Marshall was able to elect
Everett w. McGinnis as chief clerk of
the commission.
When the vote was called Batcheld-
er declared he would not vote for Nc
Ginnis and persisted in casting his
ballot in favor Of another man whose
application had been filed at the gov
ernor's ONCE. It is not known wheth-
er Batchelder was acting under in
structions from the democratic state
committee in Withholding his support
from McGinnis.
II Was 4 Surprise.
It was surprise to him when
Charles Roemler, the republican men,
Der, came to the aid of the governor
and elected the man whom Governor
Marshall considered best fitted. Nc
Ginnis is q member Of the local Typo
graphical Union and president Of the
Central Labor Union. A. e. Butler.
clerk of the state bureau Of printing,
who was elected assistant clerk, is a
republican.
Governor Marshall's plan is to
award the men fair amount for their
services after the work is done. The
regular salaries granted are 5000 for
clerk and $500 for assistant clerk.
It is asserted by the republican state
committee that in former years when
the republicans controlled the election
board the work Of that body was half
done at this period before election.
The delays encountered may call for
almost daily meetings of the board un-
til the work is under headway.
Denial Of Houston.
r. c. Houston, president of the In
diana prison board of control, has en-
tered q vigorous denial of being a
candidate for warden of the prison to
succeed the late James Reid Mr..
Houston is a newspaper man of Frank
fort and an appointee of Governor
Marshall.
Political Talk Turns.
Political talk of republican pros.
poets in Indianah as taken quite a
turn In tone among the men. who last
spring. declared Senator Beveridge
and the progressive movement would
split the party and end its hopes in
defeat. Since the insurgent victories
In Wisconsin. Vermont, New Hamp-
shire and Georgia, most Of those who
clung to this small coterie Of stand
patters have had their eyes opened to
the real forces at work in politics. A
good many men who formerly looked
whole thing In the campaign have
awakened to the fact that the people
and not the politicians are playing the
game this time. These few to whom
the name Of Beveridge was 90 bitter
are talking this week frankly and
openly in the flrm conviction that the
senator 10 the salvation of the party
In Indiana. They can look back with
. good deal Of pride now to Indiana
being the Arst state to 60 on record
with . progressive platform In its
Of April 5. A few profess
sional politicians who have been pout-
ing about Beveridge, while perhaps
slightly defective in vision through
are nevertheless not un-
mindful Of the sentiment which has
como to the leaders from the people
through the sixty day poll From now
on It looks like . rush and q tumble
to get on the Beveddge progressive
republican train which ID getting un-
headway with . rush.