The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-12-28

district committeeman from the thir-
teenth district since the death of
Demas ID. Bates, of South Bend led the
movement in the meeting OF the COM
mittee in favor of a late date. He
made a motion that the date or reor-
gauization be the first week in pril.
George w. Cromer. of Muncie. who
held the proxy of district chairman
James II. Culbert. of Portland. who
could not attend, offered an amendment
making the date the sixteenth of
January. Then. after the members had
discussed the matter for while.
Thomas withdrew his motion and offer
| ed a new one for the first of March.
There was more discussion. and it final
] ~ resulted in the selection of February
II as the date for the reorganization
and January IS and 81 as the time
| for the election of delegates. The vote
for these dates was unanimous, and
all agreed that the action was wise
! 1t was plain all day that the old
lime Republicans the who stand
by President Taft. were in the saddle
at the meeting of the committee. Sew
eral OF the leaders. including Harry 5.
New. James P. Goodrich. Fred A Sims.
W. T. Durbin and several others were
laround the committee headquarters all
QdN. anu 1t was pam mat their 1n1u-
ence was felt and that it was reflected
in Me action of the committee in every
particular.
For several days. in fact ever since
Estate Chairman gave Lee gave out his
statement two weeks ago that Taft
lcould not carry Indiana there had been
talk to the effect that when the COM
mittee met there would be an effort
made to remove Lee from office state
chairman because of his indiscreet ut
terances. This report could not be
traced to any solid foundation how
ever. But the subject was not men
toned either in the committee meet
ing or in the caucuses or around the
hotel lobby during the day. Those who
might have felt down in their hearts
that such a movement would be a
, pleasant duty, said they realized that
to undertake anything of that kin1
would have been a foolish move. pro-
ductive of more harm than good One
man said in conversation with one oil
the members of the committee prior 4
i, the meeting If he were a member OF
the committee he would be in faor OF
removing Lee, but that was the onlj
time the matter was mentioned as fal
, as can be learned. OF course, Lee vii
not be reelected state chairman wher
the committee is reorganized on tn,
second of February, and no one be-
lieves that any good could be accom-
plished~ by removing him. tina
time.
But the committee did clip Lee.
, wings In one way. 1t repudiated hi
interview in which he said Taft coul,
not CARRY Indiana. 1t was agreed b!
some of the members of the committe.
that in the meeting motion should b.
: made to adopt a resolution to thi
I; effect. and typewriter copy of tn,
:, resolution was prepared. The fact be
: cae noised about and Lee heard of it
!, and during the meeting OF the commit
tee he forestalled such action by max
: ing a little speech to the committee Il
:; which he requested that the committee
y adopt resolution denying that hi
r statement represented he committee
:; As soon as Lee made this request Elme
Bassett, district chairman Of the sixtl
: district, produced the resolution an
: moved its adoption. The resolution
was as follows:
l. Resolved. that the Republican stat
central committee disclaims that Chair
:; man Lee, in his recent interviews bear
:, ing upon the political conditions in In
diana. was speaking for the committe
as an organization or the individual
! members thereof. And this committe
idisavows and repudiates in advance a.
; future interviews of like character
: The last sentence of the resolutio
G provoked opposition. Lee told the com
mittee that it was necessary. beeaus,
7. if the committee did not want him I
= give out any more interviews he woul
" pot give out any more. So the crack
err was stricken out of the resoltitio
Z by a vote of ten to two. Cromer an
Bassett voting against its elmina ito
:. The ten other members presented vote
y to strike 1t out, A. j. Hickey, chairma
H. Of the Tenth district being absent
q After the meeting all parties declar
4 ed themselves well satisfied with tn
= action of the committee. Lee said n
felt good over the result and so di
= those who are against him.
Elmer +. Hastings. of Washingto,
president of the Lincoln League of In
, diana. came up for the committe
Z meeting. and brought with him a fu
sized boom for Will II Hays. of Sui
van, for state chairman. He said tt
. second district would be for him to
}. man. and that he would make the be.
chairman that could be selected Tt
$. fact is that the Hays boom got GOO
s. start al the gathering.
There was dismay in the Taggai
g Democratic camp last night when
@ became apparent that Taggart woul
2 have to fight for his life TO hold contr,
of the Democratic state committee. TT
democrats yesterday elected delegate
l. to the district conventions which the
viii hold tomorrow to elect new men
bers of the state committee. and II
. Taggart forces were Cleaned" in pra
- ticaIfy every point One of the wor
, defeats that has come to the Tagga
machine in many a day was the OF
- in the first district. where Benjamin
{. Bosse, of Evansville, the Boehne cal
. didate for district chairman rolled l
a. 112 out of the III delegates In the di
= trict against DIR T. -. Scales. of Bool
i Vile, the present district chairman
out and out Taggart man. The Boehn
or anti-Taggart faction. was confdei