The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-09-01
TAGGART CROWD TRY TO
HAND ONE TO MARSHALL

candidate subject to the pleasure or
Taggart and the interests behind him.
II he went to the convention with
delegation selected by Taggart and
with the Taggart support the sur
face it would place him before the
people as the Taggart candidate, and
it is pointed out to the governor and
his friends that is the one thing to be
avoided. for Taggart represents the in
terests and big business.
If Governor Marshall goes before the
convention In this embarrassing garb
he cannot expect to get any support
from many of the other states, where
bossism in the democratic party has
been repudiated by voters. 1t would
place him at a disadvantage with
Woodrow Wilson. who has fought and
whipped bossism and machine politics
in New Jersey. If he keeps out of this
entangling alliance it is admitted that
he will be in much better position
to make his fight along anti machine
/. lines than he will If he ties APP in any
manner to the Taggart machine or
gives the Taggart crowd any hold on
him.
A good many democrats, therefore.
are urging the governor TO go out in
the state and make his own fight for
delegates. One recent development
that has caused them to thus advise the
governor is the fact that the Taggart
machine managers are already men
tioning democrats who, they say. would
be good timber for delegates to the ma
tional convention. They declare that
they are all Marshall men. and this is
probably true. but it is said that some
: OF the governors friends have been
/ looking over the names of those sug-
gested in the various districts. and that
they find them to be real Taggart men
and that some of them opposed Mar
shall for the nomination for governor
and that some of them were even luke
warm toward him after he had beer
nominated. The Marshall men say thai
such a delegation would not do at all
They say 1t would be for Marshall Ions
enough to give him complimentary
vote as matter of courtesy and state
pride, but that then the Indiana dele
cation would probably desert the gov
ernor and go over TO Harmon.
When the Marshall followers heard
the list of names of proposed dele
gates they began TO sit up and take no
tice, for it became quite apparent. SO I
is said. that the delegation as 1t wa
to be framed up by Taggart would no
be a good delegation for the gov
ernor
Some of the democrats fear that tn
governor will not resent the effort o
the Taggart machine to take charge o
his boom and pose as its sponsor be
cause he will be willing to accept sup
port from any and all sources. Blu
there are others who believe that tn
governor still has enough backbone t
run his own affairs and that he Wi
make his own campaign for delegate.
Independently of the Taggart machine
rather than take any chances on
double cross.
} The governor has been out of tn
city for several weeks, until Tuesda,
} when he returned from Bay View
Mich. where he had been spending hi
! vacation He is too busy with the &C
emulation of business in the govern
or's office to talk any politics just nov
; but 1t is understood that as soon a
he gets his desk cleared he will loo
into things and see what has happene
during his absence. If he decided
9 make an independent campaign II
4 fact will probably develop before lon