The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-10-17


others of the Beverage leaders have
announced themselves as being in favor
OF Taffs re-nominotion.
All of this, of course, is encouraging
to the republicans and their prospects
in the coming campaign. for it shows
that whichever else the various kinds
of republicans may split on they are
united in Indiana for Taft.
It is well known that Jim Watson
does not like the policies of President
Taft any more than the insurgents like
them, but he is taking the lead In the
effort to bring the Indiana republicans
together for his re-nomina ton. Joe
Cannon is bitterly opposed to many of
the policies OF the president, and yet
he stood on the platform at the Rush
Vile meeting and announced that he
was for Taft for denomination. 1t Is
pointed out that il Jim Watson and Joe
Cannon are willing to lay aside their
own views and line UP with Taft it
ought not TO be very difficult for any
of the other republicans to do the
same. This is taken to be a long step
in the direction of a harmonious get
ting together of the republicans. but
the trouble Is that at the Rushville
meeting a good many republicans talk
ed harmony and undertook to bury the
Ratchet, but some of them buried their
hatchets with the handles sticking up
and within handy reach. This kind of
harmony will not accomplish anything
and it remains to be seen whether the
real effect of the Rushville meeting will
amount to anything permanently.
Not a word was said by anybody
about local issues or state issues. Not
a single word was said about the IL
auor question. Rushville has saloons
| and has Newcastle. In Rushville
| they have an ordinance that prohibits
| the use of window screens, and all of
The saloons are run wide open, just the
same as any other store. In fact they
are more open. because they don't fill
their windows with goods and shut off
the view. Rushville was dry for sew
eral years. In Newcastle they run their
saloons in the old-fashioned way. But
/ in neither place was there a single
mention of the liquor issue in politics
as far as could be learned
| 1t seemed to be taken for granted
that the next campaign will be fought
| out as a national campaign and that
| local issues viii not be taken in. Ev-
| erybody realizes that the liquor issue
Is loaded with dynamite. although there
are some of the republicans who insis
that there are not as many dry demo
| Gratis in the state as there are of we
| republicans
1t is doubtful if such a meeting a!
this one could have been pulled off ii
| any other county in the state than a
| Nashville. Jim Watson said that as TIN
last republican candidate for governor
and realizing the split UP condition o
the party, he felt that it was up to hin
1
bring the republicans into line again
and that this was the reason why h
arranged the meeting and invited Vic
President sherman and Joe Cannon t
attend 3 his guests. Every body know
that Watson is a jolly fellow, and goo
, company. and when the invitation
were issued the recipients fell owe
each other to accept. they kne'
they would have a good time.
! OF course, while they were at Rush
VILE and under the spell of the excit
/ ing situation the republicans from a.
over the state felt like the party coul
win easily. Nothing could stand agains
such enthusiasm as was displaye
, there, they thought Now, If they too
5 that same enthusiasm home with theI
and can retain 1t and keep it up to tn
same white heat from now until tn
. | next election it will amount to some
$ thing. otherwise 1T will not
6 Jim Watson is nothing If not a fight
2 er. He has been a fighter all of h
p life. and many people admire him &c
| his good old fashioned fighting quail
, | ties. And he showed his mettle in
| speech at Newcastle Wednesday. 1t
, | well remembered that most OF Watson
| political trouble have originated
: | Wayne county. and especially in Ricf
| mond which is now the strongest In
! surgent county in the state. In Wayr
! | county the republicans some year
ago took a dislike to Watson. and the
made life a misery for him during til
last years of his official career Wa
son fought them to a standstiN. n
came to hate Wayne county as much 6
? | Wayne county dfsliked him. And
poured out his real feeling at New
lcastfe when he said of Wayne count.