The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-03-14
S HEARST
BEHIND
MARSHALL
TIMES BUREAU,
AT STATE CAPITAL.

~ VI VEAL,
AT STATE CAPITAL
indianapolis. Ind. March 1.-THE
mystery of the Thomas r. Marshall
boom for the democratic nomination for
president, if there is any mystery about
il, has been solved by the discovery of
the person who is responsible for the
sudden appearance OF the Marshall but
tons in Indiana. 1t was during the
session of the legislature that some of
the democratic senators and representa-
tives blossomed forth one day wearing
little white buttons bearing in red let
tiers: For President Thomas r. Mar
shall. For Me- They We're asked
where they got the buttons. but none
of them would could tell. II they
knew they wouldn't tell. They said
they didn't know. Some fellow just
gave them 20 them.
But a day or two later Col William
G. Lilier, young democrat who came
here. It is said. from New York a few
years ago. came out in the open and
admitted that he was the man who was
distributing the buttons. He said he
had ten thousand of them and that
there would be barrels more when they
We're needed. He didn't tell where he
got the buttons, however. All there was
TO ii was that he had them that he
was giving them away and that the
democrats we're wearing them.
Liller has always been understood
to be part of the Hearst machine. 1t
is said that when he came to Indiana
to take a hand In politics 1t was as a
Hearst representative in the interest of
the Hearst independence league. He
scattered the Hearst doctrine and made
few converts. Then he went straight
into democratic politics and has been
working like a true democrat ever
since. Two years ago he worked up
and pulled off the biggest democratic
banquet ever held in the state of Indi-
ana, If not in the middle west. He is
the secretary of the National League of
Democratic Clubs, which numbers
among its members and officers prac-
and United States senators in the coun-
try. and many of the democratic con-
gressmen. Governor Marshall, Govern
or Harmon, Governor Woodrow Wilson
. Governor Shafroth and the rest of the
democratic governors are members OF
his organization. Then there is ChamI
Clark. the democratic speaker of the
next house OF representatives: Con
gresham Ollie James of Kentucky ano
divers and sundry other big democrat:
| in the ranks
| Iiller is arranging for another bis
/ Jefferson day banquet in this city or
April IA. and If his plans carry through
all right it will outshine even the one
| of two years ago He has received let
| tiers of acceptance from several demo
/ cratic governors. among them beins
| Governor Wilson of New Jersey, wis
| says in his letter that ne will surely b,
! present. OF course, Governor Marshal
i will be there, too, and it will add t
/ the gayety of nations to see these tw,
democratic governors, both candidate
] for the presidential nomination. sittin:
at the same banquet table, eating of tn
same bread. each making speech alon,
| different line. and each working alonl
his own line for the plum that will fal
TO some one next year. Liller says h
will have hundreds of big democrat
! here from all over the country.
But about the Marshall buttons TIL
i fact that Liller is the man that brough
them out is taken to mean that 1T is
| Hearst scheme. but whether it is
scheme to help or hinder Governo
| Marshall as a candidate Is still tn
question 1t is not believed that TIL
support OF Hearst WOutu 90 MdTSfld
any good 1t would not do any ma
any good as a candidate. On the 9th
er hand, politicians believe that tn
candidate that gets the support o
/. Hearst and his outfit will lose out, 70
!, Hearst and his isms have long sine
! been discredited by the people, and pc
litics do not believe the people will eve
II turn around and flock under the Hears
banner
good many people are of the opin
! ion that the Hearst support is give
for the express purpose of injurin
Governor Marshalls chance for tn
nomination. No one believes that tn
governor would seek the help of Hears
if he were active candidate for tn
nomination. which he says he is no
. Governor Marshall claims to be n
politician, but he is far too clever
. politician to seek any kind of ALI
ance with Hearst in the hope that
would do him any good.
s OF course, the story that the Maj
shall buttons emanated from Hears
source may have been started by som