The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-07-29
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MACHINE RELATED
Interesting Indiana Political
Expose Made by the Chi
cago Tribune.

Inc CulCdSO lTlDuue WHICH, HdS q
reputation for uncovering and expos
ing great political conspiracies and
which was one of the first of the great
city newspapers to show up the fraud
of the Republican National convention.
is just now giving Indiana politics
looking into with the result that it has
provided it's readers today with some
very good and seasonable reading.
Much of the revelations of the Trib-
une are known to many Indiana Re-
publicans and especially to those of
Wayne county Both the Democratic
ing the destinies of Taft in Hoosier-
dom are given attention. In part the
Tribune's staff correspondent who is
touring the state says:
Political rings, operating separately
or jointly as the occasion demanded,
have ruled in Indiana for sixteen
years.
Thomas Taggart, erstwhile restaura-
teur, hotel keeper, owner of French
Lick Springs, "America's Monte Car
TO-" and for long time national COM
mitteeman, is the Democratic boss.
Joseph B. Healing, corporation coun-
sci of Indianapolis and former United
States district attorney, is the chief
Republican manipulation.
TON" Taggart, to quote conserva
tive citizen of the Hoosier capital,
owns the statehouse" Kealing's title
to the city hall is alike undisputed.
Friends of Governor Thomas r.
Marshall, Democratic nominee for
vice-president, doubtless will resent
the statement that a string runs from
the chief executives Office to Tag.
CARTS French Lick hotel, but it is a
conceded fact that Taggart elected
Marshall governor and is his close po
litical adviser.
While Taggart is pretty nearly the
whole show in the Indiana Democratic
camp, Healing has a formidable array
of associates in the Republican ma
chine. They are:
Former Vice President Charles w
Fairbanks, former United States Sena
tor James A. Hemenway, Capt. Harry
S. New, until recently the Republican
national committeeman; former Con
gresham James E. Watson and James
P. Goodrich, who succeeded Capt. New
on the national committee.
Mr.. Watson, who while in congress
was known as Uncle Joe" Cannon s
light bower and was appointed by Can
acn as the Republican whip of the
IT,
mixed it" with Gov. Hadley in frequ
ent debates Mr. Hemenway presented
more than one Taft contest argument
to the convention.
Indiana did more than any other
state to beat Roosevelt" boosted one
of the Healing crowd. "In the first
place, we took Indiana from him, and
in the second place we cut some figure
in putting Taft over"
James P. Goodrich of Winchester is
expected to share the party leadership
with Healing in the Republican camp
during the coming campaign. Party
management is not mystery to Capt
News successor on the national com
mittee. He has long been connected
with the old machine. He is rated as
enormously wealthy, as are most o.
the political leaders of both parties.
Goodrich was chairman of the Re
/ publican state committee for years
He got his financial start, it is said
as receiver Of the c., G. & L. railroad
now the Chesapeake and Ohio. He i:
interested in the Winchester Light
Heat and Power company, Jefferson
vile Water company, also water com