The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-08-05
FLOCK TO CAPITAL
FOR CONVENTION
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which each district will elect members
of the various committees. vice
president and an assistant secretary of
the convention. Immediately after
these district meetings the committees
on credentials, rules and organization
and resolutions Will meet and prepare
their reports and have them ready for
presentation at the convention tomor-
row.
The committee on credentials prob
ably will not have any bushes sto at
tend to unless some one questions tho
, right of certain delegates to sit in the
convention In one or two counties
IL has been reported that Roosevelt
men have been elected as delegates to
this convention. and that their seats
may be contested on the ground that
they are not Republicans but members
Of the Bull Moose party. 1t was re-
ported some time ago that the Bull
adopt this course and under take the
elect of some of their own followers
under the guise of Republicans and
send them to the convention for the
purpose of raising a disturbance and
yelling for Roosevelt on the floor
Whether this plan really will be car
ried out is question. but the Repub-
lcans are arranging to squelch any
thing of the kind IL 1t appears
In some places, however, where tina
Bull Moose tried this plan it failed to
work Upton county furnished a
notable case OF this Kind. At the
primaries In Upton last Friday the
Bull Moose presented a slate OF dele
gates-on which were three Taft men
and three Roosevelt men. A square
issue thus was presented. and the Taft
men out-yoted the Bull Moose more
than three to one and elected six Taft
men to the state convention. And Tip
ton county has been one of the hotbeds
of Bull Mooseism. This incident is
take as an indication that the Bull
Moose sentiment In Upton is dying out
and that 1t is not strong as has been
reported.
The resolutions committee will have
the hard job OF the convention. A
large humber of planks have been
proposed by many persons and all
have been turned over to James p.
Goodrich, which has arranged them
for presentation to the committee, of
which he, probably will be the chair
man. That the platform will contain a
plain. unornamented and unequivocal
declaration for county local option is
now well settled because the demand
has come from all over the state for
such plank. Another plank that is
sure of going into the platform Is one
in favor of a public utilities commits
sion. The platform also will declare
for a workmen's compensation law
These probably will be the principal
planks in the platform, but there will
be a number of others, all of which
will appeal to the common people and
to the taxpayers.
1t is expected that the convention
will finish it's work before night
There will be continuous session
from the time the convention opens
until everything is done.
Interest is somewhat divided here
today between the Republican state
convention and the Bull Moose ma.
tiona1 convention and the Bull Moose
national convention at Chicago. A
number of indianapolis people have
gone to Chicago and word from over
the state says that a good many from
other places have gone. Edwin NJ
Lee. Bull Moose state chairman, has
reserved sixteen rooms at the Black
stone hotel for the Indiana delegates
to the convention.