The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-03-01

ed more than 1000 members. made up
almost entirely of businessmen, and
they did great work in the campaign
for Taft. This year. however, the
membership of the Taft club is not
limited TO business men, but is open
to all Republicans. whatever their sta
ton or employment. Therefore, 1t IS
believed by the promoters of the club
that the membership viii run well in
to the thousands. and this will mean a
great deal to the Taft movement. for it
will be made up of Republicans who
are in the fight to stay.
A good political story developed
Wednesday night at the Qualification
meeting which the Taggart Democrats
held at the Denison hotel here to cele-
brate the victory over the Boehne
crowd at the Marion county primaries
on Tuesday. The Taggart crowd whip
ped the life out of the Boehne bunch,
and the defeat had the effect of caus-
ing the Boehne managers to close up
their headquarters in this city and
give up the fight for the nomination
of Boehne for Governor. 1t was the
last straw that broke the camers back.
The tolliication at the hotel was
given by Taggart. Nearly all of the
1873 delegates in the county were pres
ent, along with a number of others,
making a. crowd of probably ESQ in
ALL They sat around long tables in
the big dining room and drank beer.
ate sandwiches and smoked campaign
cigars for abour two hours during
which time a number of speeches were
made. The speakers all lauded Tag
CART for the fine work he had done III
smashing the Boehne boom.
Suddenly Taggart walked into the
dining room arm in arm with Ben
Bosse, of Evansville. the manager of
the Boehne boom. Bosse had been the
one man in the Boehne outfit that had
denounced the Taggart machine with
all the vigor at his command. He did
not mince words in his attacks on
Taggart.
When the assembled Democrats saw
the two men enter they rubbed their
eyes in wonder. They could hardly be-
lieve that the two political foes would
become SO friendly.
Then they got Bosse to make n
speech, in which he said he made his
| fight and lost, and that while he pre-
ferred Boehne for Governor, he would
| be for the nominee of the convention,
no matter who he might be. And he
went further and promised that not
| only he but Boehne would support the
| nominee.
The crowd yelled and cheered. and
| Boose made himself solid with the Tag
| CART machine in a minute. But he did
not realize, evidently, that Taggart had
| Just Slipped one over on him. by get
| ting him into that meeting and having
| him make that speech. 1t was one OF
Taggart's neat little political tricks
Now he has Bosse tied up hard and fast
| to the Taggart machine and with a
promise 10 support Ralston IL nomi-
| mated.
| When the rest of the erstwhile Boeh-
| ne managers heard of Bosses break
they went straight up I'm the air. What
! they said to Bosse was plenty. Al
bert j. veneman. speaker of the hotss
of representatives. and one of the
| Boehne managers, came out in an oper
statement in the papers declaring tina,
Bosse represented only himself in that
/ speech, and saying that he did not be
| lieve Bosse fully realized what he was
doing when he fell into the Taggart
| trap Thus there is dissension in the
| remnants of the Boehne camp. al
caused by one of the smooth tricks o.
| Taggart.