The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1912-07-01
TIMES BUREAU.
AT STATE CAPITAL.


Indianapolis, Ind, July IA re-
port has been put In circulation here
to the effect that $4,000 red bandana
handkerchiefs have been put In stor-
age here for use by the members of the
New Roosevelt party. IL the party ever
gets started in Indiana 1t is believed.
however. either that the entire story is
grape vine or that the number of
handkerchiefs is largely exaggerated.
1t is believed that somebody started
the story as a joke, but some of the
Roosevelt supporters are telling it for
fact and are insisting that it is true.
Where the $4,000 bandanas came
from no one seems TO know. and none
OF the Roosevelt fellows will tell where
they are hidden. Nor do they tell who
paid for them. Red bandanas cannot
be bought for less hAhan FIVE cents n
piece, and $4,000 would cost sl,40o.
That is regarded here as at least a
plenty of bandanas but the question
is who paid for them !.
The red bandana was decided on as
the emblem of the Roosevelt third
party movement at Chicago, and 1t is
proposed to have every member of the
new party carry red bandana. 1t is
reported here that in some towns in
the state ardent supporters OF Roo5e-
Welt already are carrying the bandanas.
some OF them even wearing them
around their coat sleeves.
No date has ben set for the meeting
of Roosevelt people here to discuss the
advisability OF organizing the new
party in this state. 1t was expected
that the conference would be held this
week. but 1t was postponed in order
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Democrats were going to do at Balti-
more. There has been an Impression
that IL the Democrats would nominate
a progressive ticket and adopt a pro-
gressive platform at Baltimore the
Roosevelt party would never be born.
because the Democratic party would
AFFORD the Roosevelt Republicans a
place to light without organizing a
new party. And now that they know
the Baltimore result It will be inter-
esting to see just what they Will do
from now
One interesting development in the
last day or two comes from the meet
ing held here of the county option Re-
publicans. About fifty of the leaders
in the county option movement attend
ed the conference and decided that
there should be no split in the Repub-
lican party. They said that a split at
this time would endanger the success
OF the county option movement and
might kill it's chance of success. They
said they felt that they would be able
to get county option plank into the
Republican state platform, and that
they did not want to injure those
chances by favoring a split in the
party. The county option Republicans
are going right ahead with their plan
of trying to help nominate candidates
for the legislature who will vote for
the passage of county option bill,
and they are also seeking TO elect dele
gates to the Republican state conven-
ton who Will favor a plank of that
kind.
There is one thing about the Demo-
cratic situation that makes things
look like cleaner politics in Indiana
from now on, at least in the Demo-
cratic party, and that is that Tom Tag
CART has made himself so unpopular
with the rank and file Of the progress
sive element that he will be a long
time getting back into the good graces
of his party. Indiana Democracy is a
progressive body, and everybody has
known that, but the organization fell
under the sway of Taggart and his
crowd of reactionaries and they have
been running the party. But at Balti-
more Taggart was now able to keep
all of the Indiana delegates in line. In
spite of their positive instructions as
to the course they were to pursue. and
In spite of the sblacksnake whip which