The Washington herald., 1914-06-30
WORD OF CHEER
FOR old PARTY
Charles H. Anthony Predicts
Return Of Hoosier G. o. P.
to Faith"
'MOOSE GOING TO BITS"
Farmer" Tells Gotham's Wise Pro-
gressive Sentiment Is Dwindlins.
Foraker Sure Thing" in Ohio.
By FRANCIS II. GEssNER.

Bg FhANSIS OISSsNEh.
New York, June 2s.-That old remark
about going away from home to get
home news came to mind during the
4 Sunday evening session Of wise men
on the Waldorf roof Indiana had an
/ inning, thanks to the benign presence
of the Hon. Charles II. Anthony, who
| humbly listened while the sizing up Of
! conditions and men in several States
went on. But when Indiana was men
toned the modest citizen of Muncie felt
/ IL was his turn.
| While the Hon. Anthony has hardly
/ figured in politics at home he has kept
| in touch with things around the State
| capital and as an actual farmer knows
the sentiment OF the yeOmanry better
than the political leaders at county
seats. There was lament by a hign-
browed scholastic citizen from the effete
East that old Indiana. proud on the
part OF her emenent statesman at Wash
ington her President Harrison and Vice
| President Fairbanks, Senators like
Morton. Beveridge. Hemenway and House
i leaders like Jim Watson, Overstreet and
/ others should today present the sad
picture to Republicans OF thirteen
Democrats in the House at Washington.
two Democratic Senators and a Demo-
cratic Vice President.
An AEonIIinE Appeal.
will Indiana ever return to the true
faith? was the agonizing appeal Of
the eminent political mourner whose
grief gave the waiter an all-around or
der.
Then it was time for response from
| Brother Anthony. modest farmer and
hishly respected citizen. II was pro-
claimed by Anthony that Indiana was
| promising a return to the Republican
faith. and the promise was most cheer
fully indicated by the farmers in back
| townships VINO are much more agitated
| than usual over what is not being done
by the Democratic Congress and admin
| istration at Washington.
The Anthony observation and personal
contact with the farming contingent of
the Hoosier State convince him Of the
very marked spirit of resentment against
the absolute domination OF State affairs
by Democrats and the solid Democratic
delegation in Congress. augmented in
power this time by a Democratic Vice
President
The conservative Anthony was not
making complaint himself but only tell
ing how he finds a sentiment similar to
that OF 1891 when Indiana was stirred
up against the Cleveland administration
and the Democratic House that came in
with the defeat OF Harrison in 1892. While
Republicans in Indiana. there were
features of the 1894 victory that have
never been duplicated and which have
never been forgotten by veterans in
Hoosier politics To the pIaIk, practical
farmer. Anthony who also happens TO
be a capitalist. there is the same spirit
prevailing in his State this year that
made the election returns Of twenty
years ago gladden. every Republican
in shape for continued Republican rep
resentation in Congress with few set
backs until 1910.
How About Temper.
No attempt was made by Anthony TO
eluCidate. explain, or analyze the present
temper and condition He simply stated
the condition as he finds II day by day,
and back OF II all perceives a resolute
disposition demanding a House delegation
az least evenly divided two years ahead
of the Presidential campaign.
There was a bit of awkward hesitation
in the Anthony answer when some one
familiar with Indiana districts and their
representation at Washington asked the |
Muncie farmer why his own district was
so persistent in sending an amiable Dem |
OCrat, the Hon John 4. NJ. Adair, to |
Congress. The Hon. John has had four /
elections in a district noted in other days |
for sending CrOmer and other Republi- |
cans to the House and Anthony could |
only reply that Adair had many personal |
attractions and qualifications not to men |
tiOn his presidency OF a national bank |
that made him almost as good a Re |
publican. and. in fact, the wonder has /
always been that Adair was not a Re
publican. don't you know.
As a fervent Republican himself |
Brother Anthony would wish. of course. /
for one of the faith to succeed Adair. |
but the outlook this year was not
promising. he had to admit. other |
districts looked better. don't you know.
including the Vincennes district. where
Cullop had such a stiff fight for re-
nomination, and the tenth district up
La Porte way, now represented by
Peterson, a Democrat. and who, by the
way, is like his colleague Adair a bank
president with two banks under his
control. as against the one institution
headed by the suave and courtly Demo-
crat of Portland.
Down ConnerSvIIIc Way.
Down ConnersvilIe way the hopeful
Anthony looks for Finley Gray, second |
term incumbent, to bump up against
something more of a contest than he had
in 1872 when he had 5000 plurality over
the Republican nominee named Risk.
This big plurality loses enect when II
Is told that Gersduf Jansen. the Pro-
gressive candidate, drawing solely from
iIl-advised Republicans, had nearly HOO
votes, and the total of Risk and Jansen
votes would have put Gray in the discard
by over 1000. There will be no such
Progressive vote this year, was the An
thony prediction to the wise coterie in
Gotham last night, and he is no less
hopeful of Indianapolis reverting to its
old habit of sending a Republican to Con-
gress. especially in years of financial
stress and a season of worry for the
who is counted a big factor
in the capital city campaigns
Korbly, the Democratic incumbent, has
won three elections, but the Anthony OBJ
servation recalled that in the 1912 cam
paign Korbly had 2S.9Ol votes as against
nearly 2.o00 cast for the Republican and
nominees Had there been no
splitting up of the G. o. p. voters in
Marian County, Korbly would have been