South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1914-09-02
HICKEY IS NAMED
FOR CONGRESS IN
UNAPPOINTED WAY
G. o. P. Convention Slips Cog in
PreConCeived Plans and Can
didate Accepts Nomination
Without Waiting for Vote.

Whether from a fear on the part OF
the republican organization 10 put II
TO a vote. lest insurgents" in the
ranks Of the delegates rebel; or. that
the convention. including the nominee
himself. was carried away on the
wings OF Col. Charles Arthur Carllsles
eioquence, Andrew Jackson Hickey Of
LapOrte. is the republican candidate
for congress in the 18th distric. at
least nOminally. though the floor OF
the convention has never had its say.
The convention was held at the
Elks' temple Tuesday afternoon. Dist.
Chairman -. Perry Smith Of Warsaw
taking the initiative in bringing order
out Of the chaos created by the no
more than 200 delegates and visitors
that crowded the ground floor
II move you that Judge l.. NJ.
Royce OF Warsaw be the permanent
chairman" shouted Ed. Murphy Of
Rochester. and Murphy having put
this over. drew a TetOrt courteous
from Warsaw that made him the con-
ventiOn secretary.
There was no committee on Gre
dentials; no committee on rules and
order OF business; no committee on
resolutions.
The temporary and permanent
chairmen, plus the secretary. were the
whole show. barring the side-per-
formances furnished by Col. Carlisle
ia nominating Judge Hickey; by
Hickey hurriedly accepting the nOmi-
nation before the chairman had a
chance 10 put IL 10 vote; and. Incl
dentally. by the stem winding Grafton
unfurled by Archibald NJ Hall of In
disnapolis sent hither by State Chair
man Hays.
Machine Plan Slips Cogs.
The cooked and dried formalities
didn't seem TO dissolve as planned at
all. Chairman Royce was either too
fast or too slow at pretty much of
everything When the time came for
all the counties of the district TO give
way 10 st. Joseph in the matter of
naming the candidate for congress.
according to preconceived orders. he
took on such a hurry that only Elk
hart was permitted 20 be heard from.
1T seems to he up to st. Joseph
county he announced Immediately
of the first reel. and Kosciusko. Full
ton, Marshall. Strake and LapOrte
counties were not given a chance to
show their prearranged magnanimity
toward st. Joseph at all
Possibly all the delegates from KOS
sciusko and Fulton counties were on
the platform, and Hickey the only
one from LapOrte, while Marshall and
Starke counties may not have been
esented-rI2king a good excuse
for sidestepping them in the call for
nominations, but anyhow they were
not called.
And with the chairman putting it
up TO II. Joseph. there at once
emerged from the rear of the hall.
the st. Joseph county spokesman. who
put the LapOrte man in nomination
in most eloquent terms
We are going TO win this fall"
= ~ 81. l.. Il -
convention that IL was because they
were going 10 win, and because the
countrys salvation depended upon
their winning, that he was going TO
nominate $50 able a man as Hon
Andrew Jackson Hickey OF LapOrte."
There was as much pandemonium
as 200 people could conveniently Gre
ate and the Hon Andrew Jackson.
apparently mistaking the noise for a
unanimous vote. trotted TO the stage
and spoke his piece of acceptance be-
fore Chairman Royce had even
chance OF asking for a second"
Notices Absence OF Flag.
Which is about all there was TO the
convention aside from the speech by
Mr.. Hall, Indianapolis business man,
whose main point was TO notice the
absence of the American flag when
he got ready To eulogiZe il. and be-
stow upon il a poem that ne had dis
covered when he was travelling
abroad i'm Liverpool The
flag was then sent for but came too
late for display.
Il don't see old Glory around here
anywhere" the speaker interpOlated
the balance of his speech being
largely devoted TO preaching the old
time republican protective tariff. and
bewailng the disaster. poverty. bank
ruptcy and other Calamities asserted
To have been afflicted upon the coun-
try by the democratic change.
IL is unnecessary To recite the argu-
ments One can dig up any repuh-
hcan campaign speech since 1850 and
find the same thing In pretty much
all Of them. For a crack at the pro-
gressives the speaker asserted that
the idea OF a scientific tariff commits
sion had been incorporated in all the
republican platforms of the last 20
years. but he didn't tell why the
parts. though i'm control Of both
houses had failed 70 provide such a
commission up 20 the very last min
ute. and then only as an excuse for
warding of for a few years any tink-
ering with the Payne-AldriCh law.
AR. Halls method Of coaXing the
progressives back was by constantly
slamming them in the nose. eX-Sen.
Beveridge. and other leaders being
continuously held up TO ridicule as
suffering from a 'befuddiement Of the
brain. and speaking as IL from
tower OF Babel"
OF course. the democrats were the
main targets for the speakers shafts.
realizing as all republicans do that