South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-12-17

Political GOSSIP

That there will be a happy we'd
ding in the same court which wit
messed its divorce in 1912. is the
picture being presented by cartoon
lists who have found a muse in the
Chicago convention OF the republic
an party, June Z, 1916. After four
years Of determined and aggressive
cOurtship, the ringmasters Of the &.
o. p. political show see a fusion OF
the rings and a great two-circle at
traction where three were 10 be
seen before. There are the side
shows. but the big tent is the at
traction at this time.
OF course. there are those pro-
gressive wielders of the artistic pen
who boomerang a bit by depicting a
shabby and much bandaged elephant
waiting at the church.
Throwing his support to the can
didacy of Harry :. New, Walter
Olds OF Fort Wayne has withdrawn
from the republican contest for the
nomination for United States sena-
tor from Indiana.
You're a saloonkeeper, aren't
you? ," asked an Indianapolis barber
of a portly patron Thursday
mo" replied the chairs Occu-
pant.
Seems TO me I've shaved YOU be-
fore" continued the barber, but the
customer replied firmly in the mega
tive.
Then some one told the barber
that his portly patron was only Gov.
Ralston.
Homer Hazen, editor OF the Boone
Vile Enquirer. and Mayor Bosse of
Evansville, have been mentioned as
possible candidates for the demo-
cratic congressional nomination
from the first district, following the
announcement of Rep. Charles Lieb
of Elkport. that he would not again
be a candidate.
That Illinois is for sherman and
that the middle west is for prepared
ness, was the crux of Mayor William
Hale Thompson's message to New
Workers on his return from the cap
ital and the recent meeting Of the
republican national committee.
CAS- indicated in this news service
a year ago, there will likely be four
voluntary retirements from congress
by members of the Indiana delesa-
ton at the end of his term. Adair
and Morrison are already out with
such announcements that there will
be two more in the near future"
says a Washington dispatch. With
Charles Lieb of Export a third.
considerable speculation arises as to
the fourth.
Ninth district democrats are
boosting Perry Rule of jackson
township for the congressional NOM
ination. Rule is joint representative
in the state legislature Of Carroll,
Howard and Miami counties. The
report comes from Delphi.
According TO an indianapolis dis
patch, ]. w. Harrison of AttiCa is
being doomed for the democratic
gubernatorial nomination. J. Kirby
Risk is said to be the man he is
after. The same dispatch carries
the rumor that Risk Will withdraw
from the race, and a statement from
Frank Daley that he is not a candi-
date for the governorship.
Il have a political intention" says
Daley, and it is to stay out of poll
tics"
Daley Thursday sent to Washing
ton his resignation from the district
attorneysb.p.
Revival OF the Wide Awakes," a
political organization which did
much for Abraham Lincoln during
his race for the presidency, is the
plan Of Lawrence Y. Sherman cam
paign managers The whole coun-
try is 10 be made acquainted with
the man who looks like Lincoln"
by this organization. William ].
Calhoun. United States minister TO
China during the Taft administra-
ton. has been chosen to nominate
Sherman in the republican conven-
ton June z.
John +. Devine. jr. a member OF
the Howell, Jones x Devine law
firm, is being sought as a primary
candidate for either the prosecutor
ship or the joint senatorship by St
Joseph county republicans