South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1915-11-18


/ commencing TO simmer, and already
\ Indiana fuel is cracking under the
pot AZ Evansville prominent demo
I cratic Office holders and aspirants TO
! the same and higher posts OF public
/ service gathered in first district love
/ feast. which is one OF a number SEIZED
uled between now and the first OF the
year. when the blaze is expected 10
| be going full blast and the aroma OF
/ the stew" pervading into every nook
/ and corner of the nation.
Gov Samuel Ralston. L. s. Sen
John Kern. Rep. John Adair and
Atty. Gen. Evan Stotsenburg are
among those present" at Evansville.
A political rally was a feature OF
| Wednesdays nights program. Ralston.
4 Kern and Adair spoke. In the after
noon Gov Ralston explained the new
| primary law.
Regarding this new primary law.
\ the Goshen Democrat says:
Because OF the extraordinarily
/ large number OF candidates and the
/ provisions Of the new primary law.
which gives an opportunity TO vote
/ for first and second choice candidates.
| il will be Necessary 20 use the old
Australian system at the primary cleo
ton Tuesday. March I. 1916. as voting
machines are not large enough to hold
all the names. In Elkhart county,
/ however no voting machines are in
/ use.
Although the law under which the
1 Australian ballot is used provides that
I any one precinct shall not have more
, than ESQ voters, commissioners will
attempt 10 bring about some means by
which II will not be necessary TO
change the precincts. IL is probable
/ a resolution will be adopted TO make
| the precincts the same i'm the pri-
maries as they are in the general cleo
ton. Machines can be used at the
general election
And regarding political rallies, Indi-
ana republicans are looking forward
: to the Indianapolis statewide love
feast scheduled for Dec. 29. Says the
Warsaw Daily Times:
IF all the bands, glee clubs and
drum corps that have sent notice of
their intention 10 Toe on hand show up
at the meeting, there will be so much
music and noise that the speakers will
have trouble in making themselves
heard"
Which will make this coming cam
paign opener resemble the Sherman
rally over at Benton HarbOr Mich,
last week. Most OF the guests. how
ever, will no doubt express a prefer
ence for music over rumbling trucks,
pattering feet and chug boat blasts
ON the ship canal
A dispatch from Washington says
| that the real. regular machinery
which will pick and groom the next
republican and democratic candidates
for president will be started in De
cember." Meetings there of the ma
tiOnal committees are pointed TO In
the forecast of systematic activities.
| Chicago, San Francisco and Phila-
delphia will be well represented in the
republican meeting with bids for the
national convention. Dallas st. Louis,
Chicago, Buffalo and Omaha are bid
ders of the democratic gathering.
There will be a difference in the
number OF republican delegates next
year. with 9SS the total, while the
democrats will have 1,0S8. In 19
states, delegations are now chosen by
primaries Dates for the primary
elections are:
Indiana, March Z; Minnesota, March
IA: New Hampshire March IA; North
Dakota, March 21; Michigan, April 3
Wisconsin, New York, Illinois, April
4: Iowa April 10: Nebraska. Oregon,
April IS; Massachusetts, April 20;
Maryland May /: California, Ohio,
! May .; Pennsylvania. May 10; New
Virginia. June g.
Saws the Upton Times:
There is one item of prosperity
which our standpet friends have over
! looked in Indiana. 1t is an absolute
! fact that during the year just closed
| the county treasurers collected a
greater percentage of taxes In the
history Of the state than during any
l r. fraa nd
auditors of Indiana will tell you that
there is less delinquent taxes on the
duplicates now than during any previ-
Gus year for a number of years. This
! fact alone demonstrates that our peO-
pie are more prosperous than they
have been for many years. and are
amply able to pay their debts. public
and private
This is said to have originated in
Goshen
"If all the voters OF Indiana could
listen TO Auditor of State Dale J. Crit
tenberger tell the story of the state
finances, as shown by the public rec
OrdS under republican and democratic
management: if these same voters
could then hear Cong. Adair recount
the progressive achievements in the
legislature. executive and administra-
tive departments OF nation and state
under Pres't Woodrow Wilson and
Gov Ralston. il all these voters could
be SO favored within the next few
months. TO borrow an expression from
one OF the speakers at the splendid
democratic love feast at Connersville. !
there would not be enough republic
ans left in the state in November.
1916 for breeding purposes
AT a meeting of first district pro
gressives with Edwin NJ Lee in Evans
Vile il was virtually decided that :.
ticket Will be put in the field for next
years election.
a telegram has been sent by til
Woman's Franchise league OF tn
thirteenth district To Rep. Henry \
Barnhart. requesting his support q;
the Bristow- Mondell amendment t.
grant equal suffrage