The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1916-11-11
SITUATION
WITHOUT A
PARALLEL
Nice Federal Jobs Tor Indiana
at Mercy of NOn-MaChine
Distributors.
TIMES BUREAU.
AT STATE CAPITAL


INDIANAPOLIS. IND. Nov. IL
Federal patronage in Indiana in the
next four years will be the subject oi
considerable speculation and manipu-
lat;on. according to present indica-
4ions. indiana will have two Repubh-
can senators and nine members OF
congress. while the Democrats VIII
have four members Of congress These
Democrats are George X. Denton q
che First district: w. E Cox, OF the
Third district; Lincoln Dixon. OF the
Fourt district; and H 4. BarnharI q
the Thirteenth district
II i customary for federal plums IN
each district to be distributed on the
recommendations of the congressman
from that district In TINS way tne
congressman controls the patronage
He appointed postmasters and all oth-
ker federal officials and employees -
+fs aistrtct. The senators control the
.,-,o,,,4r,en+ Of those federal employees
who serve the state at large. includ-
ms I-ntted States marshal. internal
-evanue collectors collectors OF GUS
+ors and custodians Of public build
angs Ia, !, -
eca for another four years 1t Is rea-
aonal,le 10 assume that ne VIII not
.sk for recommendations from Re-
,,,,hlican senators for appointments 70
80 high class federal jobs in 9ae
state and that he viii not permit re-
publican congressman to select ap-
pointees for postmaster IN the mn. nlne
districts which they VIII represent
He viii seek his advice and recon- :
ynendations from Democrats
resident wilson and the Indiana
democratic organization are not on
.-ood terms. They have not been
%rIands in the past, and the fact that
+ba Democratic state organization
tai,ad to carry Indiana for Wilson THIS
.,n,a "a not calculated TO create any
- bonds Of friendship between
then Therefore, it is not thought
that Wilson will ask the state or
pantzation to make recommendations
for appointments. for Wilson VIII hol
he under any obligations 70 take care
- anv of the machine politicians
from Indiana If the organization nau
dalivered the vote of Indiana to VII
on the situation would have been
different. 1t could then have insisted
~ reropnition 1t is well known
1,oyaver. that the organization was
moro deeply interested in putting over
t+s state ticket and electin8 Ihomas
Taggart United States senator than j
vas in anything else. and tnat y
sf,nnlv sought to use Wilson's popu-
iaritv and strength in Indiana 70 hell
nut over the state ticket and Iaggart
az course. President Wilson Is aware
Of all this.
therefore. it is not likely that ne
-ril, nav much attention to recon-
mendations from the state machine
edward G. Hoffman. of Fort Wayne
- +ha namocratic national committee
man and Wilson might feel like list
aAinp 10 his recommendation in re
gard to federal patronage We're il not
for the fact that Hoffman's own coun-
" Allen. gave a plurality for Hughe:
Almost an unprecedented occurrence
Ifoffman's prestige with the admins
tration cannot be as strong as i
would have been if Allen county haC
remained Democratic.
II is believed here that Vice Presi-
dent Marshall is the man who viii b'
consulted heavily by the President il
the next four years in regard TO ap
nointments TO the high class fedora
oAices in the state. and that the -four
democratic congressman will divid,
the state into four parts each to con
troll the patronage in one particular
mart of the state. This appears her,
IL be the most likely arrangement
and It is believed that it will be car
ried out
This recalls the situation that exist
ed in the last two years of the term o
Albert ]. Beveridge as senator from
Indiana In those two years ther;
was Republican administration. We
the Democrats had one United State
senator and all of the thirteen con
gressmen from Indiana This mean
that Beveridge had all Of the indiana
patronage in his hands for distribu
tion. a situation that had never befor,
arisen in the country. as far as wa
known at that time.