South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-09-18

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/ He says that everybody will man
age 10 exist someway. regardless Of
what party is successful in the CAM
paign and that however the fght
goes. ne will be az happy IA usual.
! He believes, however that Woodrow
Wilson who has not walked where
the path has led. but who has walk
ed where there was no path. and
I who has left "A trail" will not be
turned down by the American pub
\ lie
To Campaign Together.
Sen. Thomas Taggart is ready TO
/ begin the campaign. He has given
/ on. statements here In which he
ssays he will not be a speech maker
during the fight, but will travel with
Sen. Kern holding his manuscript
\ for him" This, apparently. has set
at rest the statements that have
+ been made recently to the effect that
! little love really is lost between Tag
CART and Kern.
J Talk of a deal" whereby the cleo
ton Of Taggart and Harry S. New.
republican candidate for the long
term senatorship, would be put
over" has been going about under
meath the surface here for weeks.
Democrats. who always have ad-
( hered TO the Taggart control in In
diana have been quoted az being
ready TO knife" Kern. The re, ap-
| parently. is not the least basis for
these assertions. Taggart. as such
time as this, is not the man TO
| lead any such inferno sire strife and
ne. on the other hand. will be the
first 10 put a stop 10 any such talk
If it reaches his ears with any degree
of authenticity.
Reports from precinct commit
teemen OF each party already are
| being received at headquarters here
but they are being kept secret be
hind the curtains" with vengeance.
The published reports that come in
remind those. who watch politics in
Indiana. of the war bulletins, eman-
ating from the rival camps across
the sea. whatever the nature or
the extent of the fight, each side is
winning the battle handily-
Ralston and Lee Ccnsg..
A mysterious conference was
held this week between Gov. Sam
uel NJ Ralston and Edwin NJ. Lee.
who still holds the reins of the rem
nants of the progressive party in
Indiana, from the self-consttuted
vantage ground of the state chair
manship of the party. Lee appeared
at the governors office apparently
for no other purpose than to talk
politics. In fact the governor said.
following the conference, that they
had discussed politics together. The
governor said Lee had told him that
in the counties where recently the
progressive tickets have resigned il
is the intention of the progressive
state organization TO place new tick
cts in the field
Just why Lee should make this
statement TO the governor is not
known, for il now is pretty general
~ accepted that the best thing that
could happen to the remaining
progressives from a democratic
standpoint would be the withdrawal
OF the entire state ticket and all of
the county tickets. The pTogressives
that still remain in the party are of
such individual beliefs that they
would-almost TO a raan-vote the
democratic ticket if they were re-
leased from their own allegiance
now IL is firmly believed.
And so folks are guessing what is
in the air that Gov. RalstOn and Mr..
Lee should have such a "chinning
match over politics.
speech Makes Big Hit.
Prest wilson's speech of accept
ance. in which he placed many a
stabbing finger on the sore spots" in
the campaign OF Charles E. Hughes,
has attracted wide attention in In
diana. Mr.. Wilson's specific refer
ences TO the various groups of
'stand-pat" republicans, in the con-
gress and out, who are being pressed
70 the front OF the Hughes campaign
/ throughout the country, only served
/ to accentuate the criticism of the
Hughes campaign that already had
been eXtant in this state. II had
been pointed out before that the re-
/ publican organization appare entity
/ mad deliberately Haunted "a red flag
/ in the faces of the progressives and
/ others, who long ago had voiced
their adverse sentiments regarding
such "old guard" leaders as Jim
1 Hemenway. Harry New. jim Wat
son, Tobe Hert, Boise Penrose. Muir
ray Crane, and the host of lesser
lights in practically every state in
+ the union, who have stood in the
past for such disagree able ''isms"
as Cannonism. Newism, standpatism,
and tight organism"
Mt. Wilson's reference. 20 this
condition of affairs in the Hughes
camp was ably seconded in the ad-
dress of Vice Pres't Marshall, de-
/ livered here. In his characteristic
manner Mr. Marshall told this story
I over again by declaring that the re-
publican party, instead of keeping
to the open road, had made use of a
squirrel track, known only To the
few and that the party. instead of
being the vehicle of the people in
this country had become the vehicle
of the few leaders, who could live
but not live well-out of Office
From this time forward the big
guns will boom throughout Indiana.