South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-08-14
Bean Dinners G. O. P. Dope for
Indiana Voters-And Democrats
SnnLingLy Promise Green Corn
Situation Shaping Itself al
State Capital For Hot Cam
9aign With Heaps of
Noise and Some Mud.
News Times Special Service /:

News Times Special Service:
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. rug. ~
Bean-dinner politics just now
seems 10 hold the center Of the stage
in Indiana-with the Republicans
playing this brand with a vengeance
They started quite while ago. with
"burgOo" feast and barbecue at
West Baden and they've kept it
up. and maybe are planning more.
Now bean-dinner politics is the ref
uge Of the party that has plenty of
mOney-but not many issues, there
fore no one need worry about the
results of the dinners that
have been the piece dc resistance
of the republican party leaders in
several parts of the state.
They're going on the old theory
that II they fill the stomach Of the
voters. the votersll vote the way
they say" is the way an eX-Bull
Mooser describes the new-old brand
of politics that is causing no little
amount OF amusement here just now.
And il is a salient fact that there is
little real campaign fireworks of the
old-fashioned brand evident in In
diana just now. although plenty is
promised. There are mighty few
republican orators securing the
state with burning tongues Of at
ack against the democrats. There
was much more attacking of the
democrats a year ago. when nothing
was at stake. Just now James p.
Goodrich and other leaders are hur-
rying about the state. fixing orga-
nization fences and presiding at
bean dinners. while any real cam
paign issues on which an idea of
what he is voting for might be OBJ
tanned by the voter. seemingly are
nil
Democrats Propose sequel.
And that's why one facetious dem
ocrat. who is well known 10 state
and county leaders everywhere, is
/ seriously planning TO offset the bean
dinner politics of the republicans
I'm in favor of fixing them" he
said today. I'm in favor OF collect
ing a big campaign fund right now.
Make 'er as big as you can. I'll
do my little bit towards it. Then
Wen rat six carloads of green corn
its .--een corn season now-and
Wen get four thousand pounds OF
I Cav valley butter and a hundred
tons of rocksalt-and Wen go down
10 Shelbyville or some other river
town and throw the biggest stom-
ach-teaser that the state of Indiana
I SO hg
Wen ill their stomachs with some
thing that can't be compared with
mere prosaic beans. m for the
corn-fed voter"
Which leads TO the real opening
of the Indiana campaign. With
| Charles r. Hughes well into the
thick % what apparently is TO be a
continual harangue of word-attacks
on Pres't Wilson and with the pres
ident preparing for a journey 20 the
I coast in the near future to make one
/ OF his characteristic logic" cam
paigns. with dozens of republican
and democratic and prohibition and
socialist and whatnOt orators al
/ ready memorizing reams upon reams
/ of campaign shrapnel-what chance
I is there 10 be for the poor newspa-
pers. already up TO their last back
| pocket with the high cost of print
paper That's the way the cam
paign looks in Indiana just now
/ There is a good deal Of the hurry
and scurry in the various political
I camps here that was evident wher
the Indiana national guard came
rolling into TT. Benjamin Harrison
some of the men equipped, some ig-
norant of warfare. or its require
/ ments. some healthful, some dis
! eased. some with dependents a
home and some without. There wa:
little organization. little definite aim
apparently. and many. many mis-
takes made. Gradually the whole
problem Strengthened out. however
and where there had been chaos be
fore. gradually a piece of an army
emerged
same i'm Indiana Politics.
IL is the same with Indiana pol
itics just now. Everybody is pre-
pairing. Everybody is committing
/ speeches TO memory. Everybody il
developing charges and counter
/ Gndl EtS. mere II a spun VI NAA'
( weI-known unrest that always
I characterizes the August of a pres
idential campaign in Indiana. sep
TENDER will bring it's offerings L
the state about the time that sun
dry gentlemen begin 10 call eacl
other everything in the lexicon o
political epithets. Hughes alread.
has started the fire in a natiOna
way and Mr. william Jenning
Bryan and some others alread,
have begun 10 answer. But in In
diana the bushes are not yet afiame
The mbardment is due August 1
when John a. NJ. Adair. democrati
candidate for the governorship
opens at Fort Wayne. From tina
time on the curtain o. fire. at Yer
dun and along the western theate
i'm Europe will become mere pass
ing OF the time OF day 10 HoOsiers-
who love politics. first last and eve
lin war time-and the good. old bark
ing of the vote-dogS will ring out O
the day and night air from thou
sand Indiana platforms. Men Wi
be painted blacker than the littl
card that always wins the side bel
Plots will thicken until they can b
stirred no more The noise of tn
. unseen dollar viii De heard i'm tn