South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-01-05
Political Gossip

III Political Gossip H
That the bull moose kaleidoscope
has been working over time Of late
and that state or national board
OF censors will be called upon tC
make a few cut-outs before the first
exhibition is made March Z, is the
opinion jumping here and there
about Indiana. The most picturesque
of scenes in the Eoosier reel seems
10 be those in which J. Frank Hanly,
Edwin NJ Lee s,a1 4ckson Boyd are
featured.
Hanly. ex-g aor OF Indiana, and
an enthc~'' d-y worker who
sought to n third. fourth or
fifth party f. the prohibition
cause follow lie Cmni-partisan
meeting held ne state capital
few weeks az as sought by Lee,
progressive st, chairman, as a
candidate for GOVERNOR Hanly &C
'cepted. providing certain planks
were withdrawn from the bull moose
platform. and Lee did some accept
ing in turn, apparently without the
sanction OF other influential party
members. including Jackson Boyd OF
Greencastle. ex-chairman OF the
Indiana moose, who. he himself says,
was kicked out by the Lee faction
following the dropping Of a $4,000
campaign fund in the Indiana pool
by one George w. Perkins.
Boyd has stepped to the plate and
his first try at the progressive politi-
cal ball seems to be in the nature of
a homer. He says prohibition is not
a partisan matter. and holds this
theory is given by all thinking peo-
pie interested in the subject Then
he says:
MIR. Hanly wants it otherwise, and
if he can not get the temperance
people to indorse him he can get
the unthinking progressive organiza-
ton. But the party, as whole. will
never sanction ]. Frank Hanly as
candidate on any such platform.
This question was up in the last
state convention, and it was fought
all night and until o'clock the
next day and was defeated And it
will be defeated again, if not in the
committee. then on the floor Of the
state convention. We are not a one
man party, prohibition party, or
party to be put on the tail of any
mans kite. The idea of allowing any
man to dictate to the progressive
party what our platform shall be!
The idea of betraying our funda-
mental principles for a candidate re-
jected by the temperance people of
Indiana. How low has the progress
sive party sunk? Had this matter
been promptly managed, there would
have been many strong men, men
stronger than Mr.. Hanly. men with
many ideas. not one. and it wrong in
method, who would have taken the
nomination. Put any man up, it
makes no difference whom, princi-
pies are what we are voting for,
what we stand for.
II am against Hanly. I am against
any state organization that will try
TO betray the party into the hands
of any other party. l am first and
last and always for our platform as
adopted by the state and nation and
away with any men or set of men
who try to set it aside
william Dudley Foulke withdrew
from the race for United States SEN
ator on the progressive ticket follow
ing Hanly's adoption by and Of the
party. Albert J. Beveridge has writ
ten Lee to the effect his name. now
under consideration, is TO be placed
on the Indiana primary ballot as a
candidate for president. Just the
meaning Of this attitude on the part
of Albert J. is yet to be uncorked.
but the Hanly deal is pointed to
with vengeance.
MoOsers over the state have risen.
some in ire, some enthused by the
prospects of having Hanly at the
head of their ticket. +. c. Toner.
eX-progressive chairman. and
gone back to the ranks" person.
pans the Hanly-Lee faction in his
Anderson newspaper. Richmond took
little interest in the Hanly announce
ment. Reports from Wayne county
are to the effect organization there
will be dissolved, Hanly or anyone
else. Even the prohibitionists are
skeptical of the alliance. They will
wait and see"
In a proclamation breathing the
spirit Of Cancellation and providing
for procedure designed to prevent
a repetition of the tragedy of 1912.
the republican national committee
has issued the call for the republican
convention at Chicago June Z.
An invitation 10 the progressives
10 return to the fold of the old party
is found in this language: The re-
publican electors o the several states
and the District of Columbia. Alaska.
Hawaii. Porto Rico and the Philip