South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1918-03-24
Democrats of State Plan
for Big Primary May z
GTeahouse State Chairman Says Party Proposes Do Thing
May Publish Democratic Paper in IndanapoiS-See
Wisconsin Result With Interest

daily provided the encouragement
is such as 10 warrant such a move
T. The suggestion contained i'm the
last issue of the Saturday Evening
Post that Sen. James r. Watson has
TO hear the slightest rumbling call
ing him TO accept the republican
nomination for president has caused
variety of emotions in Indiana
Among most of the people the arti-
Gle stirred up a bit of humor. for
they regard the Watson talk as
joke of the most enjoyable type.
But there are some repu blicans who
fairly frOth at the mouth every time
they hear Watson mentioned for
president This is the element that
is for Gov Goodrich for the nomi-
nation for president. Some people
think they are for Goodrich for
president about as they were for
Charles w. Fairbanks for president
at the Chicago convention in 1916;
with their fingers crossed.
There is a sharp distinction be-
tween the Watson republicans and
the Goodrich Hays republicans in
Indiana. They are almost as far
publicans, and there is little likeli-
hood of their getting together
Inasmuch as Goodrich and Hays
control the state organiza ton and
are i'm position TO run the party in
their own way it is easy to see that
Watson has a fat chance of get
ting anywhere with his presidential
aspirations in this state
Some Of the republican papers in
the state are misrepresenting the
democratic state chairman. which he
made at the recent banquet Of the
Democratic Editorial association.
They say that in his speech Great
house said the democratic party did
not want the German vote. Great
house did not say anything of the
KIND. What he did say was that
the democratic party did not want
the pro- @ erman and disloyal vote
There is a vast difference between
"the German vote" and the pro
German and disloyal vote
Greathouse stands pat on his
original declaration, but he SAYS he
does not propose that the republic
can papers shall misquote him and
put him in false light.
There appears 10 be a decided ef-
fort TO defeat Congressman W. f.
Cox of the third district for the
/ democratic denomination for con-
/ gress this year. Jacob l.. O'Bannon
of Corydon and Samuel B. Wells Of
I Scottsburg. have filed declarations
with the secretary Of state that they
are candidates for the nomination
against Cox. O'Bannon is a Corydon
I business man and Wells publishes
"a democratic paper at Scottsburg.
/ Wells was a member of the house
/ of representatives in the legislature
I few years ago. The fight against
\ Cox is said 10 bark back TO the OLD
DAYS Of the Cox-Zenor feud i'm the
/ third district WHICH eliminated in
/ 1906 in Cox defeating Congressman
I Zenor for denomination after Zenor
/ lad served 10 years in congress.
/ Indiana democrats are pointing
\ out the interesting political situation
I that has developed in Wisconsin as
a result OF the republican primaries
for the nomination OF a candidate
for United States senator. Lenroot
was nominated but a fraction over
+ so per cent OF the republican votes.
and Thompson. the La Toilette can
didate. who was defeated. got near
Is so per cent Of the republican
votes OF the state IL was a square
toed contest between the loyal and
disloyal elements OF the republican
party in Wisconsin, and the disloyal
/ element came near 10 winning out.
In view OF the fact that Indiana
democrats have been charging that
the republicans were playing for
the pro German vote In this state