Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-22

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Petitions to place the name OF Leonard
Wood on the ballot are now being cir
culated, with every prospect of obtaining
two signatures for every one that Good
rich obtains.
One hundred and fifty names were at
tached to a Wood petition yesterday at
the Columbia and Marion clubs. The pc
tition was circulated in the dining room
at the Columbia club while Gov Good
rich was taking lunch there, and 1t was
signed by every guest at the table next
to that occupied by Goodrich. Among
those who signed it we're men high In
the Goodrich state administration. men
connected with the Marion county govern
ment and men who hold office under
Mayor Jewett. These names were sprin-
kIed among a large number of the names
of active and prominent business men or
indianapolis.
DOwN-sTATE G. O. P.
JOINS "ANTI' FORCES.
While this petition was being circu-
lated at the Columbia club a delegation
Of republicans from New Albany came TO
Indianapolis and went into conference
with some anti Goodrich leaders in this
city After the conference they an r.
nonnced their inteition Of circulating In
New Albany and vicinity protest
against permitting the name of GOV
Goodrich to go on the republican oallo'
They asserted that for every name that
Goodrich obtained in their part of the
state they would produce two protestants
against giving him consideration Tor the
presidency.
:. Iucius O. Hamilton, former president
of the Columbia club and prominent
and lifelong republican of Indianapolis
said today.
"Gen. woods petition will be filed
without delay or difficulty. We can
get more than the 500 names necessary
from the republicans who gather at the
Columbia and Marion clubs, and we
won't have to beg anybody to sign It,
either"
Mr Hamilton said that Goodrich had,
bv circulating petitions, sought to place
tbe matter of his candidacy for presls
dent before the people of Indiana, and
that 1t was neither good politics nor
good republicanism to deprive the peo-
ple of the state of a chance to vote for
any candidate they might desire. lie
said that Gen. Wood had many friends
in the state who wanted to show their
regard for him, and that, in addition
there was a general feeling Of oppoSl-
tlon to Goodrich throughout the state
which must have some method of ex-
preston.
HINTS COMPLETE
" GOODRICH OVERTHROW,
Mr.. Hamilton indicated that it would
hot be a difficult thing to obtain an
xexpressiou from the voters of the state
X hot Tern
taking more than a mere haodful OF
delegates to the Chicago convention, II
indeed, he got any.
Hamilton has for several months been
advocating the election of a delegation
without pledges to the Chicago conven-
tion. He is a warm personal friend OF
James e. Watson, and his attitude to-
ward the Goodrich for president boom is
indicative of the feeling of every friend
of Senator Watson in Indiana.
Watson's friends are of the opinion
that the senator has been 'Jobbed' by
the political bosses Of the state and
they are determined that whether Wat
son joins them or not they viii not
permit the impression to go over the
nation that Indiana thinks more Of Jim
Goodrich than 1t does of Senator Watson.
They Or snly assert that Goodrich pledged
CATION to go to Chicago and then double
crossed Watson by petitionlng to place
his name on the preferential ballot.
1t is this double cross" that has
stirred the Watson adherents to the tips
of their toes and caused them to re
pudiate any agreeemnt that Watson may
have made with Goodrich in the interests
Of party harmony in the state.
CENsURE GOODRICH
FOR STARTING TROUBLE.
The feeling at the Columbia club Is
running high against Goodrich. Re-
publicans who have no particular choice
between Watson and Goodrich are blam-
ing Goodrich for precipitating the fight
They say that a political leader with
arumen enough to keep his party alive
ought to have avoided any course that
would have made this fight possible and
they are not blaming the Watson ele-
ment for refusing to bear the yoke of
Goodrichism longer.
The method which Goodrich adopted Of
getting out his petitions for entering
the presidential fight has aroused
storm of opposition to him.
Goodrich left this matter to his old
ally, Ed. Robson, who has been con-
nected with him in a number Of deals
that the public does not enjoy.
Robinson started out to arouse "spon
taneous demand" for the candidacy Of
Goodrich. He sent blank petitions to all
the Goodrich job holders in the state,
with instructions to them to give the
matter immediate attention. with ''all
possible speed" In sending out the petit
tions he used the stationery of the Globe
Mining Company, thereby linking up
psSoodrich's candidacy with the use of the
convicts from the penal farm on the
Globe Mining property and Haunting in
the face Of all republicans the business
and family connections of the Goodrich
outfit with the office of the governor.
This indiscretion was sufficient to add
to the fame aroused by the breaking Of
what was popularity supposed to be a
"gentleman's agreement" with Watson
CLAIM GOODRICHISM
MEANS G. o. p. RUIN.
"The fat is in the fire now" said
prominent republican observer today.
Goodrich will either have to give up all
aspirations he ever had for the presi-
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