Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-01-09
WHOLLCARRY
HOOSIER HONOR
IN BIG RACE?
State Has Record of 10 Candi'
dates in National Cam
paigns Since 1868.
IN DOUBT THIS YEAR

Who Will be Indiana's candidate in the
national election this year?
Indiana has the unique record Of hav-
ing had one or more candidates for either
president or vice president in every
campaign, with one exception, since the
Civil war. Consequently many are look
Ing for some one to continue this record.
Since 1868 Indiana men have sought
either the presidency or the vice presi-
dency nineteen times. As a result 1t has
become a matter Of course for one polit-
ical party or the other to nominate nm In
diana candidate. The tradition that Ia
diana is a pivotal" state has had much
to do with this.
IN 1868 Schuyler Colfax was Gen.
Grants running mate and gave Indiana
the vice presidency for the first time
The following campaign there were
numerous parties in the field, branching
in many directions on reconstruction
problems. Thomas A Hendricks was an
unsuccessful candidate for president In
diana also had a candidate for vice presi-
dent that year on the liberal" ticket
He was George W. Julian, who attracted
only a very few votes.
During the next succeeding campaign
Indiana came into prominence with
Hendricks as the vice presidential can
unsuccessful In 1880 william II. Eng
fish was Indiana's democratic candidate
He failed to be elected. Hendricks was
elected in 1884 az Cleyeland's running
mate.
HARRISON ELECTED
BY REPUBLICANS IN 1888.
In 1888 Indiana was represented by
BENJAMIN Harrison as a republican can
"a 20 fTYI
but when he ran a second time, 1892, was
defeated by Cleveland. Then came 1895
one Of the most famous campaign years
In the history Of America and Indiana
did not have a candidate.
The following campaign Indiana's
reputation as a home OF candidates was
saved when Eugene " Debs Of Terre
Haute appeared on the scene as socialist
candidate for president. Indiana was not
to be without a candidate for four cam
paigns, He went William Jennings
Bryan one better in the number OF races.
Indiana returned to "big time politics
in 1904, when Charles Warren Fairbanks
was made Theodore RoOsevelt's running
mate. In 1908 John Worth Kern went
down to defeat as Bryans running mate
The same year Samuel Williams Of IN
diana was a candidate of the peoples"
ticket. though few people knew It,
In 1912 and 1915 Indiana succeeded in
sending Thomas Riley Marshall to Wash
ington as vice president But 1916 WAS
the banner year for Indiana candidates.
Both Marshall and Fairbanks were run
ming for vice president; Debs was ran
ning for president on the socialist ticket
and ]. Frank Hanly was a candidate for
president on the prohibition ticket.
POSSIBILITIES THIS YEAR
APPEAR UNCERTAIN.
What the future holds can only he
determined by the national conventions
that assemble this summer. Indianas
politics have always appeared uncertain.
There has always been a balancing
power OF Independent voters which has
made the result in the state a "toss-up.
Conseq uently, the conventions usually
chose a candidate from indiana, in order
TO swing that vote. 1t was often re-
marked that las Indiana goes, so goes
the nation" But this adage failed in
the last election, when Indiana voted