The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-17
TAGGART IS NOT A BOSS, DECLARE
 MANY ADMIRERS
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eral Wood from getting the republican delegates from the state.
 Mistakes which he made then have kept hirn busy on the stump for some time. The campaign isswelI advanced because he has hard fight on his hands. In it's broader aspects. the sit uation here is similar to the situation elsewhere The republican national ticket is much stronger Nthan Che re- publican state and senate tickets. The best opinion of impartial observers IS that Harding is likely to carry the state. but that he may not carry it Ly large enough margin to bring Watson along with him
 There are indeterminate factors as yet. The effect of the league issue is rot clear: Cox might develop it ard upset calculations. The woman vote IS an unknown element.\
 DlSLOCAIIONS ARE APPARENT
 The great political dislocations caused by ths~war are apparent. You find many republicans who are going to vote for Cox. And you find an even larger class of democrats who probably are going to vote for Harding. Bigger than the league issue or any other issue are the disappointments of the war. Few are happy over the peace. Foreign voters feel that their mother countries were badly treated at Paris and blame President Wilson. + they were democrats they have left the democratic party.
 And there are enough of these to swing the state to Harding, in spite of republican losses among voters who dislike the republican Senate's actions on the League of Nations. In addition. fhar 4lx. l.-ft lusoned and disgusted about the war and who have only one aim-to replace the democratic administration at Wash ington with a republican administration With many voters this one idea of turn ing the democras out excludes the con sideration of any other issue.
 A little while ago republicans here diana politics. You may not call Taggart boss. You may not call him buyer of the presidency. And you may not ,augn at the nomination of James Whitcomb | Riley's physician. Taggart. Hays and Riley, each in his way, is ap Indiana in- stitution. But even with it's amenities | there is very real politics here. When | you arrive here and explain that you | have come to have a look at the political l situation, the Indanan exclaims: This is the place to come" andghe tells you 1 joyfully how exceedingly doubtful In. | diana is.
 l You call up the secretary of the re- | publican state committee and explain who you are, and he says, after long hesitation, "I'll try to find few mo ments to see you just before noon to- morrow" Think of mere secretary of state committee who is as hard to see as a fashionable oculist in New IYork. It is a part of the Hays, or | Indiana tradition.
 ISSUES ARE CLEARER | In state where politicians are held | n such high esteem as Indiana and | where the art of politics is practieed with such industry. you find the situa- 1 tion further, developed and the issues clearer than in the less political parts of the union. In a sense this cam paign began in the primary campaign | for the nomination of the republican candidate for the Senate. The drive on Senator Watson, which has made l Taggarts election to the Senate pos sible, began in the fight to keep Gen