Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-05-11
G. FORCES
OF STATE LINE
UP FOR BATTLE
First Clash Scheduled at Com.
nittee Reorganization
Tomorrow.
GOODRICH OR WATsoN9

On the eve of the state convention.
Indiana republicans are facing today
one of the most bitter fights that has
taken place in the party in this state.
The fight will start with the reor-
ganization of the state central COM
mittee at a meeting opening at
o'clock tomorrow morning.
AT this meeting the question Of whether
Gov. James P. Goodrich or Senator
James E. Watson viii control the party,
must be determined.
With Senator Watson, who is a can
didate for reelection, and Warren T.
McCray, the republican nominee for gov
ernor, determined to control the party,
the present organization is fighting for
its life.
The test viii come in the election of a
state chairman.
The old organization is insisting that
Edmund NJ Wasmuth, the present chair
man. must be retained, while the Watson
McCray faction is insisting on his re-
moval.
The latter contend that, inasmuch as
they are the party's nominees, they
should have the right to name the or
ganization.
TODAY'S MEETINGS.
ITO BE GUIDE POSTS.
Whether the Watson faction Will as
sumo control in Indiana viii be de-
termined when the results Of district con-
ventions being held today are learned.
These conventions viii name district
, cLairmen, who in turn, viii elect the
state chairman.
AT the present time the Goodrich fac
tion is claiming eleven Of the thirteen
votes. while the Watson faction is claim
ing eight of the thirteen.
Seven votes are necessary TO elect.
The second great problem which wiz
face the conveption viii be the instruc-
ti0n of delegates to the national conven-
ton.
While the law provides that delegates
must be instructed only in case a candi-
date for the nomination for the presi-
dency receives a majority in the primary,
the Leonard Wood organization is de-
manding that the majority Of the dele
gates be instructed 10 vote for Wood.
This demand is expected to precipitate
{ a fight, because organization leaders in
Indiana are known to be opposed to Gen.
Wood
DELEGATES AT LARGE
MEAN ANOTHER FIGHT
The hardest fight probably viii come
when the work of selecting the states
four delegates at large is taken up.
1t had previously teen understood that
the delegates would be Senators Watson
and New, Gov. Goodrich and Mr. Was
muth
This lineup is not at all pleasing to thu
+ Wood Organization.
+ In fact this proposed big four" is so
distasteful to the Wood organization that
I 81 is suggesting candidates OF its own
Col. Hiram Bearss of Peru has been
( suggested by the Wood organization as
candidate for the "big four"
The republicans also will be compelled
to fight out on the floor of their con-
yention problem on which the DEM
ocrafs already have decided.
This is the question Of whether women
will be sent TO the national convention as
delegates
Mrs Anne Studebaker Carlisle of South
Bend has announced her candidacy for
the big four" thus bringing the cues
ton Of women as delegates directly be
fore the convention.
PARTY PLATFORM
ANOTHER PROBLEM.
Mrs Carlisle is expected to have the
support of the Wood faction.
'tAli HAothet pIouteu WHICH muSc De
solved by the convention is the problem
Of the party platform.
In this connection the convention wiz
be confronted with the serious problem
Of whether the Goodrich administration
shall be approved
The party is apparently divided on
this question as on nearly every other
question that viii come before it.
The question of what is 10 be done
about the tax law also must be un-
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