The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1920-08-03
WHERE IS
The PERFECT
HARMONY?
Indiana Democrats MOI. Happy,
State Organ DenOunCeS
Party Organization
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I>L1ANAFoLIS. IND. Aug. S-The
perfect harmony that the democrats
tgTe been prCclaiming as cN sting IN
s7eI ranks In Indiana has proved 80
ec myth as many had supposed.
Tus hrst indication that all was not
weu Within she ranks OF the democra-
tie party vas brought TO light when
The Indiana Daily Times. ms only
newspaper aligned with the party
which could be elassed as a state or
san began to denounce the manage
mont Of TIE state organization under
benjamin Bosse. mayor of Evansville
sud state chairman
There has been considerable specu.
iation why the paper should break
n-t h the party even though II realized
that things We're not gong right
The sossip that is going the rounds
explains the attitude OF the party. how
ever.
Among the things charged asainst
tAc STATE Organization BY the Times
IS that Benjamin Bosse l.. q. Filing
ham Of Fort Wayne, member Of the
state publicity committee. and own,sr
- the newspaper at Fort Wayne of
which Edward Hoffman. national com
mitteeman. is interested. and in which
Claude G Bowers is editor. are con
spring To deliver certain offices TO the
republicans this fan,
The paper points TO a number of in
,iden-s IL prove its assertions
But the real reason for the hostility
Is assigned to the fact that Thomas
Taggart. democratic candidate for
Uus,ed states senator. and operator Of
IN famous French Lick resort. did
not play ball with that faction u
boosters who desired the nomination
If william y. McAdoo for president.
1t VIII be remembered that the Ind
lana deA gation at san Francisco sup
ported Il plumber of different canuIc-
ates until the twenty ninth ballot
when ali but one Of the thirty Indiana
votes went 10 McAdoo Tor few bal
lots. This shift was for the sole pur-
pose Of satisfying the Indiauaians who
were ctamoring for the nomination III
ii Adoo.
During the banot.ng. the story goes
tne editor Of the Times who was on
the grounds as the chief representa-
t.Fe Of the McAdoo men, went 10 Tag
sart and made 1t definitely understood
That unless the French Lick boss turn
ed all the Indiana votes over. 10 Nc
Adoo the Indianapolis paper would not
support the ticket in the campaign.
This threat had it's effect for the turn
came and the votes were caste for
fcAdoo. But this flop for few bal
lafs did not fool the Hoosiers who
kaew that the voting for the son-in-
law Of President Wilson was not sim
tere, 1t is said that they also real
zed that thea change was well timed
50 that the Indiana votes would have
no material result in breaking mo
deadlock between Cox and McAdoo
Thfs was borne out by the fact that
me Indiana votes soon turned away
r1m McAdoo. the oily Taggart think
ing that the McAdoo faction would be
appeased by the tricky Vancouver.
when Bosse appointed John Holtz-
man. former mayor of Indianapolis
IS director of the speakers bureau.
his was too much for the McAdoo
faction and the anti-Taggart men.
They feel that the appointment Of
Hoffman seals the doom Of the demo
cratic ticket in Indiana with the ex-
ception OF few Offices in this ap-
pointment they see the possibility Of
the state organization delivering to
the republicans with the tacit under
standing that certain factions Of the
c 0. P. viii support Taggart
The McAdoo men are not strong for
Taggart to start with. That max -
them doubly mad when they see in the
plays an effort to elect Taggsrt at the
expense of the rest Of the ticket They