Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-04-26
ID. P. CONTROL IN
VOTERS HANDS
Confined From Page one.)

.oI the republican nomination for gov
NOR.
AsThe fight between Warren T. McCray,
with an enormous McCray organization.
and ]. W Fesler, with the party's official
organization, is going to be so close that
Marion county's vote will decide it.
Fesler will carry Marion county, but
McCray will receive SO many votes in
Fesler's home city that he will not be
greatly harmed by FesIer's local victory.
Neither will he win enough votes TO
cinch the nomination in the primary
with e. c. Toner in the race and the
republican convention will eventually
nominate McCray.
McCray will profit by the fight which
has been made on behalf of the Leonard
Wood presidential boom.
This boom was inflated by. the Indian
apols News and a group of republicans
who were struggling to retain their hold
on the party and had control Of the state
and Marion county organization.
They have measured their whole
strength. fred all their ammunition and
| found that their campaign is failure
As a result of their struggle they have
need what was known as the Watson
gent of the party, and which included
greater part Of the party, to get busy
"a protect itself.
The Watson, or regular republicans
have put on their fighting clothes AID
propose to demonstrate in the last week
Of the primary that they constitute the
republican party of Indiana.
They will demonstrate it by plaeing
Wood in third place in the primaries.
by rolling up a vote for McCray that
VIII insure him the republican nomina-
ton for governor, and by defeating the
Jewett- Goodrich organization in Marion
county.
The word has gogne down the line
from the real leaders Of the republican
party in Indiana TO divide support be
tween Hiram johnson and Gov. Low
den Of Illinois.
Johnson will get large vote in the
state, regardless of what the party lead
ers do, and Lowden will receive the SUP
port Of the republicans, who object to
the domination of their party by the
Indianapolis News snd its crowd.
The result will be that johnson and
Iowden will run neck and neck in the
primaries. Wood will be third and Hard
ing will almost fade from remembrance.
WATSON MAY BE
G.. o. p. DARK HORSE.
When the convention meets it win be
found that none Of the presidential can
didates has a sufficient following to elect
pledged delegates to the Chicago con-
vention. and the convention will then
name such delegates as can be swung
10 ozark horse" when it is necessary,
and that dark horse will be James e.
Watson OF Indiana.
In the meanwhile there will be much
talk about making LOwden the nominee
OF Chicago.
The same branch of the party that il
in control of the state delegates in ref
ersnce 70 electing national delegates will
see that McCray is nominated for gov
ernor. regardless of the Fesler sentiment,
for Fesler is essentially the candidate Of
the same interests that are supporting
Wood and now taking a whipping for
their presumption in attempting to con
A$Zol the party.
We anti organization" crowd in
Marion county viii be needed by the reg
ulars TO show that, Fesler is not even
n strong candidate in his own home.
Therefore the ants viii be helped by
the regulars In Marion county in their
effort TO eliminate the GoOdrich-Jewett-
News machine.
With the primary over, the close har-
mony that has So long existed between
the state administration under Goodrich.
the county and city administration under
Jewett and the News crowd viii be
broken.
Without the cO-ordinated efforts OF
these three factions the republicans can
not carry Marion county Without car
rying Marion county they can not win the
state. Therefore il is evident that for
the Indiana democracy
This Is the Year"