Evening star., 1922-03-22
PRESIDENT FIGURES
|N|ND|ANA POLITICS
Question Arises Whether
G. 0. P. Will Support New,
Favored by Executive.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

oPeSidi DlSpdtch to The Star.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. March 22.-i
Lew Shank and President Harding
nave come to the fore most 'promi-
nently in the Indiana republican
senatorship campaign up to this time.
other issues may overshadow them
later but at present they are in the
limelight They present these ques-
tions:
Will republicans of Indiana support
Senator Harry S. New for renomina-
ton because they believe. President
Harding would like to see New re-
nominated?
Will Lew Shank, mayor of In
dianapolis, continue actively in the
campaign, and if he does SO will he be
of great aid 10 Albert J. Beveridge,
whose candidacy for the sepatorship
nomination he is supposed to espouse?
viii MIR. Beveridge by his vigorous
dHcussiOn of the question of money
and his proposal for the limitation of
primary expenses succeed in prevent
ing the supporters of Senator New
from spending any great amount of
money for publicity purposes?
Revealed by Shaffer.
1t was not until few days ago that
President Harding began to figure
prominently in the campaign. The
word had been passed around quietly
for some time that President Harding
favored the denomination of Senator
New, but the New people had found
no way to give general publicity to
the Presidents supposed state of
mind until a few days ago. when John
G. Shaffer. newspaper publisher and
ardent champion of Mr.. Bevefidge
published prominently on the first
page of his three Indiana papers a
signed statement which included just
one little sentence in which Mr.. Shaf-
fer said that in a conversation with
President Harding the President had
President, would like to see Senator
New renominated.
Mr.. Beveridge. in his keynote
speech. delivered a few days ago.
made it clear that he intends to
support President Harding loyalty if
he is elected to the Senate. So the
question appears to be, "Will the
Presidents high personal regard for
Senator New bring Senator New
great additional support"
) LuIl In Shank's Activity.
Interest just now in Lew Shank.
mayor of Indianapolis. arises from
a considerable lull in the activity of
weeks ago Mr.. Shank made a tour
of the state speaking for Mr..
Beveridge, and in some of his re-
marks became rather bitter toward
Senator New. Mayor Shank also was
prominent in the crowd that visited
Mr.. Beveriuge's home at the time
Mr.. Beveridge announced his can
didacy.
But recently Mr.. Shank has can
celed an engagement for ReveriGSe
meeting in the southern part of the
state. The story in circulation is
Nyvs taH n
Shank in some way, but it is believed
that the truth of the matter is that
Mayor Shank had heard that esome
of the close friends OF Mr.. Beveridge
have been saying that the BeveridSe
campaign would be better off with
Shank cut of it.
Proposal Causes Discussion
Mr.. Beveridge's proposal, made in
his keynote speech, that he and
ment for the limitation of campaign
expenses, has caused much discus
sion. AS yet it is difficult to tell
just what will be the. outcome of
this issue, but Mr.. Beveridge Is fol-
lowing it up vigorously in all of his
speeches. He says that when people
are burdened with taxes is no time
to expend eXorbitant sums of money
in political campaigns, and says the
New people already have been
putting out mQcn money LOT news
paper advertising.
Two other questions are now
cropping out in the republican con-
test, and while neither has up to this
time received great attention, they
undoubtedly will prove to be i'm
portant later. One is the question
of Mr.. Beverilge's record in the
world war, which is now being
sprung in what might be termed an
insinuating manner by the Senator
New campaigners, and the other is
the report that. old line republicans
have determined that Mr.. Beveridge
shall not be nominated because he
was active in the Bull Moose
organization.
II speakers for Senator New con-
tinue to talk about Mr.. Beveridge's
war record, it appears that Mr..
Beveridge will be compelled to give
some attention to this question.