The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-05-16
SEN. WATSON TO TAKE
PART IN REPUBLICAN
CAMPAIGN THIS FALL
PALLADIUs. NEWS BUREAU

PALLADIUM NEWS BUREAU
WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator
James E. Watson is planning to take
an active part in the Republican cam
paign in Indiana in the fall. He in
tends to deliver a number of speeches.
1t is understood that the senator
will devote considerable part of his
campaign in the Sixth district which
he represented in the lower branch
of congress for many years.
He has confided to some of his
friends that he wants particularly to
visit the smaller towns in his home
district. During the 1920 campaign
Senator Watson did not canvass the
Sixth district extensively and his few
meetings in that district were for the
most part in the county seats. This
year he wants to meet the home
folks" in the smaller communities and
this desire on his part is regarded as
quite natural in view of the fact that
the large majority of the Republican
voters in the rural communities OF
the Sixth district have always fol
lowed devotedly the Watson political
fortunes. 1t was they who christened
him "Our Jim
1t has been several years since Sen
ator Watson has had the opportunity
to visit those whose vote he depended
upon to bring him victory in many 4
/ hard fought political battle, and he
admits that he is looking forward
with pleasure to his proposed tour oi
the small towns of the Sixth district
Will Visit Home
Senator Watson will make briei
visit to Rushville, his home, mex
month to take part in the ceremonies
connected with the observance of the
| centennial anniversary of the organi
| zation of Rush county. 1t is under
stood that this event will be held or
June IA, and Is. The Senator is tt
/ deliver an address and will then re
turn to Washington.
| Shelby county will observe the cen
| tennial anniversary of its organiZa
ton on July 4 with an historical pa
geant at Shelbyville but it is not prob
able that Senator Watson will attent
| this event owing to the fact that tht
senate will be completing it's consid
GRAFTON of the tariff bill about tina
time, it is expected.
1t is probable, however, that tn,
| Rev. James Shera Montgomery, chap
lain of the house of representative
and at one time pastor of a Methods
church in Shelbyville, will attend th'
! Shelby county centennial celebration
/ Senator Watson expects to returl
to Indiana soon after the adjournmen
of congress, which is expected be
tween Aug. Is and Sept 1, and, it i
understood. he will begin active cam
paigning about the middle of Septem
ber, visiting every part of the state
Lively times in the senate thes
days, and old Senatorial Dignity
shrieking with horror.
4 One senator recently called a pr
vate citizen crook" Another ser
ator, also behind the barriers of hi
office, has applied worse names to tn
same citizen.
The citizen who was referred to a
"crook" replies with the assertion
that one antagonist is a coward
vagabond" and a dirty reprobate
and that the other is a "blasphemou
and blatant hillbilly" He invites on
or both the wearers of the toga t
come from behind senatorial privileg
and meet him "alone in a room" TIL
invitation has not yet been accepted
The Congressional Record promise
more light, spicy summer reading an
!, its circulation editor is in a very jovis
|. mood.