The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-06-12
THURMAN IS
GIVEN INDIANA
G. O. P. BERTH
WatSon'S Chief Lieutenant
Is States National
Committeeman.
JIM STILL is IN RACE
Watson Appears to Think
He Has Chance, Though
Landslide Looms.
BY ROSCOE FLEMING

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, June ~
Those Indiana gentlemen here who
have been trying hard to believe
that Senator j. E. Watson of In
diana might abdicate his presiden-
tial ambitions in favor of Charles G.
Dawes about the fifth ballot are be-
ginning to go around Kansas City
with their chins on their chests.
1t doesn't look like there will be a
fifth ballot In the second place.
Watson shows every sign of finally
having consummated marriage with
the presidential idea, and of having
ceased to be a candidate in name
only, if he ever could be described as
such.
In the third place, it is under
stood that if Watson ever tries to
release the delegation to Dawes, at
least eight of the thirty-three will
vote for Herbert Hoover.
Thurman Is Elected
Watson demonstrated control OF
the delegation last night so far as
organization is concerned, when, al
though he was absent at one of his
regular anti Hoover rallies, M. Bert
Thurman, his national campaign
manager, was elected Indiana ma
tional committeeman to succeed the
late Joseph B. Healing.
Miss Dorothy Cunningham of
Martinsville was reelected national
committeewoman
Thurman led the field OF six can
didates with thirteen votes on the
first ballot, and when he received
twenty on the second, it was made
unanimous.
The first ballot candidates were
Joseph B. Hutzell. Fit. Wayne, 4
votes; Henry Marshall, Lafayette, 5;
w. j. Riley, East Chicago, 2; George
Ball, Muncie, 7, and Schuyler A.
Haas, Indianapolis, 2.
= On the second ballot Marshall re-
ceived 6; Riley, l; Ball, 5, and
Haas, l.
Several Get Berths
Marshall was elected to the I'M
portant resolutions committee of
the national convention, D. r.
Scott of Linton to permanent Or
gantzation; r. F. Gates of Columbia
City to credentials; Mahlon E. Bash
of indianapolis to rules; Hutzell to
the committee to notify the presi-
Dental candidate, and Riley to no.
tify the vice president; John Owens,
Noblesville, was named delegation
chairman, and Ball, Indiana vice
president of the convention.
This business over, it took the
delegation two more hours behind
closed doors to apportion out it's
share of convention seats, some
thing more than 200, with about
1000 Hoosiers here wanting them.
AS may be imagined there was
plenty of comforting and conspiracy,
and lot of heartburn about mid
night on the part Of those who will
have to view the convention from
the streets in front of the broad
casting horns of the Kansas City
newspapers.
In Race, Says Watson
Watson twice assured the Hoo
SlerS at his rally mere yesterday
that he is in the race to stay, and
added that he has as good chance
as any other candidate. Edgar D.
Bush of Salem turned his speech
of the regular meeting of the So
called allies against Hoover at the
Athletic Club yesterday into Wat
son nominating address. 1t was re-
ceived with some enthusiasm.
Ex-Governor Goodrich came into
the Aztec room of the President
Hotel last night while the Hoosiers
we're dancing beneath the grinning
skull and skeleton decorations of
the room, and received a hearty
razzing.
Impromptu anti Hoover and anti
Goodrich speeches were made, and
one Hoosier, who possibly had been
enjoying surceaSe from Indiana's
strict prohibition enforcement,
hurled an unprintable remark at
Goodrich. The latter just grinned.
Lee Nixon of Indiana is to be
sergeant Of the convention