Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — KETCHAM IS HOT. [ARTICLE]

KETCHAM IS HOT.

Thinks the State Committee Is Trying to Dump Him. Reports from all the meetings throughout the state are furnishing the Democrats much encouragement. The interest in the Democratic meetings is steadily increasing, and the mere announcement of a meeting is sufficient to bring out a crowd. The Republican meetings, on the contrary, are not so well attended as earlier in the campaign. Railroad Attorney Fairbanks has recently been greeted by empty benches at Rushville and other poinis, and Mr. Ketcham, the candidate lor attorney general, has had such small audiences that his friends are accusing the state central committee of throwing cold water on his campaign. Ketcham’s nomination was very distasteful to the central committee and to Harrison and Ketcham knows it. Naturally he feels that they are working against him secretly to prevent him becoming too prominent in the state. It is requiring the utmost efforts of the "conciliators” to prevent an open rupture between Ketcham and the committee.