Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 309, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1910 — Taggart and Cohorts to . Fight Governor Marshall. [ARTICLE]

Taggart and Cohorts to . Fight Governor Marshall.

A dispatch from Indianapolis says: The closer the time comes for the opening of the session of the legislature the more it looks as if the Taggart crowd is going to ride straight over Governor Marshall, without the governor so much as raising a finger to keep them off. It is generally accepted here now as a fact that Taggart and his followers are going to organize the legislature from top to bottom, and that no one will have a look in unless he is favored by this faction of the democratic party. There is even a report here that Senator Steve Fleming, of Ft Wayne, and Governor Marshall came within an inch of reaching the point of rupture of their friendly relationns bn account of the manner in which the organization of the legislature is being framed up, but both Fleming and the governor have denied the story. The best evidence that Taggart is the real “man behind the gun” is found in the speakership race and the way it is working out. It is believed here that Adam Wise, of Plymouth, is sure of being elected speak' er. This development has come in the last two or three days. Up to that time it looked like an open race which any of the three or four leading candidates might ■ win, but there is good reason to believe that the Taggart crowd has settled on Wise and that it intends to put him over, regardless of whether anyone likes it or not. Taggart himself says he is not taking any hand in the speakership fight and that he will be well pleased with any one of the in the chair. He says they are all good men and that either one would make a good speaker. And on the surface there is not even a ripple to show that Taggart is doing anything in the fight.