Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 278, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1913 — Governor Ralston and Senator Shively Held Long Conference. [ARTICLE]

Governor Ralston and Senator Shively Held Long Conference.

Senator Benjamin F. Shively, of South Bend, who is home from Washington for a rest and to talk about patronage problems, visited Indianapolis Monday and held a three-hours conference with Governor Ralston at the latter’s office in the state house.* Both the governor and the senator said it Was just a friendly conference and visit and that about everything had been discussed from the constitution to the town pump, but that they had settled nothing. They said that they had recalled the campaign of 1896, when Mr. Shively ran for governor and Mr. Ralston for secretary of state, and both were buried beneath an avalanche of votes. There are a lot of fat jobs soon to be given out to Indiana democrats and Senators Shively and Kern are trying to figures them out. It is probable that the' applications will all be considered and the plums given out about the last of December. A dispatch from Plymouth says that there is a movement in northern Indiana to defeat Shively for re-election as senator. It is said that Sbfvely has been linked with an element of democracy that is on the down grade and that democratic defeats in several towns in the Thirteenth District v indicate the wavering Shively forces; More aggression is apt to be demanded by the democrats who oppose Mr. Shively. * *