Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1914 — Senator Kern1 Gets An Uppercut From the Machine. [ARTICLE]

Senator Kern 1 Gets An Uppercut From the Machine.

Senator Kern, who is to be the chairman of the democratic convention, will have his desire to be on the platform committee disappointed, for he will not be a delegate to the convention. The Taggart crowd are charged with having shorn him of delegate power. In Lafayette there is a troublesome democrat by the name of J. Kirby Risk. He received • a letter from Senator Kern which fodkr" A swing at the machine politicians of the state and expressed a wish that the platform could be written by the progressive element of the party. Kirby showed tbe letter and Tom Taggart did the rest. To all appearances the Taggart machine's in complete control and the Wilson-Bryan “forward lookers” will do nothing but look and never get on the inside. It is necessary to tip your top piece to Tom or be one of the losers in Roosier democracy and the slap at Kern is probably an advance step toward deposing him for the U. S. senate two years hence.