Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 279, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1916 — Marshall Deluged With Plum Seekers’ Applications. [ARTICLE]

Marshall Deluged With Plum Seekers’ Applications.

When Vico President Thomas R. Marshall finds out what the election has done for him he is likely to change his freely expressed opinion that the vice president has nothing to do but smoke cigars-and eat his hea/1 off. The election has given the vice president plenty to do. It has put up to him the biggest patronage problem a vice president ever faced. He will learn when he returns to Washington that he has enough patronage warries ahead of him. The defeat of Kern and Taggart iand all but four of the Indiana democratic candidates for the house ot representatives has resulted in passing the “buck” to the vice president in a wjjy that was never dreamed of. Throughout the departments at Washington there are many Indianians, placed there by Senators Taggart and Kern, and Indiana democratic representatives who are looking to the vice president for their future backing. They are confidently expecting the vice president to hold them in office and the latter will find plenty to do.