Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1919 — NOMINEES OF BOTH PARTIES BAY BE FROM INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

NOMINEES OF BOTH PARTIES BAY BE FROM INDIANA.

Indianapolis, Ind., March 19,—The visit of George Harvey, editor of the North Amerfcan Review and Harvey's Weekly, to Indianapolis and his prophecies concerning the next presidential election in Indiana has set the political tongues a-wagging here. MV. Harvey declared, in effect, that President Wilson would not be a candidate to succeed himself for the presidency and that the most logical man for the position of Democratic'nominee would he none other than Thomas Riley Marshall, of Indiana. So much for that side of the fence. Then he plunged recklessly into the Republican situation, declaring that Will H. Hays probably would be one of the most Available men for the presidency nomination by the Republicans—another Hoosier. \

/This latter prognostication began a great deal of political gossip here. It is known confidentially that Mr. Harvey and those associated with him here made a very careful annalysis of the political situation in this state. His representatives met political leaders of wide experience and ability here and they heard the story of inside Indiana politics as it now being played. They learned something like this: • -_~ That Governor James P. Goodrich, although he has said to friends that he did not care for the vice-presi-dential nomination, would not run from it if it came his way. That the Governor has been laying pipeliment very carefully for four days to insure that he will control the Indiana delegation that goes to the* next national Republican convention. That Will H. Hays, Republican national chairman, can have the Republican nomination for governor of Indiana if he caves to come back and get it, but that many believe that his ideals are turned to higher c|ian- , nels now. (That Governor Goodrich apparently is playing the game hard to win back to his personal standards of all of the old Progressive leaders in Indiana, including Edward C. Toner, of Anderson, former progressive state chairman. That an impending party cataclysm between the Goodrich .element of the Republican party and the Watson element of the Republican party is just in the offing and that forces of both men are lining up for a battle royal unless some kind friend steps in tip intervene. That Senator Batson’s friends already are playing hirp for the presidential nomination by the Republicans and that this “boom” is to

break in directly to the Goodrich plans. „ , That Senator Boies Penrose, of Pennsylvania, apparently would welcome the Watson boom for president. . * ■ p That certain elements of the Republican party in Indiana notably some that were prominent in the recent session of the Indiana legislature, will attempt to break the Goodrich control of the Indiana delegation. That the position of James A. Hemenway, of Boohville, Republican national commdtteman from Indiana, in the complex political situation, is riot understood (here. That several incipient governorship booms are under war, all heing held in abatement until Will H. Hays notifies the party generally what he intends .to do. These and many other political facts were learned by Harvey and his associates and they all resolve about the central fact that Indiana k bas been the state of vice-president-ial timber for many years. It would not -surprise many here to see the two great parties standing out towards the 1920 politicals as with a Hoosier in the first mate’s cabin of each great national craft.