Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1904 — HEMENWAY. [ARTICLE]

HEMENWAY.

Of course the present situation of the Indiana Republicans in respect to senatorial candidates is the natural outgrowth of the boss rule that has been inaugurated under Mr. Fairbanks. Years ago he began to contribute to the campaign fund, and for the purpose of advancing his own interests and it was not unnatural that he should be rewarded with a mortgage on his party. This mortgage not only covered his own claims on the party, but was construed by him and his backers to cover any claim that he might put forward in behalf of his friends. It is well known that the machine was loaded against Beveridge in 1899, when the “manifest destiny” statesman was chosen by the caucus, and that choice was made only after it was demonstrated that it must either be Beveridge or Hanly. Now Mr. Fairbanks comes forward and, In spite of the unwritten law of parties that all candidates shall have an equal show within the party, he and his friends are openly advocating the nomination of Hemenway for the senate. And this is being done in the face of the fact that Governor Durbin, Charles B. Landis, Edgar D. Crumpacker and others of less note but equal versatility are aspirants for the senate. The open championship of Hemenway by Speaker Cannon in recent speeches in Indiana was in direct defiance of every law of courtesy and of every rule of right. If there was but the one candidate and no prospect that others might enter the race; if the Republicans as a party were agreed that Hemenway should go to the senate in the event that the legislature is Republican, then the case woul’d be different, but the bringing into the state of a man of Cannon’s prominence in the party for the express purpose of booming Hemenway was an insult to the party and an outrage upon other candidates. But the Fairbanks machine has come to regard itself as invincible, and there is probably nothing which it will not dare to do, even in the face of party law. to reward a favorite and perpetuate itself in power.