Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1916 — INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER. [ARTICLE]

INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER.

By Willis S. Thompson. Indianapolis, Feb. 7. When the Democratic editors of Indiana visited Hammond last June among the local people who helped in their entertainment was A. Murray Turner, president of the First National bank ■at Hammond and one of the best known and strongest Republicans of the state. Remembering his entertainment of last June, President Lew M. O’Bannon sent an invitation *0 air. Turner to come to Indianapolis as the guest of the asoeiation and he present at the banquet. Mr. ’Turner sent a letter” expressing appreciation of the thought of him and among other things he said this: “I have been a Republican so long I am loath to disconnect myself with that party, which in. my humble opinion has during most of its history played its part well in the advancement of our country’s welfare, but if to be a present-day Republican I must subscribe to the unpatriotic and un-Ameri-can utterances of certain selfseeking politicians, who are going about this state and elsewhere criticising the motives of the President of our country during these uncertain and

perilous times, then I am not a regular Republican. ‘lf I must proclaim to the C'zar of Russia, to the king of England and to the karser of Germany and the subjects of all these crowned heads that we of the United States are not all of one mind and heart on the vital questions affecting our nation’s very life, then I surely am not a regular Republican.” - Senator John W. Kern sent a letter to the Democratic editors expressing regrets that he was unable to attend the banquet but said he would alsk .Mrs. Kern to be present in his stead. She was surprised when President O’Bannon called upon her to speak. She said she represented herself and spoke for nerself and then she declared for Woman suffrage, to which every body present gave their hearty cheers. O —-O—• Governor Elliott M. Major of Missouri left a splendid impression

with the editors and all others with whom he became acquainted after addressing the banqueters. He gave hearty approval to Woodrow Wilson and all his policies. Mrs. Kern said, she claimed to be the original Wilson woman of Indiana and that if we did not all love Woodrow Wilson so much she would feel inclined to take the distinction of being the original Major woman, to which the audience cheered. . . . —o—o—- “ Theodore reminds me of a certain cow on my father’s farm in Missouri. She was an old brindle cow. She could eat more nubbins, she could consume more chop and bran, she could tear down more fences, she could destroy more crops, she could below louder, she could paw deeper holes, she- could throw more dirt with her pawings, and she could give less milk than any other cow on the place.’’—Governor Major at Editorial banquet-

Governor Major did not know how excellently that same description fits quite a bunch of Republicans and their newspaper supporters in Indiana. With the rest of the country the governor must also remove his itfkt to the effect of that awful bellow from Theodore when if comes to stampeding national Republican conventions. \ f mV ;-a-o—-p~~ ft'.; ft '.As the day of the first state-wide primary gets .nearer, the not-all-i feasant .-'camp; ign of the Republics iv ca ndidateswho .are ■contesting, the nominations for senatorial and governor afe in such shape that it seems f oiupai at :v( ',y easy to predict results.

.Persons at inched to the lieadquar- i tors of Captain Harry S. Now, while publicly proclaiming that Npw will receive the nomination for senator, privately admit that James Eli Wat- j son has him walloped right now and that Wat on's strength increases every day. The men who came to attend the winter meeting of *tho Democratic editorial association are in position to size u p the situation pretty accurately in their home counties. While 1 hoy see .spots in the state where New appears to have the better of the argument, the big vote all over in,’ state;, «o tar as the Republican party is concerned, is reported to he with Watson. Arthur Robinson is throwing lots of pep Into his campaign and lie is working like a Turk" to land the nomination. He is going to surprise lots of older politicians when the votes are counted but he is handicapped because people do not expect him to be nominated. The votes he receives are admitted to come chiefly from New. With this division of the opposition, and. the fact that Watson has a remarkably strong personal following wherever ’•is name is placed before the Republicans of the state, all indicates well for Watson. Only the other day Jim Goodrich was quoted as saying he thought Watson was the most likely to receive the nomination. In the contest for the nomination for governor, while both Goodrich and McCray are spending money freely and extravagantly to secure the empty honor, Goodrich is conceded by the wisest on-lookers to he a good favorite in the voting. There is every reason to believe that Goodrich and Watson will be the fayorities. If the vote of neither is sufficient to nominate in the primary, and both contests should have to be settled in the convention, the delegates might feel disposed to act favorably on the primary showing, In the senatorial contest, however, the state organization is strong for New and might ride away'from any Watson preference shown in the primary vote. To throw Watson out in this manner would be like tossing Roosevelt out of the Republican convention of 1912. Order your calling cards at Th« Democrat office.