Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 November 1901 — Tenth District Politics. [ARTICLE]

Tenth District Politics.

W. H. Blodgett in Indianapolis News. There is not mnch danger of anyone getting into the race for Secretary of State now who can defeat Dan Storms, of Lafayette. Mr. Storms has been waiting for this office for some years, and as soon as he became Qrand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias he announced himself as a fall-fledged candidate and he has been working at it very hard ever Bince. Though the day of nomination is a long way off, Mr. Storms is just as busy as if it were to-morrow, and his friends say that he is now past the danger line so far as any other candidate is concerned. But there is many a slip in politics and Mr. Storms will not let up an iucb until the convention settles whether he is to be the nominee or nbt. It seems to be the understanding over the state that Mr. Storms is to be nominated without opposition and it is hardly probable tßat tnere will be a candidate who can show much strength against him. If there should be a candidate, the one thing that will handicap Storms more than the Hanly and anti Hanly row, is the fact that so many distinguished statesmen of the Tenth are after office. State Statistician Johnson, of Fowler, wantß to be renominated. Judge Wiley wants another chance on the Appellate beneh and for the latter place, Dan Fraser, of Fowler, might give it a try. Frank Doran, of Laporte, wants to be Auditor of State; John Dyer, of Hammond, is a candidate for Treasurer of State, and for that matter he is the strongest man in the district, stronger than Dan Storms, or any of the rest of them. It is certain that all. of the candidates' for State offices in this congressional district can not be nominated. Storms has no oppos’tion, and what is to become of the others. So far as candidates for Congress, there is but one, E D. Orumpaeker, who is tlie present incumbent. He wd{ he nominated without opposition, ami any Democrat who runs against him in this district might as well move to make Mr. Crumpacker’s reelection unanimous.

Earnest Fritls, of Dunkirk, whose marriage hero a few days ago was noted at the time, will go into business at Hartford City, where he will carry a line of house furnishing goods.