Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1894 — VOORHEES’S PRESIDENTIAL BOOM. [ARTICLE]

VOORHEES’S PRESIDENTIAL BOOM.

Indiana’s Senior Senator Backed. By All His Colleagues. A Washington dispatch to the Indianapolis News, Wednesday, says: Senator Voorhees’s Presidential aspirations are a subject of much comment and not a little amusement among the Washington politicians. It is no joking matter, however, with the Indiana Democrats here. They nearly all speak favorably of of the Senator,-and are of the opinion that he will have the Indiana delegation to the National convention. Not a single Indiana Representative has yet declared himself for Minister Gray as against Voorhees. It is plainly evident that, in a test of strength between the senior Senator and Minister Gray, the latter would 1 not be in it for the Presidency, so far as the Indiana Democratic representatives are concerned. Just who is responsible for having started the Voorhees Presidential boom is yet uncertain. Congressman Martin was probably one of the first in the delegation to point out the Senator’s strong points as a Presidential candidate, ami to Mr. Martin the most telling feature in the Senntor’s favor was the fact that he had disapproved of Hoke Smith’s pension policy.