Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1899 — Tenth District Polities. [ARTICLE]

Tenth District Polities.

The Indianapolis News seems to consider this Tenth congressional district the storm center of political matters just now. Its staff correspondent, W. H. Blodgett has been nosing around in the district, or more likely talked with some person from the district, and he has a column and a half ostensibly written from Fowler. His article is mainly devoted to the three or four cornered fight in Lafayette, in connection with Haggard’s present alleged candidacy for governor, and J. F. Hanley’s former campaign for senator. Among other statements is that an effort is being made to get exJudge E. P. Hammond to come out for governor, and thus unite the warring factions in Tippecanoe. That surely would be very agreeable to the people of Jasper county. Blodgett also says that down in Benton it is a perennial puzzle to find out what Dan Fraser wants, but the general concensus seems to be that a seat on the supreme court bench is about what Daniel thinks he sizes up to. Blodgett’s letter in Wednesday’s News is illustrated by a four column cartoon on the front page of the same paper, Thursday, headed, “Tenth District Political Situation.”

This picture represents Mr. Haggard as a very large and very ugly Indian warrior, in war paint and feathers, with scalding knife in one hand and tomahawk in the other, chasing his pale-faced enemies, Charley Griffin, Frank Hanly and Will Wood into Lake ganOne of Haggards enormous iron soled moccasin’s is “tromping” poor little Dan St6rms out of sight; and hot on Haggrard’s trail comes Al Kumler, also with tomahawk upraised. In the distance two peaceful and sagacious looking braves, labeled respectively Hammond and Fraser, are engaged in friendly council, and evidently intend, as soon as the warriors get each other all killed off or incapacitated, to propose mediation on the basis of those two gathering up all the spoils.