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Show (i - I IN THE LIMELIGHT J NEXT INDIANA GOVERNOR " I Thomas It. Marshall, Democratic governor- xtoiK clcct t Indiana, was an attorney of Columbia tW City, before his nomination for tho highest office jpG? sx the state by his party. W S,r Mnrshall poked his head up abovo tho I. (. fiBB 'ove' ' comparative obscurity several months X&l SJT nf?0' antl cnl,,urt'd tho Democratic nomination I sjj for governor of Hooslerdom. It was not so much VjJV of a capture, for the Democratic nomination for I&tffil governor of Indiana lias been a sort of honorary mSx position for tho past dozen or so years. Almost YtfV anybody who was serious In asking for it could J&jflmfe Bet It. John W. Kern has had It onco or twice Up to that moment, Mr. Marshall was an un-Sr'MwW'Ifil, un-Sr'MwW'Ifil, kuown quantity outsldo his Immediate neighbor-JjJJaJutSMmM neighbor-JjJJaJutSMmM hood. Ho had not been an Important factor In Democratic affairs even Democratic affairs In Indiana, where, as has been Intimated, the Democracy didn't have many at fairs. Tho Itcpubllcans with glad acclaim nominated James K. Watson, congressman, con-gressman, spellbinder par excellence G. O. P. whip In congress, protege and favorite of Unclo Joe Cannon and second lieutenant In tho Hoosler favorite son brigade. It seemed as If everybody wanted that sure-flro Itepubllcan nomination nomi-nation this year, and Watson won after a stiff fight. Tho party papors hailed him as practically already elected, and Watson himself began to pick out the grocery where tho family trading would bo dono for four years. There has been a good deal of a change since then. Tho saloon question mado somo of It, tho present Hnnly administration In Indiana made considerably consider-ably more of It, the national campaign did tho rest. Tho Dsmocrnts took heart and put up a light. Tho Republicans began to fight among themsolves and split up. Marshall stock shot skyward, whllo Watson stock tumbled, and tho result of tho recent election was not entirely unexpected, , |