Show Hoosier r Dems De Have Watson in Corner C r er Host in Own Party Rising Against Him By FREDERIC WILLIAM WILE Exclusive e Dispatch Copyright 1926 I INDIANAPOLIS Ind Oct G. G G.- G. Jim Watson Vatson Jg is wagIng the political political ical leal battle of his life He and he alone Is the Issue in Indianapolis this year Seasoned Veteran that he lie Is his third successive campaign for or the United States Stales senate Is far and away the fiercest he has ever had to conduct If f he lie wins his sway as a monarch of or Hoos Hoosier el Republican politics will be absolute Watson is la girded girded girded- for his crucial fray with as as as' important an organIzation organization organ organ- as any American politician ever er commanded It retches reaches s l Into to every very post office in What Indiana Indiana What hat is more important it goes into every solitary voting voting- precinct of the state stale What is 15 probably most mosi significant to all all' allis is that the Wat Vat Vatson Watson son phalanx Includes every evely Ku Klux I Klan lan unit between Lake Ike Michigan and the Ohio river It Is against this formidable array ot of power that the Democrats Democrats Democrats Demo Demo- of Indiana bulwarked b by antl- antl Watson anti Republicans are are now throwing themselves th ves Indiana elects two two United States senators this year Watson Vatson Is th the Republican candidate to succeed himself for a long or full year six-year term Arthur R. R Robinson Is the Republican candidate to succeed himself for the short or year two-year term required to fill out the tho term of the late Samuel M. M Ralton Democrat whom Robinson succeeded by appointment in 1925 Watson Vatson Is opposed by Albert Stump and Robinsons Robinson's Democratic antagonist Is Evans Woollen Indianapolis In Indianapolis Indianapolis In- In banker Stump is a brilliant young lawyer of uncommon uncommon uncommon mon oratorical talent Woollen is hitherto relatively unknown n but butan butan butan an intellectual a banker and member member member mem mem- ber of ot a family long distinguished in Indiana politics and finance DEMS HAVE STRONG CANDIDATES Against the Republican senatorial incumbents It Is admitted on allhands all allhands allhands hands that the Democrats have nominated two of the f strongest men Who vho ever ran for the senate enate from the state in Hendricks Voorhees and Marshall Since time Immemorial immemorial immemorial imme Imme- morial a doubtful state stale Indiana In 1926 unquestIonably is entitled to lo that description Coolidge carried It by plurality in 1924 but two years previous Ralston overwhelmed overwhelmed overwhelmed over over- whelmed Demosthenes Demos Demos- thenes Albert Jeremiah Beveridge by in a senatorial ial vote voLe of 01 more than a million The figures talked about most most in Indiana just pow now are the results of Republican primary from which Watson atson emerged emerged- victorious An obscure lawyer named Claris Adams running without funds and without an organization rolled up votes vote's against Watson's Watsons Watsons Watson's Watsons Watson's Wat Wat- sons son's Jims triumph of oC two to one was substantial yet to today today today to- to day Adams' Adams vote looms as the most ominous cloud on the Watson hori hori- zon Conservative estimates are that at least 40 per cent of the Watson Vatson protest votes will be cast for Cor Stump the senators senator's Democratic rival next month An Ann AnI accession of Republican ball ballots tsin in an In Indiana Indiana In- In diana senatorial contest as the duel duel of 1922 showed is more than enough to turn a close contest In the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic direction On the extent to which Jim Watsons Watson's enemies knife him depends de- de the Democrats' Democrats chief hope of Df defeating him The name of these I foes is legion Their leaders are aro then men of oC eminent identity They In Include include include in- in clude such as Harry HarryS i S S. S New postmaster g general In Jn the Coolidge cabinet Albert Jeremiah Beveridge form former r United States senator James P P. Goodrich former former for for- mer governor of Indiana Will H H. Hays former postmaster general and Republican nati national nal chairman and Lew Shank picturesque Carmer former former for Car mer auctioneer mayor or of oC Indian apolis FOr varying nur of ot years each and all pit of these good good- and and- tru true true- Hoosier Republicans have lain awake nights ts hating Jinn W Wait Wat t. t son This This' is the first of senatorial c campaigns that thai finds his enemies massed in in the tho desire desire for Cor his overthrow if not openly mobilized t to accomplish it At t least two of them them New New and charge Beveridge charge harge Watson Vatson with Ith re responsibility for tor their their- their own own overthrows overthrows overthrows over over- over over- throws and within the same year It was was' in the spring of ot 1922 that Watson Vatson Is charged with thwarting News New's ambition to obtain nation to the senate and In the fall of the same year that Jim JimIs Is a accused of stabbing g Beveridge In the back so successfully that Sam Ii alston became col- col colleague o league in the senater fit r FARMERS ALSO RISING UP There Is no evidence that the New New-Beveridge New Hays Hays Goodrich Shank Shan braves have actually sharpened sharpened sharpened sharp sharp- ened tomahawks for the purpose of scalping Watson in in November Some of them cherish party regularity regularity regu regu- larity rarity too religiously religiously- to wish publicly publicly publicly pub pub- to have their Republicanism impugned by fighting a G G. G 0 O. P. P nominee e bu buy it is an open secret that jointly and ad severally they would rejoice at Watsons Watson's de de- de Democratic i leaders aders claim that the antl- antl Watson anti Vatson group Is going the full Cull limit short of public antagonism to beat him The assertion is made I that hat the Republicans are even Con Con- on- on to lo the Democratic war chest chesl as practical evidence of their sentiments There is another disaffected Republican Republican Republican Re Re- publican ele element that is expected to rise up against Watson Vatson this year namely the Indiana farmers Vatson Watson Watson Wat Vat son had their support through the farm bureau federation In his primary primary primary mary contest But Bui the Democrats have been driving home that Jims Jim's I friendship for the he bucolic brother w was s a powerful long time In manifesting manifesting manifesting man man- itself He lie has been in congress house and senate for tor tormore more than 30 years but It If seems cannot point to to any farm legislation legisla legislation legis legis- la lation lon for which he was In in any Rny anyway anyway way responsible during all ali that long period The The other day in a ke keynote note speech Watson Vatson blurted out that thai the plight of the farmer has been growing steadily worse for 25 years His resourceful Democratic opponent nt Stump Slump is now asking allover all allover allover over the tate state what whal Jim Watson Walson was doing during that quarter of oC a. a century of oC Increasing rural distress to r medy the farmers farmers' troubles Stump is depicting depleting Vat Wai- Vatson's sons son's zeal on behalf of oC Mc McNary- McNary ar- ar Haugen legislation at al the late session ses ses- sion o of ot congress as a 1 deathbed f repentance The rhe Democratic candidate candidate candidate can can- Is rubbing it in before gleeful gleeful glee glee- ful CuI audiences that Jim only got busy for the farmer on the eve of the 1926 and election campaigns cam cam- that that for 25 years Watson Vatson was was' was asleep at the congressional switch Coupled with the Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic appeal for reduction of ot the t fr v on commodities which the farmer has lias to lo buy these thrusts thrust at Watson who is making his d av A i j l tay uy Y un on the protective tariff issue are hitting the bullseye bullseye bulls- bulls ee eye In the wheat corn and alfalfa alfaU belts KLAN ISSUE REARS HEAD Watson Walson is being called upon to lo defend himself on on still sill another count that of being a political acrobat acrobat acrobat ac ac- ac- ac robat at Washington His Iii more spoken plain-spoken foes assail him as a apolitical apolitical apolitical political hypocrite In so depicting depicting depict depict- ing him they have in ht mind Jim's Jims s chameleon record on Coo CoolIdge administration administration administration ad ad- ministration policies The senator like G 0 O P P. congressional candidates candidates candi candi- d dates tes far and wide vide is earnestly thundering that the president nt must be bo s sustained and vindicated by y the there re election re-election of pC devoted Republican house and What Watsons Watson's Opponents are daring him to ex explain explain ex- ex explain plain Is why he did not sustain and vindicate Mr Coolidge on the world court and farm legislation So far Jim has has has' not deigned to to notice embarrassing questions re regarding regarding regarding re- re garding a loyalty loyally which he asks indianans nans to lo observe but which at V Washington he himself had n no compunction about aboul withholding Whai V-Whai Vh t Is' Is destined is-destined s dest Ined to tobe be the big big- best bombshell of r all all those those- de designed de- de signed to explode Watson is timed to be fired when the campaign Is Isa isa a little farther advanced A succeeding succeeding suc suc- c dispatch will deal with wilh that phase of or the Indiana contest It concerns the the Ku Klux Klan This is the first of of the senators senator's trio of senatorial fights since the invisible In empire obtained a stranglehold on Indiana Republic Republic- Since D. D C C. C Stephenson lato late grand drag dragOn n of ot the hooded order for the Hoosier realm entered en entered entered en- en upon a life sentence for murder murder murder mur mur- der Indiana Klan stock has experienced experienced experienced a visible slump Evidently Senator Walson's Watsons enemies think the time has come tome to take the lid lidoff lidoff off Klux domination of Indiana politics politics politics pol pol- I and show up the system of which Watson Vatson and his friends have been the alleged beneficiaries |