Show INTEREST IS KEEN IN ill HOOSIER HOOSIE fi STATE NAME OF SUCCESSOR TO SENA TOR ton RALSTON IS 18 EAGERLY WATCHED AT CAPITOL ex senator beveridge Is choice of 01 administration officials governor would like toga for himself washington washington awaits the appointment of a now senator from indiana with an interest deeper than attaches to the mere tilling filling of 0 one vacancy among ninety six senators a tors th the news spread through tho the country from washington and indianapolis Is prevailingly to tho the effect that ex senator beveridge Beverl dge will get tho the appointment that Is the chief cause ot of national interest for the appointment of an unknown would mean little to tho the country or to washington some who have taken pains to probe tar far into the states of mind of those whose counsel will affect tho appointment I 1 eat do not share the common expectation pec tation that mr beveridge will got get it the candidates described as more likely include an ex chairman of the party and ex district at ft torney korney a prominent lawyer ana and a s son a af 0 the late charies IV fairbanks some ot of the apportions mean much outside ot indiana it ft has not fiot been much marit toned nod but it Is a fact that tho the possibilities most to the front at this moment include c the governor of the state himself be if governor jackson Is under pressure to send himself to the senate at least that Is the phrase in which the idea Is conveyed to those who inquire the process would consist of resignation from the governorship por ship and then appointment to the se senate nate by the lieutenant governor those steps being made possible by the well oiled amenities now existing in indiana politics however everything so far Is surmise tho the present fact Is the question has not been set tied and there Is a program of conferences feren ces during the present week out of which a different result may come curiosity and interest lie in the possibility that mr beveridge may be named to the administration and to the republican party any other appointee would be a vote but mr beveridge would be a voice it Is common judgment that the greatest present need of president coolidge the administration and the republican party la Is to have someone in the senate willing to fight mr cool idros battles and be able to do it some republican senators like gillette gilletta and butler from mr Coolid own state of massachusetts are loyal and willing to tight fight his battles but are not able because they are too new in the senate and are not speech makers others who are able and on whom hom the party duty would normally lie lack willingness tor for reasons which vary with the republican senator whose capacity to throw his heart into defense of mr air coolidge Is impaired by the senators own presidential ambitions the net of it Is that mr coolidge Is ae less SE defended by his party leaders in the senate Is more at the mercy of f the opposition than any president of of either party since grover cleveland in the rejection by the senate last spring ot of mr air Coolid appointee tor for attorney general in his cabnet cabinet lie he suffered a serious setback |