| Show I INTEREST Ef IS KEEN SEN IN HOOSIER STATE I NAME OF SUCCESSOR TO SENATOR SENATOR SENA SENA- TOR RALSTON IS 18 EAGERLY WATCHED AT CAPITOL Beveridge Senator Ex-Senator Beveridge l Is II Choice Of Administration Official Gover Gave nor Would Like Toga For Himself Washington awaits Washington tho the appointment of a new senator from Indiana with an interest deeper deep deep- er than attaches to the mere tilling filling of one vacancy among six ninety sen The news spread through the country country coun try from Washington and Indianapolis is prevailingly to the effect that ex ex- Senator Beveridge will get the ap ap- That Is the chief cause of national interest for the appointment appointment appoint appoint- ment of an unknown would mean lit lit- tie tle to the country or to Washington Some who have taken pains to probe far into the states of mind of those whose counsel will affect the appointment appoint ment went do not share the common expectation expectation ex ex- that Mr Ir will get It The candidates described as more likely Include nn an state ex chairman of ot the Republican party and ex district attorney a prominent lawyer lawyer law law- yer and a son of the late Charles W. W Fairbanks Some of the mean much outside of Indiana It has bas not been much mentioned but It is a fact that the possibilities most to the front at this moment Include In clude elude the governor of the state him self Governor Jackson is under pressure to send himself to the senate senate senate sen sen- ate at least that Is the phrase in which the idea Is conveyed to those who inquire The process would con corio con con- mist 1st of resignation from the governorship governorship gover and then appointment to the senate by the lieutenant governor those steps being made possible by bythe bythe bythe the well oiled amenities now existing in Indiana politics However everything every everything thing so BO far is surmise The pr present sent fact Is Is the question has not been settled settled settled set set- and there is a a- program of conferences conferences conferences con con- during the present week out of which a different result may come Washington's curiosity and Interest lie le In the possibility that Mr Dever Bever Idge may be named To the admInistration administration administration adminis admInis- and to the Republican party any other appointee would be a vote Tote But Dut Mr BeverIdge would be a a. voice Tf Tt It la I. is rt n common judgment that the ow v greatest present need of ot President Coolidge the administration and the Republican party Is to have someone in the senate willing to fight Mr CoolIdge's Coolidge's Coolidge's Cool Cool- idge's battles and be able to do It Some Republican senators like Gillette Gil lette and Butler Dutler from Mr Coolidge's own state of Massachusetts are loyal loya and willing to fight his battles but bu butare butare are not able because they are too new in the senate and are not speech- speech makers Others who are able and on whom the party Darty duty would normally lie lie lack willingness for reasons which vary with the Republican senator senator senator sena sena- tor whose capacity to throw his heart beart Into defense of Mr Coolidge is Impaired Impair ImpaIr- ed by the senators senator's own presidential ambitions The net of it Is that Mr Coolidge Is less defended by his party leader leaders In the senate Is more at the mercy of the opposition than any president ot of either party since Grover Cleve Cleve- land In the rejection by the senate seriate last spring of Mr Coolidge's appointee tee for attorney general in his cabinet cab inet met he be suffered a serious setback |
