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Show Indiana. Will Tom Taggaitbu able to swing Indiana into Hie Democratic column this fall is a que,t Ion that is agitating both Republicans and Democrats throughout the country. The editor of Tin: Rki'Uiilioan is a native of that State, familiar with past conditions, and during a recent visit was pleased to investigate the present situation as far as possible. What we don't know would till a book-but book-but In this respect we aie not dllfei-cnt dllfei-cnt from other prognostlcators on and olf the ground. However, It Is our candid belief that Mr.Taggart will not bo able to turn Indiana for Parker and Davis. Underoidinary conditions Mr. Taggart's personal popularity and political po-litical peispicaclty might work wonders wond-ers theie, but at the present time, the Democratic National Cliahman has arrayed against him the Fairbanks machine which Is hi the highest state of perfection. Theie Is at the head of the Republican State ticket a man ! whom Hooslers love, a vote getter tin-' equaled In any State, the Honorable J. i Frank Hanley, a man who has worked himself ftom the humblest walks of life to a seat In Congress, and this) from one of Indiana's strongest Democratic Demo-cratic districts. At the time of the stampede for Albert J. Heverldgc fori U. S. Senator, Mr. Hanley lacked bull ono vote of election. Mr. Hevcridgo'l was considered a possibility but not a probability. However, for some time the tension was very strong, and at the break Ilevcridge tose from the bottom of the J 1st and was elected. Mr.Hanley Is a campaigner of wonderful wonder-ful persuasiveness and gives the State i ticket a great advantage, although he has for an opponent Hon. John W. Kern, mentioned for the vice- presidency presi-dency on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Taggart will, in all probability, dump Into Indiana huge sums of money, and in that State money goes a long way, but In Harry S. New, one of the Republican Re-publican National Committee, Mr.' Taggaithasa foe equal to himself in I anj respect and one equally familiar with the Hoosler votei's love of the golden shekel. The only friction among Indiana Republicans (lining the past few yeais has been between the Faiibanks and Heveildge faction-,. However, Ilevcridge Ilevc-ridge feels that Faiibanks is now shelved, that he himself is senior i Senator and in line for the piesldeney. hence this little dilleiencu is patched up satisfactory. With Mr. Fairbanks as a candidate for vice-president and his organl.at Ian bejond compaie:wilh Hon. J. Fiank Hanley at the head of the State ticket; Harry S. New as a member of thu National Committee, thu tank and Hie of the Dumnciatio party dissatisfied with the non-com-mltal platform on which the Democratic Demo-cratic candidates aie making their tight, Mr. Taggait's personal popularity popular-ity and most stienuous ellorts will hardly ghe him the plcasuie he most deshes, thecaptuie of Indiana. Rut Mr. Taggatt need not feel the matter too keenly. He can lethe to his million mil-lion dollar hotel at Fiench Lick and there diown his sorrows in that vile extract of nature that rises from Pluto and Proserpine, guaranteed to cure eveiytliing from a bioken heart to giastlciitus. The feeling of Indiana Democrats Is well expressed by William W. Tim-moiids, Tim-moiids, for thirty-live years editor and publisher of the Poitland Sun, the Jay countj democtallcotgan.and now publishing pub-lishing thu Satuidav adveitlser, who says: Alton 11. Parker, of New York, was nominated at St. Louis. The Cleveland ie-oigaiilers aie now in the saddle In the Democratic paity, and with Wall street and thu mooted Interests of the Fast at their backs they hope to win out at the polls this fall. If they win, what good can come to thu common people? 'In Indiana it Is safu lo say that fully two-thirds of the Democrats aic against Cleveland and the rcorganU- ers. In Jay county it can be said In full truth that three-fourths of all the Democrats ate against Cleveland and his policy. These Democrats feel that they have been mlsieprcsciitcd, and a large per cent of them will resent re-sent tills slap by either not voting at all or voting for Roosevelt. 'I am not a Tom Taggart' will be heard on all sides. The Democratic party of today has left all that is sacred In party principles and has resolved Itself Into a party for the olllce and the spoils. The rank and flic of the Democratic party will not stand for this. "1 predict that Indiana will give Roosevelt 75,000 plurality. In Jay county the pluralty will be fiOO against the Cleveland rcorganl.cri. I will talk some more along this line. I am not a Tom Taggart democrat." |