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Last week a man sat on an Indiana front porch, stuck his thumbs in his waistcoat as is his habit, put his straw hat on the back of his head. Grey-mustachioed, wrinkle-eyed Tom Taggart, owner of French Lick Springs and Democratic boss of Indiana meditated...
...Overseer Taggart returned home with his sheen but little dimmed by a Roosevelt victory. Curiously, inexplicably he has retained his power-one of the oldtime "Bosses" who figure in a national way. With Charles F. Murphy (Tammany), and Roger Sullivan (Illinois), Tom Taggart in 1912 manoeuvred so as to control apparently the balance of power in the famed Baltimore Convention, to the academic Mr. Wilson's distaste. Indicted in 1915 for election frauds, he nevertheless was appointed Senator by Governor Ralston the next year to fill the unexpired term of Senator Shively. Again in 1924 politicians journeyed to French...
...back as far as 1916. In that year Harry S. New fought with James E. Watson for the Republican senatorial nomination. New won and was elected. In 1916 senator Benjamin F. Shively died, and Tom Taggart (Democratic Boss) was appointed to the vacancy until the next election day. Later the same year Taggart was defeated by Watson. In 1922 Senator New was faced in the primaries by Albert J. Beveridge, Senator (1899-1911,) and Arthur R. Robinson, a young Indianapolis lawyer. Beveridge won in the primary, but the New men helped to weaken his position. As a result Beveridge...
...will fight one of them for his place?probably Robinson because he is weaker. And Governor Ed. Jackson may come into the fray by resigning and running for the Senate. With four Republicans, or at least three, scrapping for two offices, there will be a bitter fight, and Tom Taggart or some Democrat of his choice will have a good chance of taking a Senate seat, as Ralston did three years ago from Beveridge...
...first ventures in politics were not encouraging. In 1888 he was defeated for State Senator. In 1896 and 1-898 he was defeated for Secretary of State of Indiana. In 1908 his good friend Tom Taggart tried to nominate him for Governor. But other Democrats revolted, trying to unseat Boss Taggart. They deadlocked the Convention, which finally turned to a compromise candidate-Thomas R. Marshall...