A politician once said that between elections Hoosiers firmly believe in a four-party system: two Republican and two Democratic. For the past 18 months Indiana's two Republican parties have been illustrating the proposition by engaging in a bitter political war. Last week, in the wake of primaries that shifted control of the party organization, there were few signs of a truce.
Ever since June 1952, when Lawyer George North Craig of Brazil, Ind. went after the nomination for governor, Indiana's two Senators, Bill Jenner and Homer Capehart, have opposed him. Craig, onetime national commander of the American Legion, won the...
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