Democratic Sentinel, Volume 14, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1890 — DESERTS THE GRAND OLD PARTY. [ARTICLE]

DESERTS THE GRAND OLD PARTY.

A Leading Indiana Republican Unable to Support War Taxes Any Longer. [Jeffersonville (Ind.) special.] The expression of views radically opposed to Republican tariff doctrines by John Overmeyer, of North Vernon, one of the most prominent Republicans in the State, once Speaker of the House and Chairman of the State Central Committee, has created a profound sensation. When asked whether he proposed joining the Democracy Mr. Overmeyer said: “I have not thought of the consequences of my utterances, and care not what they label me. I shall use all my energies to overthrow the false system of high tariff. I shall say what I consider right, hurt whom it mae, and shall support the party advocating revenue tariff in State and national contests with all my power. I have been stumping and working since 1866, and up to recent years Republican speakers would as soon have preached infant baptism as a high tariff. In the last campaign I supported the candidate, but* not the platform." He was a delegate to the Chicago convention, and is a very able man, of the highest integrity, whose influence is felt throughout the State.