Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1910 — DEMOCRATS HAD A WARM TIME AT BENTON CONTENTION. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS HAD A WARM TIME AT BENTON CONTENTION.

Benton County Review Resents Interference of District Chairman at The county Convention. District Chairman Murphy, of White county, seems to have a happy faculty of “starting something” in -the ranks of his own party. The Benton Review, the democratic organ of Benton county, instead of recognising his authority as a party leader, handles him without gloves for his offleiousness in behalf of Taggart’s plans. Speaking of his part in the county convention at Fowler, it says: “At last the Taggart representative, Mr. Murphy, jumped to his feet and made a long harangue against the gov-, ernor’s and former democratic platforms, regardless of the fact that Mr. Murphy is a resident of White county, and his sticking his nose into the ioeal affairs of this county was uninvited, and a piece of ill taste and colossal impudence seldom seen in a local convention. Murphy came over from Brookston early in the day and has been, in company with Mike Duffy, fighting democratic principals.” To enlighten the public about the company Chairman Murphy was associating with, Editor Roby furtiny remarks: « As to Mike Duffy, some time ago, the Review took occasion to call attention to the fact that he was a traitor, a liar and a sneak.” With this gentle zephyr from Bentcn county still singing in his ears, Chairman Murphy went to Indianapolis and as a member of the sub-committee on rules, got still further into the limelight by helping fix up a plan for the state convention that almost set the anti-Taggart men wild with rage and caused the stormy interview Monday between John E. Lamb and Stokes Jackson in the Denison hotel lobby. Our Charlie is a very aggressive district chairman, but is very careless with his gun and is liable to do as. much execution in his own ranks as upon the enemy.