Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — Tenth District Democrats Hold Political Conference in Gary. [ARTICLE]

Tenth District Democrats Hold Political Conference in Gary.

Attorney E. P. Honan and Editors Jas. W. McEwen and F. E. Babcock went to Gary this Saturday morning to attend a conference of Democrats of the 10th congressional district. State Chairman Stokes Jackson, John B. Peterson, the democratic candidate for congress and other prominent politicians will be there, Including the trio that went up to hand Jasper county over to Chairman Murphy. Mr. McEwen, who conducts the old reliable Simon pure democratic news-, paper, and Mr. Babcock, who entered the field a dozen years or so ago, do not often travel together and it |s hardly probable that they will frame up a partnership while away by which the Democratic-Sentinel will absorb the Jasper County Democrat, acquiring a half interest in the business, while Babcock would thus entitle himself to a share in the glory of running one of the oldest democratic organs on the district and have as a partner a sage to serve as a balance wheel when he begins his fall campaign. This is not probable and observers at the morning train were surprised to find that Babcock had removed his traditional mustache, doubless for the I urpose of removing the last possibility that he might be taken for his fellow publisher. Possibly the removal may have been a desire to get his money’s worth at a 15-cent barbershop, or possibly it was because he didn’t want to get any foam on it while visiting the now tremendously moist city of Gary. —; / The above comments are simply the indulgence of a little morning pasttime and we really believe that the motive behind the trip the three gentlemen took to Gary was a desire to save the country, with especial stress upon the 10th district, while the favorable location of the hall in whic:. the convention was held may have been some inducement. About the hall, the Hammond Times says: “Englehardt’s hall is a new one and is located on the second floor of the Tenth avenue and Broadway corner. There are saloons to the right of it, saloons to the left of it and saloons behind it and a saloon underneath it. Consequently the gathering will at least not be a dry one by any means.”