Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1911 — Vice President Sherman and Others of Prominence at Rushville. [ARTICLE]

Vice President Sherman and Others of Prominence at Rushville.

While the republicans were holding a smoker and love feast Tuesday night at Rushville at which Vice-President James S. Sherman was the principal figure, democratic leaders, who had gone to that city to pay honor to the nation’s official, were holding a meeting of their own. At the republican smoker, all of the speakers pleaded for a united party for the campaign of 19A2 in which it ;was predicted tbat President Taft would again head the ticket. Vice-President Sherman, Joseph G. Cannon, James E. Watson and Representative E. D. Crumpacker delivered stirring addresses. The day’s meetings drew large crowds, about 2,500 attending the smoker. It is estimated that more than 5,000 heard Vice-President Sherman in . the afternoon when he addressed the public jn the court hoase yard.