Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1912 — FRED A. SIMS STATE REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN. [ARTICLE]

FRED A. SIMS STATE REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN.

First of AH He* Will Work lot the - Success of Ticket —Sounds Like Old-Fashioned Doctrine. Proposing, first of all, to work for: the election of the republican ticket, leaving the making of the ticket to the voters pf the republican party, the new republican state central committee began the campaign of 1912 Friday by electing Fred A. Sims, of Frankfort, Ninth District, state chairman; Will H. Hays, of Sullivan, Second District, vice chairman, and Frank E. .Stalnaker, of Indianapolis, Seventh District, treasurer. The new committee decided on March 26 as for the holding of a special state convention at which the four delegates at large to the national convention will be named, together with four alternate delegates at large,, two electors and two con tingent electors at large. Each district, for itself, will determine the time and method of electing delegates to the national convention, two to a district, and the selection of one elector and one contingent elector to the district. The committee did not select a date for the Regular state convention for the naming of a state ticket. This question was left to be acted on at the next meeting; of 'the committee, to be held on the call of Chairman Sims. The committee left the appointmen* of a secretary of Chairman Sims. It is understood that Ernest Thomas, pf Rushville, has-been considered in connection with the secretaryship, but that Mr. Thomas Unformed his friends that he would not be able to take the position. * ' Edward T. Staley, of Tipton, editdr of the Tipton Advocate, has been suggested as a republican who is peculiarly fitted and equipped to do the work of the secretary under Chairman Sitris. The reorganization meeting of the state committee of Republicans was marked by the presence of an aggressive county option sentiment The chief topic of discussion among the republican workers who gathered to watch the new committee start the party ball, was tl|e option issue. The option advocates were on the ground, and they were talking straight from the shoulder on the matter of putting a demand for county option in the republican state platform. When the question of a late state convention came up in the meeting of’ the committee, it is said that the committeemen who counseled deliberation and forethought on the convention date, were men hailing from districts where county option is a clogan with a large element of voters.