Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 March 1912 — Hammond Editor Would Be Qualified National Delegate. [ARTICLE]

Hammond Editor Would Be Qualified National Delegate.

Mr. Percy A. Parry, editor of the Lake County Times, is being urged by his friends as a delegate to the Republican National Convention and it seems to us that he would in every respect make an excellent man for the place. Rensselaer and Jasper county people should have an especially good feeling toward Percy Parry and we believe they will express If by supporting his candidacy. Mr. Parry lived in Crown Point before he went to Hammond. He came here on several occasions a few years ago to report athletic events and he was always fair with local teams in his reports. He went to Hammond as the city editor of the Lake County Times at a period when Hammond had never had the distinction of having a real newspaper. He did not know the ropes of metropolitan journalism to a very great extent but he did know that eternal vigilance is the price of success and he applied himself to his business with all the energy and devotion within him. The Times grew from a puny, struggling daily to a great newspaper; it branched out to include not only Hammond but all Lake county and all the lake region. It secured live correspondents in every busy industrial center in the fast developing county and people learned to recognize that The Times was a true reflection of what was happening. That made The Times wanted in every home, made the read ers look forward to its coming, caused them to respect its opinions. Percy Parry soon proved that he was a newspaperman of talent and he proved that his talents were not limited to the news gathering field. He had become a force ih the presentation of issues of vital importance to the residents of the great territory his paper represented. He defended the right in all matters, he was always for national reforms, he was always against graft and immorality and he expressed himself fearlessly and forcefully, and he carried the “region” to a better plane of living. He was made the managing editor and for several years he has controlled the policy of’ the paper in every way, and The Times has continued to grow and Parry has kept his balance and no man in all Indiana has a greater influence with his clientele of readers. He is a republican at all times and. his paper has helped to carry Lake county for the republicans many times. Ernest Shortridge, clerk of Lake county, is a former Jasper county boy. He found Percy Parry’s support a great aid in his campaign. He is also a friend of Charley Daugherty and Henry Whittaker, former jasper county boys who are in politics in lake county and of Attorney Hodges, who as special prosecutor has been trying the Gary graft cases., This makes us nearer to hjm than we otherwise might be, and The Republican feels that the delegates to the district convention at Hammond cannot do better than to support Percy A. Parry for national delegate. Francis T. Hord, of Columbus, Ind., attorney general, of Indiana, from 1882 to 1886 and one of the state’s most prominent lawyers, jurists and politicians, died late Thursday night at the home of his son-in-law, Russell T. Byers, in Indianapolis. Death was due to bronchial pneumonia, from which he had been suffering ten days.