Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1912 — Democrats Selected Delegates To Various Conventions. [ARTICLE]

Democrats Selected Delegates To Various Conventions.

Jasper county' democrats met , in convention Saturday afternoon in the east court room of the court house and selected delegates to the judicial, representative, senatorial, congressional and state conventions. The most radical action of the convention was the endorsement of thecandidacy of John W. Boehne, of Evansville, for governor. Mr. Boehne is the representative of the Ist district of Indiana in the national legislature and has for some weeks made an open attack on the candidacy of Sam Ralston, of Lebanon, because Ralston has the support of Tom Taggart and Crawford Fairbanks and all the other brewery and saloon interests in the -state. That Jasper county democrats are not in sympathy with the controlling element of their party In Indiana is clearly shown by the fact that Boehne was given their endorsement, and It is probable that a large number of them will never be reconciled to sup port a candidate bearing the TaggartFairbanks stamp of aproval even Boehne withdraws from the race as now seems probable he will do. The democratic county convention followed its old plan of sending the ring leaders to all the Important con ventions, and a stereotyped list of a dozen names would include about all the democrats in the county that have a ghost of a show of ever attending the state convention as delegates. To begin with County Chairman Littlefield and Secretary Hunt wefe chosen, then comes Frank Fisher and George R. Erwin, Frank Welsh and John C. McCollough. Mr. Erwin Is a brother in-law of Chairman Littlefield and Mr. McCollough runs a democratic newspaper in Remington and it looked like a newspaperman ought to go along and there has generally been some objection to sending Editor Babcock, ofring to his disposition to try to boss the job. Frank Welsh, George Stemble and J. A. McFarland go because of the custom of naming them for every state convention in the past twenty years. The only peculiar thing in the bunch is the absence of the name of Attorney Honan, who for some reason has been handed a few uppercuts by the democrats now in the saddle during recent weeks. But Ed is good natured and seems to overlook the little quips and to continue feeling tolerably good. Ed had the distinction of making a speech at the Jackson banquet in Lafayette recenHy that put him in the class of “cross of gold and crown of thorns” orators and local democrats are credited with saying that they feared he might undertake to repeat the speech at the state convention ayd cause a riot. To prevent this, Felix Erwin, of Union township, who Is being groomed for a county ticket place by his brother-in-law, the county chairman and by Editor Babcock, was sent, so that he can get a few lessons in Taggart-Fairbanks politics. The delegates to the congressional convention are: Simon Fendig, J. B. Erwin, Joseph Nagle, Arthur Tuteur, Chas. E. Sage, W. D. Bringle, O. K. Rainier and B. F. Alter. To the senatorial convention: Henry Misch, W. D. Hershman, Dolph Day, Arnold Luers, Jacob Wagner, James Washburn, W. H. Barkley, Frank Garriott. To the representative convention: Thos. Maloney, S. D. Clark, Frank Schroer, Joseph Halligan, Dennis O*Reilley, A. H. Dickinson, Frank Fenwick and E. P. Lane, Judicial': Harry Remley, George W. Casey, Joel Spriggs, Eli Gerber, Dan O’Connor, Chas. W. Littlefield, Thos. Crockett and N. S. Bates. The county central committee decided on Monday, April Ist, as the date for holding the county convention.