Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1912 — Brother Babcock Will Be Supporter of Wilson Ticket [ARTICLE]

Brother Babcock Will Be Supporter of Wilson Ticket

Brother Babcock has decided to, smother his personal views and td support the Wilson & Marshall ticket, distasteful as it is to him, and over the signature of W. R. Nowels, with whom he had a short but spirited discussion about the Baltimore situation recently, it is stated that he never threatened to bolt the Bryan dictated choice of the convention. Mr. Nowels states that he was going to the postoffice after his mail the morning following Bryan’s spectacular charge of “big -business” domination of the New York delegates. Mr. Nowels had read the morning paper and had talked with a few democrats who approved the action of the great commoner. He exchanged greetings with the editor and remarked, “Well, Bryan is going right after them, isn’t he?” The editor replied, Yes, he’s making a damned fool of himself.” This reply did not bluff Mr. Nowels, however, who has always been a firm believer in Bryan, and he said. “Weil’ I think he is doing just right, and I believe that when you talk with the democrats of the county you will find that they do not think he is making a ‘damned fool’ of himself either.” Mr. Nowels says that at this point the editor said that he was opposed to Bryan’s attitude and said that he was going to “fight” him. Mr. Nowelsinformed him that if he did he would lose a lot of subscribers. Soon after the discussion, in which the editor showed some anger, Mr. Nowels spoke of the incident with democratic admirers of Bryan. One of them informed the editor of The Republican, stating that Babcock had said he would fight the ticket if Bryan controlled it. The man also said that there would be an uprising of democrats if he did. And he didn’t. He now proposes to swallow the ticket, Bryan influence, Tom Marshall and all, which means the stifling of his personal opinion to avoid the loss of business. It is well known that Editor Babcock favored 'the nomination of Governor Harmon, of Ohio, who was probably the most pronunced reactionary candidate before the conveption, and whom Bryan had fought from the start He had long ago given editorial endorsement to Harmon, much to the disappointment of the local Bryan admirers. He had also lost no opportunity to take a dig at Governor Marshall, not because Marshall had extended clemency to Bader, but because the editor don’t hold his ability in very high regard. The ticket is, of course, a great disappointment to him, but he has decided to “be good” and to avoid any chance of a subscription cancellation. Mr. Novels’ remark proved very timely, and to him will belong the credit of keeping the county organ lined up for the New Jersey governor.