Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 214, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1912 — DEMOCRATS RENOMINATE CORPORATION LAWYER. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS RENOMINATE CORPORATION LAWYER.

John B. Peterson, of Crown Point, Attorney fer Corporations, Named After Bitter Fight \ Tenth district democrats, at Lafayette Thursday nominated John B. Peterson, of Crown Point, for congress. A stormy session preceded the nomination of Peterson, and Elmore Barce, of Fowler, asssumed the role of Bryan at the Baltimore convention and branded Peterson as a corporation lawyer and consequently unfit to represent progressive democracy. Barce was quite bitter in his denunciation and insisted that the convention nominate a clean man, one who had never haem-the-tool of a trust. Barce was for Michael Duffy, of Benton county. John Ross, of Lafayette, followed in the same line of argument. He said that Tippecanoe county had expected to name Mayor Durgan, who had been fighting the trusts but that it would not bring his name before the convention if Peterson was to be considered, Mayor Durgan himself said "I have been sighing corporations jfor ten years, too long to be in favor of a corporation lawyer.” Lawrence Becker, of Hammond, placed Mr. Peterson before the convention, and told of all the good things that would come to Lake county if he was elected. A rather queer thing in the convention was the fact that the Jasper county delegates all voted for Peterson, who was the Murphy candidate, while at Monon recently they fought Tony Anheir, who was the Murphy candidate for state senate. Newton county cast 2 for Peterson and 4 for Duffy. Tippecanoe county cast its solid vote for Duffy and Lake and Porter cast their votes for Peterson. The fight came early in the day, when District Chairman Murphy, of White county, and Frank Davis, of Brook, were pitted against each other for the chairmanship of the convention. Murphy was the reactionary candidate and Davis the progressive candidate. The reactionaries won by a vote of 62 to 42. This was a part of the program to nominate Attorney Peterson. Many democrats left the convention bitterly disappointed because the convention had slipped backward right, in the face of warning and named the kind of a man that the rank and file of the party has been figting. In the speech of John Ross before the convention hq said: “Tippecanoe county had a candidate but since Mr. Peterson has announced his candidacy, Tippecanoe county’s candidate’s name will not be ed. We have always been opposers of the trusts and corporations and would like to see a man nominated who is free of all stain. It was published in the press during Mr. Peterson’s campaign two years ago that he had been a corporation lawyer. This charge was never denied; the truth is Mr. Peterson 4 admitted he had been a small corporation lawyer.” Attorney Edward P. Honan, of Rensselaer, is said to have worn a strong “Barcus is willing” smile on fils face, but his, own delegation did nqt prer sent his name. His Labor Day speech at Lafayette was a preliminary step in the direction of the nomination, according to one of the Jasper county delegates, but there was nothing doing along this line. 1 N. Littleflelld served on the resolutions committee and Simon Jj’endig, of Wheatfleld, on the rules coinmittee.