Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 242, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — WITHHOLDS HIS NAME FROM MOOSE TICKET [ARTICLE]

WITHHOLDS HIS NAME FROM MOOSE TICKET

Ellas Arnold Will Not Hoke Race For Commissioner—Files Statement ♦ ■ With County Clerk. State of Indiana, Jasper County, ss: To the Board of Election Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana: Gentlemen: ( Ton are hereby requested not to eertify my name on the progressive ticket as a candidate for the -office of Commissioner of the Second Commissioners’ District of said County, as I have heretofore requested the chairman and secretary of said party not to use my name, as a candidate for said office. , ' Respectfully Submitted,

ELIAS ARNOLD.

The above communication was received this Wednesday morning by County Clerk Perkins. It is understood that Mr. Arnold had given no encouragement to the selection of himself by the committeemen and that he has not favored the naming of a ticket by the third party. Mr. Arnold was a Roosevelt admirer and has been encouraged by the progressives to join the third party movement, but he has not considered that his action in so doing bound him in any way to go back on the republican county ticket which he helped to name. And his action is thoroughly honorable and exactly what his friends and admirers felt certain he would do. Mr. Arnold doubtless thinks as we all do that whatever opposition the democratic party has in succeeding years must come from a united party. We believe that that party will be the republican party. But if It is not, and If the new party becomes so powerful as to make the republican party unable to cope with democracy, then we must unite against democracy under the new name. The action of the few men w.ho named a ticket is far from honorable, it has received mueh criticism from men prominently identified with the progressive movement because of their admiration of Roosevelt or Beveridge or of the platform adopted by the party. These men have regarded their action in helping to name the republican ticket as In honor binding them to support the ticket at election. Some others were opposed to the method of naming a ticket. They said that if a ticket was to be named they thought it should be an open matter and let every person run that wanted to instead of meeting in secret and “making” a ticket Mr. Arnold’s action commends him to the people as a man who stands firmly for fairness and the square deal and The Republican can not see how any man who had taken part In the convention and helped to name the splendid ticket which the republicans put out could do anything else.