Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1912 — TAFT BUTTON'S BY THE PECK. [ARTICLE]

TAFT BUTTON'S BY THE PECK.

Taft and other Republican campaign buttons have been distributed over Indiana by the peck from headquarters of the State Central Committee at Indianapolis, over 50,000 of the insigna having been sent out in the last week. The headquarters has been fairly swamped with requests for buttons from scores of counties, cities and towns, and new supplies are being distributed as rapidly as they can be obtained from the manufacturers. Tons of campaign literature are also being sent to county chairmen for distribution to voters. Among the documents chief in demand are pamphlets wtfich discuss in detail the contested cases of delegations at the Chicago convention when President Taft was renominated. Thousands of copies of Woodrow Wilson's views on labor questions, as given in Congress by Representative Rodenburg, of Illinois, have been scattered broadcast over the state. Countless numbers of pamphlets showing the attitude of the Republican party toward the colored race have been distributed among the negro voters. Large pictures of President Taft.and Col. W. T. Durbin have been sent out from State headquarters by tens of thousands and they are now decorating windows and campaign club quarters all over the Hoosier land. The present campaign is regarded by the Republicans as one of education, rather than one of bonfires and hurrah, and through literature and speakers the state committee is making a strong effort to get sound argument on all political questions before the thinking people of Indiana.