Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1913 — RALSTON IS GOVERNOR; MARSHALL RETIRES [ARTICLE]

RALSTON IS GOVERNOR; MARSHALL RETIRES

Former Assumes Official Duties as Chief Executive Immediately After His Inauguration.

The inauguration of Samuel'M. Ralston as governor of Indiana took place Monday, Jan. 13th. Mr. Ralston’s life ambition -has been to be governQr of the state and this was realized Monday, when, surrounded by his family ahd relatives and a few political friends ahd advisers, the oath of office. Governor Marshall delivered his final address and presented the new governor, who delivered his inaugural address. Governor Ralston at once assumed his duties as chief executive of the state and his first official act was to parole John Earner, aged 30 years, from the Indiana reformatory at 'Jeffersonville, who had been sentenced three years ago to serve a term of from one to fourteen years for grapd larcency. Barnard’s brother is' an eminent physician and medical professor in New York, and the paroled man was given over to his care, Barner is not the prisoner’s real name and it was not divulged.