Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — LEAD DONKEY TO THE COAST. [ARTICLE]

LEAD DONKEY TO THE COAST.

Election Leser Is Walking From Port* land, Maine, to Portland, Oregon, In Payment. Newburg, N. Y.—Paying an election bet. Benjamin H. Anderson, formerly general secretary of the chamber of commerce, and now secretary of the Butler Ad-men’s club of Butler. Pa., is walking from Portland. Me., to Portland, Oregon, leading a donkey. Ho passed through Newburg. Anderson is a strong admirer of Theodore Roosevelt, and was so certain that the colonel would be elected president that he made a wager with James Gillespie, a Democrat of Pittsburg, that Roosevelt would beat Wilson. The loser must walk from Portland. Me., to Portland, Oregon, leading behind him the animal emblematic of the victorious party. The wager -also includes the stipulation that the loser must call on the president of the United States. Anderson started from Portlands Me., March 4. He does not have to finish until March 4. 1914.