Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1914 — Progressive Addressed Republican County Convention. [ARTICLE]
Progressive Addressed Republican County Convention.
Rochester, Ind., June 23.—During the Fulton county republican convention Saturday the chairman announced that there was a man in the audience who wris a progressive voter two years ago and who wished to address the convention on the reasons for his return to th* republican party.. Dr. Wilson A Smith, of Rochester, was introduced, and he aroused the convention to cheers in an address of ten minutes. Probably a fourth of the delegates in this republican convention were progressives in 1912. The attendance at the convention was the largest in years.
