Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1914 — Roosevelt Supporter Refuses To Continue a Bull Moose. [ARTICLE]

Roosevelt Supporter Refuses To Continue a Bull Moose.

Brazil, Ind., June 29.-Dr. A T. Spears, progressive chairman 'of Clay county, has received the following letter of resignation from vear oir. nouncements that I have been nominated as a candidate of the 2nd district in Olay county. I desire to herewith tender my resignation as a candidate, having been put on the ticket without being solicited and to say with reference to the present campaign that in my Judgment a serious mistake was made by the leaders of the progressive party in not agreeing with the republicans on a Joint ticket in the interests of the taxpayers of this county. I voted for Roosevelt two years ago and was a champion of the bull moose cause; I did not like the Chicago convention. But it is my opinion that the causes for the organization of the bull moose party, have passed and that the best interests of the country demand that we should air vote together. From now on I am a progressive-republi-can and shall vote to cause the enactment of republican principles in this country, believing,that they are the best for the business and manufacturing Interests, and therefore the best for my community.” The Junior Aid Society of the Christian church will meet this evening with Mrs. L. H, Hamilton. A nice shower this morning will be a considerable aid to garden truck and oats and corn. It was a drizzling rain but continued for an hour or more. Walter Atkinson, confined in the Warren county Jail at Williamsport on a charge of horse stealing, took his life Tuesday morning by discharging a stick of dynamite in his mouth and tearing the back of his head off. He left a note declaring his innocence and saying that he could not face the world after the disgrace of his arrest.