Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 161, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1914 — FORMER DEMOCRATS THROUGH WITH PARTY [ARTICLE]

FORMER DEMOCRATS THROUGH WITH PARTY

Convinced That Polity is Wrong and That Crawford Fairbanks, «t al, Control pf Party Is Evil.

Indianapolis, Ind., July . 9.—Two democrats, brothers, one a working man from Muncie, and the other the proprietor of a store in Indianapolis, dropped ■ into republican state headquarters in the Hotel Severin the -other afternoon for a chat with L. W. Henley, secretary off the republican state committee. Both of them made it perfectly plain that they are through with the democratic party. “I have been convinced," said the man from Muncie, “that the democratic notion about the tariff is wrong. Their policy brought hard times under Grover Cleveland and it is doing the same thing under Wilson. And again I do not like the democratic way of conducting the affairs of this state. They have shoved taxes up to an exorbitant figure and there is no promise of relief from this source. Again, I do not like the idea of voting -for candidates who owe their nomination to such men as Crawford Fairbanks, the big brewer, Tom Taggart and Donn Riberts, the notorious mayor of Terre Haute. The brew-, ery interests zfre in control of the democratic organization in Indiana and I am one democrat who will not stand for it. lam going to vote the straight republican ticket from now on. No more democracy for me.” His brother sanctioned his remarks with the exclamation, “Nor me!”

Herman Hordeman received a postal card from his brother, Father W. B. Hordeman, today. It was written in Rome and stated that he had visited the catacomb, seen trip. His uncle, William H. Hordeman, *of Idaho, has been making the trip with him and they will go together to Florence, where .Father Hordeman will stop to visit, while his uncle goes On to Germany to visit his old home and where Father Hordeman will join him later.