Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 208, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1914 — ABSENT WHEN NOMINATED; REFUSES TO MAKE RAGE [ARTICLE]

ABSENT WHEN NOMINATED; REFUSES TO MAKE RAGE

Democrat at Rockville Declined to , Have Trustee Nomination From .Bull Moose Party.

Rockville, Ind., Aug. 31.—Five Bull Moose agitators gathered in the back room of a local law office last week and after a short session announced that Robert Davidson, democratic trustee of Adams township, had been nominated by the progressives for trustee. Word to this effect was printed in every paper the/scheming politicians could impose upon. The Terre Haute Star and the Indianapolis Star said that Mr. Davidson was present and accepted the nomination. Mr. Davidson was not present and he did not accept the nomination. In a letter to the Parke county \Bull Moose chairman, Mr. Davidson said: “While appreciating the honor conferred upon me by your party in township convention on Thursday, Aug. 27th, by unanimously nominating me to make tile race for township trustee of Adams township, I feel it my duty as a democrat, to .decline this nomination. “I deplore very much the fact that such wide publicity has been given the matter by publication in the Terre Haute Star and Indianapolis Star of August 28th. The Star says that I made a short talk in the convention, when in reality I was not present at all, and did not know of the atetion of the convention until a number of your party who were present called upon me and informed me that I had been nominated.”