Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 231, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1914 — DEMOCRATIC PARTY SENDS SOS CALL [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC PARTY SENDS SOS CALL

Urgent Appeal Made to Washington to Send Spellbinders Home to Save State This Fall. ~ r ’Washington, Sept. 28.—That ginger from the Woodrow Wilson ginger bottle is badly needed in the Indiana democratic state campaign is the report that reached the Indiana congressional delegation from leaders at home, who are sending an S O S call to the salons at Washington to come back to Indiana and supply the much-need?d pep. The call is causing a great deal of mental distress in the delegation, for the congressmen realize that a one-leeged man has as good a show in a marathon as they have getting home until President Wilson says the word. A sensation has just been created in the congressional delegation by a letter just received from a prominent state officer and appointee of governor Ralston, who sends an urgent appeal to Senator Shively and the Indiana members of the lower house to bet back to Indiana just as soon as they can break away from Washington. This official says that undoubtedly the candidates of at least eight Indiana members of the house are in a bad iway and he holds out the danger of a slaughter in the delegation unless something is done. He declares that the republicans are more active than they have been for ten years, enthusiastic and well organized and that a great deal of dissatisfaction exists among the rank and file of the democratic party in Indiana over" the candidacies of Homer L. Cook and Donn M. Roberts. He mentions the candidacies of Representatives Korbley, Barnhart, Gray, Morrison, Peterson, Cullop, Cline and Moss as being in jeopardy. He says that St. Joseph county is in the worst shape for the democrats it ever has been and. that democratic fences are in a bad fix in Marion county. Us« our Classified Column.