Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1914 — DONN ROBERTS’S CANDIDACY. [ARTICLE]

DONN ROBERTS’S CANDIDACY.

The candidacy of Donn M. Roberts, notorious mayor of Terre Haute, for the Democratic nomination for governor, is one of the most powerful influences in the present campaign in behalf of the Republican state ticket.' Reports from every section of the state are to the effect that law-loving Democrats, thoroughly disgusted at this, the latest move of the brewery organization to strangle their party, have decided to “clean house” this year by voting the straight Republiean ticket. They figure, it is said, that it would be better to do this in 1914 than to wait until the presidential election in 1916. ,r It is said that the feeling among Democrats in southern Indiana is particularly bitter against the candidacies of Roberts and Homer L. Cook, who was the speaker of. tote 1913 legislature which went down in the history of Indiana as one of the worst ever known. In the Second district the candidacy of "Bill" Cullop for congress is also distasteful to a large per cent of the Democratic voters. "The candidacy , of Donn Roberts is one of the beet assets of the Republicans of Indiana this year," remarked a Democratic traveling -man after his return from a three-weeks tour through the southern part of the state. “I have heard hundreds of Democrats openly announce their intention of voting the straight Republican ticket this year. I firmly believe that the candidacies of Roberts and Cook will cost the Democratic state ticket 10,090 votes.”