Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1914 — ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC PAPER FIGHTING COOK [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC PAPER FIGHTING COOK

New Albany Public Press Demands “Explanation % that Explains.”

NEW ALBANY, Ind., Oct. 7.—The Public Press of this city, the leading Democratic newspaper of Floyd county, In a recent issue backs up Editor Samuel B. Wells, of the Scottsburg Journal, in his demand for. an explanation of the nefarious things put over by the Taggart-Fairbanks machine In the last legislature. The Public Press wants an explanation from Homer L. Cook, the Democratic nominee for Secretary of State, who was speaker of the house in that eesaion, and makes it plain that it is not wearing the Taggart-Fairbanks-Rals-ton-Cook collar. Under the heading of “Ceok Should Come Through,” the Public Press says: •

“Editor Samuel B. Wells, of ths Bcottsburg Journal, seems to have stirred up a hornet’s nest by his criticisms of Speaker Homer L*- Cook, nominee for Secretary of State, with reference to the Lake County Recorder Bill that is printed in the Acts of 1812, when the bill was definitely postponed in tho House while it was on Its way through the House. “Speaker Cook recently made a partial explanation that did not explain, and the matter is as much beclouded now as it was when It was first made known. \

"The Public Press understands that efforts will be or have been made te get Speaker Cook off the ticket, as many prominent Democrats sure reported to be of the opinion that if he remains at the head of the ticket the whole ticket may be defeated. It is enrely the right of the people te know the truth about this matter and it should be to the Interest of the Democratic party and especially to Mr. Cook to come through with an explanation that will explain, instead of an evasion of the responsibility." Commenting on this editorial, Editors Wells, of the Scottaburg Journal, in this week’s Issue, says: "Read the editorial es Frank Qwin, Editor of the Public Preqs, of New Albany, about Homer Cook’s letter, which we published last week. Mr. Gwin has the right idea, that Cook's letter of explanation Is a letter that DOES NOT EXPLAIN. But Mr. Gwin, in making that remark, lays himself open to tho charge of Sam Ralston, as being a Democrat that belongs to the class of ‘Scurrilous Hounds,’ who are such according to Ralston because they demand the TRUTH and ALL THE TRUTH.**