Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 259, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1914 — WOULD YOU SUPPORT ANY MAN FOR OFFICE [ARTICLE]

WOULD YOU SUPPORT ANY MAN FOR OFFICE

If You Found Out That He Left a State and Changed His Name ' to Keep from Paying Alimony? This has been a very dean campaign. Probably the only questionable methods employed are those used by Herman C. Rogers, of Morocco, ■the nominee of the progressive party for judge of the circuit court. He has bought newspaper space to makechargies by innuendo and suggestion against Judge Hanley, the republican candidate, and William Darroch, the democratic candidate. He has alleged that .the court houses of the two counties are in the charge of a bi-partisan ring and are prostituted for corrupt purposes and that the square deal is not given out to people Who get into the courts.. Usually the mud Slinger has something in his own character that is being concealed and The Republican believes that the real character of every man should be known to the voters and that especially should a high standard of manhood and honor be demanded of the candidates for circuit judge. There has been a rumor afloat for a long time' that Herman C. Rogers, of Morodco, progressive candidate for judge, had deserted a wife and child in Ohio. The Republican today decided to find out what it could about this in order to let its readers know what manner of man it is who is assailing so bitterly Judge Hanley and William Darroch. In the Indiana Appellate Court Reports, Volume 46, page\so6, case No. 6,396, is a case entitled Rogers v. Rogers. It was appealed to the appellate court from the decision of Judge Hanley. Tne action is by Alta Rogers, of Ohio, against Carlon Rogers, alias Herman C. Rogers. The report recites the action in the court of Trumbull county, Ohio, where in granting Mrs. Rogers a divorce from Carlon Rogers the sum of $4 per week alimony had been given to her for the support of herself and child, she having been given the custody of her child. The record says: ‘The, sum of $4 a day 'to be by him paid in monthly installments, commencing on Felbniary 3, 1902, and continuing thereafter to become due and payable in the sum of $4 per week At the end of each month, until otherwise ordered by the court”

This judgment was against Carlon Rogers and was rendered in Humbolt county, Ohio. Rogers is to have disappeared and it was Some four years before he was located. He was then found at Morocco, Tpd., going by the name of Herman C. Rogers. He owed accumulated alimony in the sum of $832 for the support of his wife and child and she brought action alter he was located against Carlon Rogers, alias Herman C. Rogers. The Republican does not know what the allegations made by Mrs. Rogers in her complaint for divdrce were. But the charges were evidently sustained in his old home and the judgment giving his wife and child $4 per week indicates that the court' was fully satisfied that he was at fault and that his wife deserved alimony. The complaint can be procured and if, need (be, The Republican will be' glad to publish just what it alleges. \ A't the time the judgment was first rendered Rogers was not engaged in the practice of law. He later studied law in Indianapolis and located at Morocco. It is said that Charles FiTlius, former judge in Ohio, took deep interest in the case against Rogers and in behalf of his wife and that he personally did some detective work in locating Rogers and to Morocco and instigated the proceedings against >him to recover the alimony some four years due. The appellate court decided against Rogers and the judgment now stands against him in the Newton circuit court, although it is reported that some .sort of compromise was affected in the settlement of the amount due nd sued for in the Newton circuit count. i

Rogers made a petition for a rehearing in the appellate court but this was denied, showing conclusively that the court in his home county and .the appellate court of Indiana held that he had an obllgatibnto contribute to the support of his wife and child. Hib effort to avoid doing so Was hard fought and he employed as counse# Merrill' Moored Walter Myers, U. Z. Wiley and E. B. Sellers, but much eminent counsel was unable to relieve him of the legal as well as mortal obligation he owed to his

wife and child. U'sulally a man of the type that undertakes to avoid the Care of those who have a claim upon him, tries to justify his position by making false and scurrulous allegations against his wife. We are not sure that Mr. Rogers has done this, but the fact that the judgment of his own home, where such changes would doubtless have been given full consideration, made the judgment againdt him and in favor of his wife and that the appelate court of Indiana sustains the judgment, indicates fully that Rogers is entirely responsible and that he is not the type of man that should be a judge in. any court and we believe that he should not receive a vote from any decent minded person. The fact that he Was nominated on the progressive ticket should not cause the blame to be placed on that party. Those responsible for his nomination were probably ignorant of the facts here recited. But now that they are known there should be none in <the patty that nominated him that Will stand for him.

Rogers ks said to be possessed of a very bitter antagonism in the trial of all his eases and a number of local attorneys remember an occasion when he called Judge Hammond, of Lafayette; a liar during a itrial in the Jasper circuit Court, a number of years ago. That he Was not fined for contempt of court at that time was because of the leniency Of Judge Hanley, whom he ha»s so misrepresented during,, the pas tfew weeks. Judge Hanley has himself declined to pay enough attention to these charges to answer them or to.engage in a discussion of the kind waged by Rogers. This is greatly to his credit and The Republican only does so because there are generally some persons who might be influenced by the brazenly waged campaign of Carlon (Herman CJ Rogers. ( #