Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1914 — Senator McCormick Opposed To Capital Punishment. [ARTICLE]

Senator McCormick Opposed To Capital Punishment.

Chester A. McCormick, editor of the North Judson News, and state senator Troth this district, is to introduce a bill at the 1915 session of .the legislature to abolish capital punishment, which movement he says is'gathering force in all parts of the state and that'letters and telegrams pledging support had been received from many prominent men and women. Senator McCormick has addressed a letter to Mrs. A. D. Moffet, of Elwood, president of the Women’s Press Club of Indiana, whose co-operation, together with that of other organizations in the state, he asks. “Hundreds of letters and telegrams convince me that the good people of Indiana are thoroughly aroused to the situation,” he says. ‘There is absolutely not a single' argument ih favor of legalized murder. The ’ women’s organizations have aided materially in abolishing this barbaric custom in a number of our sister states and they can do the same thing in Indiana.”