Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1915 — Reasons Why Republicans Should Nominate Warren McCray. [ARTICLE]

Reasons Why Republicans Should Nominate Warren McCray.

Five good men are seeking the republican nomination for governor. It seems early to discuss them in view of the fact that the election is not until the fall of 1916, but the primary law sets the first Monday in March as the time for holding the nominating primary and we must deicde during the intervening time upon the qualities of the men who are to be on our party ticket. The editor of The Republican has endeavored to learn the qualifications of the candidates and has decided that in Warren T. McCray, of Kentland, are the qualities desirable in both candidate and official. James E. Goodrich, of Winchester, is a man of ability and of clean moral life; he has ability and has been assigned to important and business tasks and has performed them with success and dignity; Quincy Myers, now of Indianapolis, has been a lawyer and jurist for many years and has the poise that would distinguish the office he seeks; C. A. Carlisle, of South Bend, is a man of excellent worth as a citizen and has the power to fill the governor’s office with distinction; R. O. Johnson, of Gary, the man whose ardent campaigning put the corrupt Tom Knotts administration out of business, and who has accomplished wonders in Gary, has the ardent support of the people of Lake county and they say he will make a great campaign and believe he will be nominated. Thus we have four of the five actice candidates. Any one of them will make Indiana a fine governor. It is for the voters to choose the one they consider the best and after a month’s consideration The Republican has decided that Warren T. McCray, of Kentland, is the man we should name to head our ticket. He has never been a politician, not that there is any disgrace in being one, for they are very necessary, but there is a prejudice against the politician who is such because he is a seeker for office. Warren McCray has been content to be a republican and to support the candidates of that party and to employ his time in his business, that of stockraiser, farmer and banker. He has been industrious, resourceful, progressive; has played an important part in his county and town and has built up a success that has given him world-wide fame. With this accomplishment he has become a student of conditions, an economist, a thinker, a man with ideas and his ideas and his method of applying them have made him a great success. He would enter the campaign with a record of unspotted citizenship, a man without a blemish, a business man who without ostentation has become great in his home town and great in the cattle business throughout the world. His speech delivered at Kentland on the occasion of the meeting held to apprise hijn of the desire of his fellow townsmen that he enter the race, proved him a scholarly man with all that is essential for the demands of the office of governor. We believe that Warren T. McCray will apply to the governor’s office the same business principles that he has applied to his stock and banking business and that untrammeled by obligations to politicians and uncontrolled by any interests he will i commend himself to voters as no other candidate can and will fulfill the hopes of all who are interested in the welfare of Indiana by an administration without tied hands. It is more than six months before the primary but The Republican desires that its readers learn of the qualities that Mr. McCray possesses and aid in the campaign for his nomination. They can help materially if they will write to friends all over Indiana and urge support of him. He will be at two disadvantages, first, lack of acquaintance, and second, lack of familiarity with political organization. But he will appeal to those who do not think second-handed and we hope to see Jasper county a unit for his nomination.