Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1915 — Aggressive Young Republican Announces For State Treasurer [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Aggressive Young Republican Announces For State Treasurer

Uz McMurtrie, at Marion, today formally entered the race for the Republican nomination for treasurer of state. McMurtrie now is serving as treasurer of Grant County, he being twice electnd, in 1912 and 1914, in •pit* of party division. In 1912 McMurtrie won by 869, only one other bring elected in his county. In 1914 McMurtrie’s plurality, with n rimiiwsivn county ticket in the field, was MTO, and again he led bis winning on his official record and by fearless, aggressive campaigning methods. The showing made in 1912 marked McMurtrie for state-wide notice and admiring comment, as the successful Republican candidate that year in Indiana was a political phenomenon. McMurtrie’s still mow remarkable vote in 1914, obtained in an aggressive Republican fight and on his official record, put the Grant County man before his party as a logical aspirant for state honors. Us McMurtrie is one of the younger Republican workers. He is put forward as a representative young Republican, as a worthy member of an important and useful element which

earnestly seeks recognition. He hsa been active many years, serving hie party as secretary of the Grant County Central Committee and in various other capacities previous to holding public office. McMurtrie and his friends now are making a thorough canvass of the ninety-two conation. The McMurtrie men assert the Republican state ticket would ha strengthened by the nomination of an active and effective campaigner ssdh as McMurtrie has proved to be. Uz McMurtrie is a graduate of Indiana University in the class of 1908. In college McMurtrie began a special study of the subject of taxation, and now is active in the statewide movement for a better famrths system in Indiana, having won recognition as a thorough student of the question. McMurtrie formerly was a n(wph per nian. He was born at Attica, Fountain County, Indiana, and is married. He is a son of a veteran of thn Civil War. . Grant County, McMurtries hosMt though it is a big Republican count*, never has had a candidate on- thn Republican state ticket.

UZ McMURTRIE.