Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1915 — SAYS M’CRAY CAN UNITE THE PARTY [ARTICLE]

SAYS M’CRAY CAN UNITE THE PARTY

Newspaper Says That With Him We • Can Sew Up the Old Party Bifurcated Three Years Aguf.

Warren T. McCray, “the man from Kentland,” republican candidate for governor, can reunite the grand old party as no other candidate mentioned for the bead of the state ticket next year can and is stronger by 25,000 votes than any other candidate according to some of the leading republican newspapers of Indiana.

In a straw vote recently held in five counties well proportioned over the state, Mr. McCray came within ten votes of equaling the combined vote of his four competitors in the race. Not so bad for a novice in politics, such of the former-business man candidate is.

ißut not claiming Mr. McCray’s nomination on the face of these returns, by any manner of means, the main argumet is that if the republican party next year is to answer the call for it from the country, and that call is audible everywhere nearly, Warren McCray is the man in Indiana, more than any other named, who can expand the party’s voting strength by bringing into it thousands of men who have been indifferent to it in recent years, or actively arrayed against it. A party can not realize its ambitions in legislation unless it is elected to control of the legislative medium. 'Success depends on votes. With the man from Kentland we can get action. Of course, I know there are more cogent arguments than that why Mr. McCray should be supported by all sections of the republican party and by all iof the socal'led “independent” voters. I’ll take them up later. Let us sew up into one piece again this old and tried party of ours that unhappily was bifurcated three years aero. So far as Indiana is concerned, McCray, in my opinion, is the tailor who can do it better than any other man seeking the votes of the party in the coming primary for governor.