Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1916 — Who Is Robert G. Tucker? [ARTICLE]

Who Is Robert G. Tucker?

Robert G. Tucker, professional lobbies! and Tom Taggart press agent, is the man who is writing political articles from Indiana for The Cincinnati Enquirer and certain democratic papers of the state, including The Terre Haute Tribune, owned by Crawford Fairbanks, the friend and ally of Taggart. Democratic papers of the state, which have been following the smooth Taggart schemes have copied articles written by Tucker and some of thq self-professed decent democratic papers have thus fallen completely into the Taggart nets. Last Saturday evening the writer met a democrat who is prominent in state politics and closely allied with the machine. It was not Charley Murphy. The first question the man asked was: “Who are you for for governor!” The writer replied: “For Warren T. McCray.” There followed an explosion about like this: “What are you supporting that ..four-flusher for? He’s nothing but a damned farmer. Why do’nt you get on the band wagon and support Goodrich? McCray can’t get any place. He’s nothing but a fourflusher, I tell you.” That is just what Tom Taggart has put into the mouths of his henchmen and occasionally they find a few republicans easy enough to fall for it. And Bob Tucker is writing against McCray because Tom Taggart is afraid to have him named for governor. Two weeks ago Crawford Fairbanks’ Terre Haute Tribune labeled Mr. McCray a “bull raiser.” In Terre Haute, however, the methods of The Tribune have been to belittle any decent man who sought .political honors, either democrat or republican, and Terre Haute is for Warren T. McCray. It is the Tucker-Taggart-Fairbanks aim to make it appear that Goodrich is in the lead and that McCray is a poor third. Republicans do not need to be very far-sighted to know that Warren T. McCray for the very reason that the wise-heads in the democratic machine are afraid to have him nominated.