Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1916 — WARREN T. MCCRAY PRAISED BY PAPER [ARTICLE]

WARREN T. MCCRAY PRAISED BY PAPER

Terre Haute Spectator Telia of Qualities That Make Him a Great Candidate For Governor. The Terre Haute Spectator, of Saturday, Feb. 12th, was made a special issue on account of the meeting of Mie Lincoln League there and many of the candidates were advertised and given write-ups. The paper contained the following Article about .Warren T. McCray: There is in Terre Haute today attending the Lincoln League celebration a man who preceded the “back to the land movement,” who practiced its precepts before it had become the slogan of teachers and lecturers' that .t has grown to be. Twenty-five years ago warren T. McCray, who had been a bank clerk and the successful proprietor of a grocery store in Kentland, decided to make farming his great interest. With what money he could scrape together he purchased a large tract of land near Kentland, land i which was so swampy as to be almost worthless and consequently very cheap. With this unpromising beginning, he started out to je a scientific farmer and stock raiser* and the tale of how he made of his land the famous Orchard Lake farm, the . finest stock farm in this state, and one of the finest in the country, reads like a romance. It was not done all at once; it took imagination to see the possibilities of the land, and it took time, care, judgment, and business capacity to make these possibilities realities. Little by little the land was drained, cultivated and fenced, bams were built and blooded stock was purchased. Today it is one of the show places of the state, with its ,1,600 acres of fine land and cultivated fields, urained, by 100 miles of- tiling, its seven great stock barns, built on the most approved plan, and its five silos. Here is raised the famous Hereford cattle, known all oyer the country. Tnis success has been due to Mr. McCray's personal efforts, his energy and enthusiasm, his knowledge of, land and of cattle, his unquestioned! honesty, and his commercial and executive ability. All the work of every sort has been planned by him and done under his own eye. He has been his own manager and own selling agent as well as his own farm expert. Every detail of the worl: ft at his fingers’ ends, and he knows every animal on the place by name and pedigree. In addition to this he has found tittle and energy for other activities. He owns and operates a string of grain elevators, and is president of several grain companies and of the | old and substantial State Discount and Deposit Bank of Kentland. He has always been interested in politics and has worked for the republican party in his' own locality, but has never held office. This year his friends have urged him to offer his unswerving honesty, executive ability and business acumen, which have made his personal sucecss, to the service of the state. On entering the race for governor he has pledged himself to give the people of Indiana, if he is elected, a good, clean, honest, economical business administration and to surround himself with officials who will efficiently and honestly conduct the departments under his control. Republicans all over the state are announcing their belief that the qualities which have made him a great fanner will also make him a great governor.