Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 March 1916 — LAWRENCE LYONS CHOSEN CHAIRMAN [ARTICLE]

LAWRENCE LYONS CHOSEN CHAIRMAN

Happy Ending to What Appeared to Be a Hot Contest —Resolutions Adopted. Lawrence Lyons, of Brook, who was the manager of Warren T. McCray’s recent campaign for governor, was chosen this Tuesday afternoon as the republican chairman of the tenth congressional district. His election, while not altogether a surprise, terminated in a happy solution to the spirited contest started in Lake county. Dr. Frank W. Smith, of Gary, Dr. T. Edwin Bell and Attorney C. B. Tinkham, of Hammond, were candidates and all the vigor of Lake county politics was injected into their campaign. The applicants and many of their supporters and most of the county chairmen gathered in Rensselaer Monday evening and the Makeever hotel was a lively place as the preliminary skirmishes were inIt did not take any great amount of observation to discover that there was a feeling among the eight county chairmen who were to elect the district chairman that the man chosen should be none of the three and that he should come from outside of Lake county. Lawrence Lyons, of Brook, who had been mentioned for several days, and whose ability as a party organizer is well known, was the natural and wise selection and it did not take long for the county chairmen after they entered into executive session to make him their choice. Three or four secret ballots were taken, however, before the selection of Mr. Lyons was made. The action of the chairmen was well received and the Lake county candidates were all well satisfied with the result. The session was held openly after the chairjnan was chosen and Ray R. Cummings, of Kentland, was chosen district secretary, and George H. McLain, of Rensselaer, was chosen district treasurer. Resolutions were then offered by Mr. Cummings, who was the secretary of the meeting, endorsing the management of the last campaign in Indiana by Chairman Will H. Hays and Secretary L. W. Henley. The* resolutions also endorsed the tenth district candidates for state office, attend the meeting of the district pied only a few moments and the visitors going south were able to leave on the 1:57 train. Mr. Lyons went to Indianapolis on that train and will attend the meqtini of the district chairmen to formulate the state organization, which will beyond doubt Again make Will H. Hays, of Sullivan, chairman, and L. W. Henley secretary. . The following are the county chairmen of the tenth district :

Jacob Sheffer, Warren county. Rooert Pross, Tippecanoe county. A. K. Sills, Jr., White county. E. M. Norman, Lake county. Ray R. Cummings, Newton county. Thomas Fleming, Benton county. Geo. H. McLain, Jasper county,/ A. N. Worstel, Porter eounty.The following resolution was unanimously passed: Whereas, the republican county chairmen of the tenth congressional district of Indiana, assembled for the purpose of erecting a district organization, are desirous of securing the best results toward party success in both district and state at the coming election, and - Whereas, it is the voice of the meeting that the past-campaign in Indiana was conducted in a manner entirely satisfactory to the tenth district? “ —, , Therefore, be it resolved, that the county chairm en~~~here assembled most unqualifidely endorse the methods of the state committee and especially our state chairman, Will H. Hays, and the state secretary, L. W. Henley, for their untiring energy, and the high plane on which they managed the affairs of the state committee, and Be it further resolved,- that we heartily endorse and give our sup port to the tenth district candidates r for state office, namely, Julius Fned-manforlieutenant-governor,Truman F. Palmer for judge of the appellate court, Ele Stansbury for attorney general, Frank Heighway for supe# intendent of public instruction, and Hoir-WiHR- Wood for congress.