Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 April 1916 — FRANK WELSH AND WM. DARROCH DELEGATES [ARTICLE]

FRANK WELSH AND WM. DARROCH DELEGATES

Jasper and Newton County Men Chosen to Attend Democratic National Convention. Frank Welsh, chairman of the democratic central committee of Jasper county and William Darroch, the well-known Kentland attorney, were chosen the delegates from the tenth district to the democratic national convention to be held in St. Louis in June. The Benton Review tells a good joke on the Benton county delegates, who had hoped to have either Charles Lawson or Mike Duffy chosen as national delegate. The Benton county delegates, seven in number, met in the corridor of the state house to decide which of 'the two candidates would receive the support of the solid Benton delegation. Duffy received 4 votes and Lawson 3 and just as the Benton delegates were going to the room assigned to the tenth district to cast their 7 votes for Duffy, the hundred or more delegates from the other counties of the district came out of the convention hall and announced that the meeting was over and that Welsh and Darroch had been chosen. Benton county delegates learned that you can’t go to sleep at the switch when attending a state convention. The Review closes its article by

saying: "Having found out of how little importance a county like Benton with only seven votes amounts to in a state convention where there are several thousand delegates present, it is to be hoped that our local organization will forget the differences and live in harmony the rest of the campaign and not make a joke of themselves, by a factional fight, with the idea of accomplishing something in the larger affairs of the state.”