Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1916 — GOODRICH TO OPEN CAMPAIGN SOON [ARTICLE]

GOODRICH TO OPEN CAMPAIGN SOON

Republican Candidate for Governor Will Outline Party’s Position on State Affairs. The republican campaign in Indiana will be formally opened at Greencastle next Thursday, when James P. Goodrich, of Winchester, will deliver an address on state issues. Considerable interest is being manifested in Goodrich’s opening speech of the republican’s position on questions affecting state affairs he has already made it plain in addresses in various part of the state that he will make a vigorous attack on the democratic administration.

ilt is believed, judging from Mr. Goodrich’s statements to voters at organization meetings since he has been nominated for governor, that the republican candidates will charge the democratic administration with extravagance and waste in the expenditure of public funds, and it is also expected that Goodrich will present a constructive program for reform in taxation. No effort is being made to make the Greencastle meeting a rally of state or district proportions. The republican national campaign in Indiana will be formally opened with a rally in Tomlinson hall on the evening of August 31—the day on which Charles W. Fairbanks will be notified of his nomination by the national convention as the candidate for vice-presi-dent of the (United States.