Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 254, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1916 — JAMES P. GOODRICH [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JAMES P. GOODRICH

James P. Goodrich, Republican nominee for Governor of Indiana, is fitted by training, by executive experience and by nature for the office he seeks. While he has never asked for nor held a public Mr. Goodrich has been a student of state affairs, and in a large way repeatedly has demonstrated his capacity for business management and for the skillful and able direction of large enterprises and organizations. Mr. Goodrich combines marked and proved efficiency with remarkable industry and vigor. Mr. Goodrich is making a wonderful campaign in which he has confused and confounded the opposition by giving the people a square and fair analysis of Democratic state administration." Mr. Goodrich turns the Democrats’ own official record on the Democrats and shows by the Democrats’ own figures where the abuses of extravagance and* waste have been inflicted on the taxpayer. Mr. Goodrich’s campaign is one of the most notable in the history of Indiana. It is leadership such as that of Mr. Goodrich that makes the Republican party invincible this year. He is a clean, courteous, fair and open fighter, but he hits from the shoulder and every blow counts. One of the assets of the Republican campaign is the fight Mr. Goodrich is making for reform of the state’s taxation laws. Taxation is a live issue in the state. Mr. Goodrich is a thorough student qf the taxation problem. He not only points out the weak places in the taxation laws now on the books but he tells the burdened taxpayer what ought to.be done and what he will do when he takes up hisduties as Governor, to help equalize the tax load. Mr. Goodrich is a Hoosier, born and bred. For many years he has been a lawyer at Winchester, at the same time managing a 160-acre farm.