Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1917 — "That Senator’s Some Guy.” [ARTICLE]

"That Senator’s Some Guy.”

Indianapolis News. “That senator’s some gpy. I got to talk to him,” said Lew Shank after he had been introduced to Dwight M. Kinder, of Gary, a state senator, at the fourteenth annual bartender's ball last night at Germania hall. The bartenders’ ball was on Shank’s speaking list. He talked tq small gatherings in Prospect and Shelby streets, spoke at a picture show and then headed for the ball, after trying in vain to find a meting that was supposed to be at 2314 Southeastern Ave. Socks Barnett, a familiar figure around poolrooms, had Senator Kinder in tow, and as Socks and the sen-' ator breezed into the room where Shank was, Socks spied Shank and he took “great pleasure” in introducing the senator. Even Shank appeared surprised to be meeting a “real” senator at the bartenders’ ball. The only thing apparently that he could think of to say was to ask Kinder about the dry bill, how he was going to vote and whether he thought the bill would be passed. All these “hows” were asked within two feet of the Germania hall bast “He’d better not vote dry,” asserted a woman who was clinging to the

senator’s arm. The senator said the dry bill was “just like this,” then he made a lacking motion with his hands. Shank and Kinder agreed that a better way to settle the question would .be to let the people vote on it. The senator, Socks and two women with them moved on to a table to get refreshments “By golly, I got to talk some more to that senator,” said 'Lew, and he went to Kinder’s table. After his talk with Kinder, Lew shook hands with a few of “the boys” and some of “the girls,” and then announced he was going home. The senator was not in such a hurry.

Dwight, M. Kinder is the person supposed to represent Jasper and Newton counties as well as Lake and Porter in the senate of Indiana. Evidently the fire the drys built around Senator Kinder got so hot that he had to go some place to soak up. The senator said to several people that the drys could not build a fire under him hot enough to make him dry.