Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1918 — TRUCE DECLARED PUT LOAN OVER [ARTICLE]

TRUCE DECLARED PUT LOAN OVER

REPUBLICAN AND DEMOCRATIC FORCES TO JOIN IN LIBERTY BOND CAMPAIGN. AU together in Indiana for the next Liberty loan, was the policy approved today when Will H. Hays, chairman of the Republican state committee, and Charles A. Greathouse, chairman of the Democratic state committee, held a conference with Governor James P. Goodrich at the statehouse and discussed the plan of bringing the two great political organizations together in a joint and enthusiastic effort to go “over the top" in record time. The state committees of the two parties will be called to meet in the hall of representatives at the statehouse March 5, at 2:00 p. m. County chairmen and other political workers will be invited to attend. A truce is to be declared, which will suspend rival party activities while the Liberty loan drive is on, and the Democratic and Republican organizations of the state are to unite whole-heartedly against the common enemy, Teuton autocracy. A joint call for the meeting March 5, signed by Governor Goodrich and the two state chairman, was prepared for mailing later in the day. In addition to the joint call, each state chairman will send out a separate call, summoning his state committee to the joint conference. The conference will consider ways and means of raising Indiana's apportionment of the next loan to win the war.

The two leading party organizations extend into every precinct of every county of Indiana, and together, it is confidently asserted, they will constitute a most effective instrumentality for advancing a great common cause. As far as is known, this will be the first time the party committees of a state ever joined in a measure of this character, and those who have studied the possibilities predict that the plan promptly will be taken up in other states and will insure success of the next Liberty loan. Governor Goodrich, Chairman Hays and Chairman Greathouse were all enthusiastic over it and will do all within their power to “put it over.” The conference at which the plan wAs considered was not long. Its merits were so convincing that the conferees soon reached an agreement to issue a call for the joint meeting of the state committees of the two parties. v In addition to the Governor and the two state chairmen, the conference was attended by George Dunscombe, of the First National Bank, of Chicago, director of bond sales for Indiana; Will H. Wade, vicedirecor for Indiana, ahd Walter S. Greenough, vice-director of Liberty loan publicity for the state.