Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1918 — ILLNESS CAUSES M'ILROY TO WITHDRAW FROM RACE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

ILLNESS CAUSES M'ILROY TO WITHDRAW FROM RACE

i f... i■. * Hammond Times. Frank B. Mcllroy, president of the Mcllroy Belting & Hose Co., of Hammond, has been compelled, partly by reason of poor health, to withdraw from the race for Joint senator at the republican primaries.

Word comes from Biloxi, Miss., where Mr. Mcllroy has been sojourning since a serious bronchial attack last winter made it necessary for him to go south and seek a less rigorous climate that his physician has cautioned him against the uncertain weather he would experience on a campaigning trip now. Mr. Mcllroy’s other reason for declining to stand for the joint senatorship is that be prefers to represent Lake county exclusively in the senate instead of the four joint counties. All hds interests are in Lake and two years hence he will seek the nomination for Lake county senator alone. Friends of the Hammond manufacturer regret his determination to withdraw from the race for they figure that he would be just as valuable an asset to the senate as he is to Hammond where he has .been located for ten yean. He has a magnificent plant in Hammond and only recently purchased a block of land between Sohl and the L H. Belt next to his plant and is now organizing a corporation to erect buildings and manufacture a line of automobile accessories. This new industry will pmploy a large number of bands.