Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1918 — CHAIRMEN ELECTED [ARTICLE]

CHAIRMEN ELECTED

REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS OF TENTH DISTRICT MEET HERE AND MAKE CHOICES. —————————— The tenth district Republican and Democratic conventions for the purpose of electing the district chairmen were held in Rensselaer this afternoon. There l was no contests in either convention and the crowd was not large, but all the counties in the district except one were represented. Lawrence Lyons, of Brook, was reelected chairman; George H. McLain, of Rensselaer, was elected vice chairman; Homer Henniger, of Lafayette, secretary and E. Miles Norton, of Gary, treasurer. The convention was held in the director s room of the First National Bank. The Democrats met at the -court house, after agreeing on who should be the nominee and re-elected J. Lehman, of Crowd Point, chairman; James McDonald, of Williamsport, vice Chairman, and Tom O’Connor, of Monticello, treasurer. The selection of a secretary was left with the chairman. Among the prominent democrats attending the convention were James H. McGill and John Stoner, of Valparaiso; Thomas McDonald and C. F. McGabe, candidate for appellate judge, of Williamsport; W. J. Higel, of Monon; George R. Durgan, mayor of Lafayette, and Mike Duffy, of Fowler. \ ~