Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1918 — URGE VIGOROUS POLICY IN WAR [ARTICLE]

URGE VIGOROUS POLICY IN WAR

REPUBLICANS OF TENTH TO ESCHEW PUSSY-FOOTER IN CAMPAIGN MEET. , o • Better the Republican ticket go down in defeat than that any Repub-' lican pussyfoot about the war is to be the key-note of the coining campaign in the tenth district as expressed at a conference of the district Republican leaders and members of the state organization, at Hazelden Farm, George Ade's estate, July 25. —Otto KlausS, state auditor uttered the declaration which bids fair to be the slogan in the speech before the conference. Vigorous prosecution of the war was urged by Mr. Klauss and others speaking before the gathering. County Chairmen from the eight counties in the district and Lawrence Lyons, district chairman, some of Republicans in the Tenth and a number of Republican state candidates attended the confab, which is a forerunner of district meetings within the next few weeks. Mr. Ade was host to the G. 0. P. leaders. District Chairman Lyons arranged the gathering. Ed. M. Wasmuth, state chairman, urged the county chairman to take active steps to register all voters. He explained the absent voter and soldier voter provisions of the law and pointed out that it rested with each member of the organization to poll a large vote. Miss Carolyn Shoemaker, dean of women at Purdue University, spoke in behalf of the franchise movement among Indiana's women. She read a pamphlet which is to be issued soon by the women of the state, containing excerpts from the Democrat and Republican state platforms regarding woman’s suffrage. Miss Shoemaker asked the Republican leaders of the district to assist the women in obtaining 100,000 members and the signatures of 700,000 voters and women in the state on a petition to be presented to Congress and the next session of the Legislature.

The county chairmen reported that a large,per cent of the Republican voters in their counties had been registered. Many expressed the belief that the farmers had registered more proportionately, than the city voters. District chairman Lyons presided and heard reports from the following county chairmen: A. M. Wortsell, Porter county, Valparaiso; A. K. Sills White county, Monticello; Elmer McKnight, Benton county, Fowler; Fred Longwell, Newton county, Brook; E. Miles Norton, Lake county, Gary; George McLain, Jasper county, Rensselaer; Homer Henneggar, Tippecanoe county, Lafayette; John Stephenson, Warren county, Williamsport. Many prominent Tenth District G. 0. P. leaders attended the conference discussing plans for the fall election John Bower of Fowler, who was the progressive candidate for treasurer of state in 1914, was on the ground early. z John Bennett Lyons, 80 years old father of the district chairman, a Republican of many years standing in the district, out bowled many of the yoqnger men at the old bowling green game. Warren T. McCray, of Kentland, candidate for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 1916, visited the confab. Cloyd Loughery, Monticello grain man, greeted Mr. McCray as “Governor” but no special boom was launched at the gathering. State candidates present included Ele Stansbury, nominee for attorney general; William A. (Deacon) Roach secretary of state; L. N. Hines, candidate for superintendent of public instruction; Judge B. M. Willoughby Supreme Court nominee; Willis C. McM*ahan, Crown Point, Appellate judge candidate; U. Z. McMurtrie, treasurer of state nominee, and Otto L. Klauss auditor of state.