Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 204, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1918 — FORMER EDITOR FOR CONGRESS. [ARTICLE]

FORMER EDITOR FOR CONGRESS.

Winamac friends of Carl W. Riddick, former Winamac editor, received word this week that he had been nominated by/3,600 plurality in the Montana primaries on August 27, to run on the Republican ticket for congress from the Eastern Montana district. Montana will havetwo congressmen elected this fall. TbSre were three candidates for the nomination in the former Winamac man’s district. If elected, as several Montana newspapers are predicting, Mr. Riddick will take the seat of the woman “congressman,” Miss Rankin.' She "dropped out of the congressional race and tried to land the nomination for the senate. She was defeated in the primary for that place.