Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1919 — DEMOCRATS DECLINED TO GO. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS DECLINED TO GO.

It might cool, at least to a limited degree, the heated, brow of the editor of the Democrat to know that a very prominent Democrat was the first person named on the committee to attend the reception at Indianapolis last Friday but that he failed to go on account of the fact that he was not well enough. Other persons were asked to. serve on the committee who were not Republicans and who had boys in the service. Mayor Spitler was up against the proposition of selecting men who would go down in their jeans and pay their expenses. Charles W. Rhoades was a member of this committee and he has three boys in the service. As to Messrs. Montgomery and Parker, while they deserve to be thoroughly censured for not raising a family and each having thirteen sons in the service, otherwise they are all right. Old Man Parker has been a father to half of the soldier boys who have left this city, and no other man in this county has done more real service in the war than Jack Montgomery. ' “ Ask the boys when they come home what they think of Parker and Montgomery, and you will find out that they. made splendid members of this committee.