Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1920 — LED TO THE SLAUGHTER [ARTICLE]

LED TO THE SLAUGHTER

The following account of the nomination of Thomas Taggart is taken from the National Republican: “Thomas Taggart, former senator and ex-chairman of the Democratic national committee, will be the sacrificial offering of the Indiana Democrats as candidate for United States Senator against James E. Watson this year. Mr. Taggart is an unwilling victim, having privately con-' fessed to friends that the race is a forlorn hope, and also being out of harmony with the national administration on the chief issues of the campaign—the Wilson league of nations was finally persuaded by a conference of Indiana Democrats that it was his duty to accept the candidacy which has been offered without avail to several Indiana Democrats of prominence. In view of the fact tint Taggart was defeated by Watson in 1916, with the Democratic drift of the last Wilson campaign in progress, his acceptance of the Democratic resignation this year amounts to heroism.”