Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1920 — CANDIDATE SIMPKINS VISITS US [ARTICLE]

CANDIDATE SIMPKINS VISITS US

Hon. W. D. Simpkins, of Boswell, Benton county, who is a candidate for representative in the lower house of the Indiana general assembly, wai in Rensselaer Monday. For this important office to succeed our fellow townsman, W. L. Wood, there are four candidates, three from Newton county and one from Benton. Mr. Simpkins has the advantage of having no opposition in his own county and this fact may make him the nominee. If it does, the Republicans will have a most excellent candidate. He is a native Hoosier, was born in Warren county and has spent the most of his life in Benton county. For thirty-nine years he has been in business in Boswell. He is a druggist, a banker, a farmer and a live-stock man. His successful business career and his standing as a citizen in the community in which he has spent his whole life are evidences of the fact that he would make a capable, efficient and honest legislator. He is a staunch Republican. Has served his county as chairman of the Republican" central committee. He is proud of the fact that he was a delegate to the judicial convention which placed the name of the Hon. Edwin P. Hammond on the Republican ticket as their candidate for judge of the circuit then composed of Benton, Newton and Jasper counties. While Mr. Simpkins has always been active in politics, he has not been an office seeker. He did serve the people of his township as trustee, a fact that will assist him very materially should he be nominated and elected as a law maker.