Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — ADDRESS WAS WELL RECEIVED [ARTICLE]

ADDRESS WAS WELL RECEIVED

CANDIDATE GIVES ... CLEAR , STATEMENT OF HIS VIEWS. J. W. Fesler, pf Indianapolis, candidate for the Republican nomination so? governor of Indiana, addressed a good sized audience in the cdurt room in this city Friday afternoon. His address was a clear, definite, concise statement of his stand on many of the important state questions now before the people. He made a strong argument in favor of the budget system in state finance. He said that fundamentally the new tax law was right, but that it needed amendments giving the local authorities ■'more power. . ' He favored the appointment of women upon many of the boards of control in the state* ‘ For eighteen years he has been a trustee of Indiana university and is now the president of that board. He made a strong argument i» favor of better wages for teachers and insisted that the teaching profession must have the best talent obtainable. He deplored the fact that less than half of the number of students are now enrolled in our normal schools. ? The address was dignified in every particular and made a most exi cellent impression upon all who heard it. I ' '