Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1920 — DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENT'N [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENT'N

EMPTY HONORS- ON STATE TICKET SOUGHT BY BUJ FEW CANDIDATES. The Indiana state convention which met in the capitol city, this Thursday for the purpose of placing upon the democratic altar candidates that are to make the sacrificial offer for the party during the coming campaign, seemed to have perfectly -smooth sailing. With a single exception all candidates for placed upon the state ticket were unopposed. lH democratic state committee had prepared a slate of the big four delegates to the national democrat convention to be held in San Francisco, Cal. The four selected by the bosses were Mrs. Alice Foster McCulloch of Fort Wayne, Thomas Taggart, Thomas R. Marshall andj S. M. Ralston. It is possible that this slate will he accepted by the common herd and that our faithful Democratic Woman county chairman, Mrs. John i. Gwin, will not received the honor of being selected delegate to the national convention which she. so .much coveted and for which she had been striving tremendously. We note that she did not have the aid or assistance of the editor of the Jasper County Democrat. , The chance that this honor might be bestowed Upon Mrs. Gwih as al delegate from the tenth congressional district passed away Wednesday evening when Henry Downey of Hammond and Charles M. Murdock of Lafayette were selected delegates to the San Francisco convention. ' Two or three educators of .the state, who had, announced themselves as candidate for the nomination for state superintendent of public instruction, graciously yielded to Miss Adelaide Steel Baylor of Wabash. Vice President Marshall was scheduled to make the convention address. The democratic politicians of the state and nation prevented the

rank and the democrats of Indiana from making known their preference for nomination for candidate for president of ‘Hie TJnited States,* as provided by the primary law- of this state. It is clearly the right of the „ people and the duty of the party leaders to see that the common people have a voice in the selection of candidates. Candidates who prefer to submit their nomination to bosses and ring politicians rather than to the people are not worthy even of the empty honor of being candidates y for the presidency on the democratic ticket in the year of our Lord, 1920.