Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 126, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1920 — BOOM STARTED FOR MARSHALL IN HOME TOWN [ARTICLE]

BOOM STARTED FOR MARSHALL IN HOME TOWN

Fort Wayne, Ind., May 24.--An active boom for the nomination of Vice President Thomas R. Marshall for the presidency has been started in Columbia City, Marshall’s home before he was elected governor of Indiana. In a statement given out today Eph K. Strong, a Columbia City lawyer and intimate of Mr. Marshall, said that all efforts possible would be made by twelfth district Indiana democrats to nominate Marshall at the San Francisco convention. “Marshall has always believed and practiced that the office should seek the man and not the man the office,” says Mr. Strong’s statement. “He would be the president, and not the men or factions who might have affected his nomination or election. He would eliminate politics from finance and business from pok itics. His loyalty, patriotism and Americanism are all one hundred percent His /nomination and election would be a national blaming.”