Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 182, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1920 — TO HEAD G. O. P. YOUNG VOTERS [ARTICLE]
TO HEAD G. O. P. YOUNG VOTERS
MONTICELLO MAN IS CHIEF RECRUITING OFFICER FOR RE- * PUBLICAN STATE CAMPAIGN. (Monticello Evening Journal.) Schuyler C. Mower, of 'Monti_cello, has been named state chairman of the organization to enroll first voters under the banner of the Republican party. His recruiting office will be at Republican state headquarters in the Hotel Severin at Indianapolis. There will be ninety-two county recruiting officers as soon as they are appointed by the different county chairman. Mr. Mower, who is well known in this community, makes his home with his mother, Mrs. Isaac Mowrer, in the vicinity of Reynolds. He w a young man in his early twenties, with an abundance of pep and a great deal of natural ability for public life. , „ a „ As a lad around Monticello, Mr. Mower was a carrier boy for the Evening Journal for over four years. He attended the Monticello schools and graduated from the Burnettsville High School. At the start of the. war he was attending Indiana University at Bloomington, and he was the first students to enlist in the army. He was assigned to a trench mortar battery of the famous first division—the first American ing organization to get across and to the battle front. Mowrer was the first White county boy to be wounded in action m Franpe, being gassed in a German attack which his organization helped to stem. After son he was chosen as one of the Persning Fifty’’—a half-hundred selected wldiew—to 1» returned M Amg; ica and tour the country m behalf of one of the Liberty Loan drives. With the end of the war Mowrer returned to Indiana University, where his studies had been interrupted, to resume his wort in the law school. He is still a student at the University, but his summer vacation will be given over to services for the Republican part* If Chairman Wasmuth’s plans materialize there will be a young voters’ club in each county and regular meetings will be held for .toe purpose of giving the first voters full information about the pnncinlM of the Republican party. It will be Mr. MowreFs dutv to assist in the organization of toese local clubs and to co-ordinate the wort. He has already commenced work at the State Headquarters.
