Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1920 — WOULD RUN STATE ON BUSINESS PLAN [ARTICLE]

WOULD RUN STATE ON BUSINESS PLAN

McCray Advocates Budget System for Handling Financial Affairs of Commonwealth. ARRANGE STATE-WIDE TOUR Indianapolis, Ind. — Many invitations to speak to home-comings, county fairs and other gatherings are pouring in on Warren T. McCray, the Republican candidate for governor. Mr. McCray has announced that he will spend the greater part of August filling such engagements in every part of the State. After September 1 he will begin his active campaign tour and his speaking dates will be under the direction of Fred B. Robinson, director of the speakers’ bureau of the Republican state committee. Mr. McCray has announced that he has accepted the invitation of the Tippecanoe County Fair Association to speak at the fair on “Governor’s Day,” to be celebrated this year, September 16. He will also speak at the Montgomery county fair at Crawfordsville, September 2. The gubernatorial candidate has opened his headquarters in the Severin hotel. His office is on the third floor of the hotel and adjoins the offices of the Republican state committee. Mr. McCray has been in conference recently with the party leaders and .has completed his arrangements for a vigorous speaking campaign. He intends to get into every community of the State to meet the voters end tell them first hand of the Ideas he is advocating for the proper management of a state. He takes the position that the governor of a State should manage the people's affairs on a strict business basis and on this principle Mr. McCray is urging the adoption of a budget system. “If elected I intend to make an exhaustive investigation of what other states have done under the budget system and combine the . best and most practical points into the development of a strong and efficient budget system for Indiana,” Mr. Mo-