Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1920 — G. O. P. LEADERS WILL VISIT ADE [ARTICLE]

G. O. P. LEADERS WILL VISIT ADE

ALL-DAY CONFERENCE SET FOR TUESDAY—HARDING PILGRIMAGE SATURDAY.

Indianapolis, Aug. 27.—George Ade, expressing keen/ interest in Republican success this year, has invited Republican workers to gather at his Hazelden farm, near Brook', Tuesday for an all day conference and organization meeting. Lawrence Lyons, tenth district chairman," is co-operating with Mr. Ade in making the arangements. Mr. Ade's special guests will include the men and women members of the state committee, State Chairman Wasmuth, Warren T. McCray, other state candidates, Republican editors and the men and women heads of county organizations. It is expected that the party will number 100 or more. Visitors e from Indianapolis and hereabouts will go by train by automobiles that will convey to the Ade farm. Mr. Ade promises a fried chicken dinner, thereby assuring a 100 per cent attendance from those on his invitation list. It is said that the meeting will be devoted largely to organization plans and to perfecting the drive for a big registration of Republican men and women voters, Sept. 4. Haya May Attend. National Chairman Will H. Hays is expected to attend and Senator New, chief of the national speaker’s bureau, intends to run down from Chicago. On the following day Mr. McCray, Senator Watson and State Chairman Wasmuth are to go to Chicago for a conference that Mr. Hays has called for all candidates for Governor and senator from the central states. Senator New is in Indianapolis to remain until tomorrow morning, when he will go with the Indiana delegation to visit Senator Harding at Marion, O. Reports from the Columbia Club, the Marion Club, the Harding Club and from several cities of the Sixth and Eighth districts indicate that a representative Crowd of Republicans, including many women, will make the pilgrim*age. ’ The special train is to depart from Indianapolis at 7:45 a. m. and will make stops at Anderson at 8 :35; Muncie, 9 o’clock; Winchester, 9:30. o’clock, and un»on City at 9:45 o’clock. The Indianapolis Military band will supply the music. Arriving at Marion at 1 o’clock, the Hoosiers will form a parade, with Frank Shellhouse of Indianapolis as chief marshal, and march to the Harding home on Mt. Vernon avenue. The return trip will be made in the evening. Senator Harding has prepared a special address for the occasion. It is expected that he will enlarge on his views of the League of-Nations issue. v „ .. , “A visit to Senator Harding’s friendly front porch serves as a good tonic and an inspiration and I hope that a large number of Republicans will lay off from their business for a day and make the trip. This visit to Marion will.be one of the big and interesting events of the campaign,” said State Chairman Wasmuth last night. Beveridge Sees Victory. Senator New also expressed special interest in the pilgrimage and urged'- that Republicans, especially those of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth districts, make the tnp. Albert J. Beveridge, who was in Indianapolis for a few hours Wednesday evening, expressed confidence that the Republicans will sweep the country. He will participate in the Indiana speaking campaign and later he is to make a tnp across the country to many cities of the West and Northwest winch have sent pressing invitations. Senator New,- chairman of the national speakers’ bureau, conferred with Mr. Beveridge, discussing the itenerary that is to be arranged for him for the month of October. “Mr. Beveridge will speak in Indiana and in many cities of the country. The demands for Mm are especially numerous from Western states,” said Senator New. Beveridge, like myself, is full of confidence in the November result He tpld me that he believed the election of a Republican President to be a cinch.” . ■ It is Senator New’s hope to have Mr. Beveridge as the speaker at Chicago, Sept. 17, which, under the New plan, is to be observed tn every county Of state as constitution day, this date being the anniversary of .the final signing of the Federal constitution framed by thecolonies. Fred Robinson, chairman of the Republican state speakers’ bureau, will arrange at once for constitution day meetings in each of the ninety-two counties ,of the state. Roosevelt Coming Here. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., is to participate in the Indiana campaign some time in October. He was to come on an earlier date, but special ! sessions of New York General Assembly of which he is a member win delay his start. He is to make Republican speeches ui «nne partsof the country within a few days, but it has been necessary to postpone his Indiana dates for the present. Mrs. James & Riggs of Sullivan has been named chairman of the Democratic women of the Second

district, succeeding Mrs. S. M. Emi--80 Miss chnkeSeard of Indianapolis has taken a place in the woman’s bureau at Republican state Lyons, who was in Indianapolis yesterday, said that the TenthT Twelfth and Thirteenth district Republicans have made big progress with their plans for a visit to Senator Harding’s home Sept. 11. “We expect a train load # of Republicans to make the tnp,” he 88 Men and women, members of the Democratic state committee are to hold another organization conference today. -