Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 238, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — MICHAEL DUFFY A REPUBLICAN [ARTICLE]

MICHAEL DUFFY A REPUBLICAN

FORMER PROMINENT BENTON COUNTY DEMOCRAT CANNOT SUPPORT COX. ... . . --- ---- * * -- One of the features of the Republican meeting at Brook Friday was the address of Michael Duffy, a prominent Benton county fanner. Mr. Duffy has a large real estate holding in Newton county, also. He was as great an admirer of William Jennings Bryan as the writer was of Theodore Roosevelt. He loved former Senator John W. Kerns dearly. He had been a real fighting Democrat. He disliked to desert the old party, so he went to South Bend and heard Governor Cox make his address. He spent his good money and valuable time trying to ease his conscience, but after hearing Cox he decided that to be a good American he could not support the Democratic nominee and that he would join the thousands of other Democrats that would vote for that 100 per cent American, Senator Harding. - Those who heard Mr. Duffy s address say that he made a very effective talk, that he was very sinsere and that he had given the flatter most thorough and painstaking investigation and consideration. < The meeting at Brook had an attendance of from 1,500 to 2,000 and the enthusiasm of the occasion convinced everyone present that the polls being taken are true and that there is a landslide to the Republican party this year. The speakers were, Congressman Wood, the next Governor, Warren T. McCray, Ex-Congressman J. Adam Bede, of Minnesota, and Dorothy Cunningham. There was music by the Ladies’ quartette of Huntington, the Brook and Kentland bands. Michael Duffy, Benton county’s prominent farmer, and former ardent Democrat, was the real hero of the occasion.