Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1920 — VOTED FIRST G. O. P. TICKET [ARTICLE]

VOTED FIRST G. O. P. TICKET

H*nry County Patriarch Wants to “Clean Whit* HouaW’ and Ha* Big Family to Help. Newcastle, Ind. — (Special.) — Unci* Ephraim Leakey, a Republican patriarch of Henry county, who voted the first Republican ticket ever nominated, declares he is going to “help clean the white house” this fall. Uacle Bphraim feels that he is going to have a lot es on the leb. He hM three sons aada number of grandchildren, and all the women folk* in his family to aid him. Mr. Leakey has voted for every Republican ticket since 1854, which was the first; he has voted for sixteen presidential candidates, eleven es whom were elected, and has voted for exactly the same number of candidates for governor with exactly the same results. He helped elect Abraham Lincoln. There are two sides to every question, and even if there were three we believe that each of our Ohio candidates for President could be on all of them at once. 1 ’