Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 October 1920 — “A TOWER OF STRENGTH.” [ARTICLE]

“A TOWER OF STRENGTH.”

(From The Washington Herald, Tuesday, September 21, 1920.) Proof is piling up every day of the campaign that the republicans of Indiana builded most wisely and well when they chose, by an astonishing vote of confidence in him, Warren T. McGray of Kentland to lead the republican state ticket as the candidate for governor. As the republicans come to know more of him their satisfaction with the outcome of the May primaries en- । larges. McCray grows with closer acquaintance, and that is a great compliment to a public man. Long before his nomination, The Herald called attention to a phase of his character that showed the fidelity of the mam. When he was defeated in 1916 for the "nomination, there was not a single note of complaint, not a word of disappointment. He took off his coat, and went to work for the ticket with hands, head and purse. Right then he endeared himself to the republicans of Indiana and laid the sure foundations for his success in 1920. The people like a good loser, hut a man has to be made of the right sort to staff t» be a good loser. "I hav* no hobbies and no fad* to’ try out.” The sentence we have quoted is Warren McCray’s brief, expressive and illuminating campaign . platform. More could not be said in a column. The declaration is typical of the man himself. When it is said of Warren McCray that he is a plain man of the people, the truth is spoken, the whole truth and nothing but the' truth. He is an Indianian without guile, a successful man, quiet, confident, self-con-tained. What he says he knows, and means. He understands the people of his state because he is one of them, an important unit in the economic and industrial life of the state. He is a farmer, and best is known jas such, perhaps, but his activities and interests are general. He will take to the office of governor the qualities which make for aidministration success in every way-—the attributes of common sense combined with knowledge and information.

It is predicted that Warren Me-' Cray will lead the Indiana vote when the returns are compiled in November. Maybe he will. The contrast between him and his ocratic opponent is marked. It is the case of a practical business man who comprehends the needs- of the state against a constricted professional whose knowledge of the people of Indiana is confined to a narrow circle of acquaintances in the city of Indianapolis.