Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1906 — SLAP AT HANLY, [ARTICLE]

SLAP AT HANLY,

Were Original Resolutions At District Meeting. POLITICIANS AGAINST 60VERN0R In Latter’s Efforts to Enforce the Law and Bring Recreant Public Officials to Justice. The republican district meeting here Tuesday was quite largely attended by delegates and “rootera” from all parts of the district. Henry W. Marshall of Lafayette was elected chairman on the first ballot, to succeed A. K. Sills of Monticello, who was not a candidate for the place. The names of Henry W. Marshall and Charles E. Thompson of Tippecanoe county; Garrett S. Van Dusen of Laporte and George Williams of thiß county were presented as candidates. The vote resulted as follows: Mar. Tbomp. Wil. VanD Benton.. 3 Jasper n Lake 32 Laporte 23 7 Newton 2 7 Porter t 6 Tippecanoe.. 16 17 Warren 11 White 9 4 - Totals 105 31 22 7 It is stated that Mr. Williams had over fifty votes pledged to him before the convention opened, but he now oan say with many others who have sought office at the hands of his political party, that there are a blamed lot of liars in this world. He is a good, clean man, and would have made a good chairman, we have no doubt. Perhaps it was the above qualifications that were not wanted, judged from past selections made in this district.

A feature of the meeting was the resolutions. Mr. Haywood of Lafayette, who is understood to have been the power that brought Marshall out as a candidate and is “agin” everything always that J. Frank Hanly wants, was made chairman of the resoluations committee. This, it appears, was all pre-arranged, of course, and when the committee reported the honest and fearless adminstration of “our matohleßs president Theodore Roosevelt, and the course of “our peerless representative in congress, Hon. E. D. Crumpacker,” were lauded to the skies. But there was never a "cheep” about our “valiant and law enforcing governor, J. Frank Hanly.” After reading of there solutions Will Ade of Kentland got up and moved that a paragraph be inserted endorsing Hanly. (It semes that the snub at J. Frank was expected and Ade had been selected to move for the Hanly resolution by the latter’s friends.) Ex-chairman Sills, who was presiding, informed Ade that his motiqn was too long winded for him to remember and put to the convention, and if he wanted it put he would have to reduce it to writing. This was but another scheme to head off the resolution, bnt it was reduced to writing and the friends of the governor weTe strong enough to get the motion through, ana J. Frank got the endorsement of the Tenth his own distriot, but he owes no thanks to tha professional politicians of his party for it.