Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1906 — REPUBLICAN MEETINGS. [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICAN MEETINGS.

It waa declared even by the papers friendly to him that Governor Hanly** opening meeting of the campaign wav "cold” and “unresponsive” and now comes the Indianapolis News’ special report of Senator Hemenway’s Shelbyville effort. The News said: All through the meeting Senator Hemenway was acting as a sort of a “booster" for "Uncle Joe” Cannon. It was “Uncle Joe” said this, “Uncle Joe” did that and “Uncle Joe’s” name did not cause the hats to go in the air, even when Mr. Hemenway said that the Republican congress had carried out the “policies of Roosevelt and Cannon." There was only a feeble response when Hanly’s name was mentioned, and Roosevelt’s name, worked up to a climax, fell fiat. Referring to Mark Hanna, Mr. Hemenway exclaimed, “God bless his memory, that grand old Republican!" and the audience gave a few exclamations of approval, but even that did not make much more than a ripple. The senator’s eulogy of Congressman Watson was given just scant recognition, and most of that came fiom the postmasters and office-holders appointed by Mr. Watson. The above appeared in the noon edition of the News, but it was cut out of the account of the meeting as it was printed in later editions. It was written by a staff correspondent long connected with the paper, but he evidently stepped on too many corns at one stride. Authentic reports of all of the Republican meetings thus far held indicate that they are not only slimly attended, but that there is a painful lack of interest and enthusiasm.