Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — DEMOCRATIC EDITORS MEET. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC EDITORS MEET.

Tenth District Pen-Pushers fleet at Lafayette and Organize a District Association. The democratic editors of the Tenth District met at Lafayette Saturday evening and organized a district editorial association with the following officers: President, H. B. Darling of the Laporte Argus-Bulletin; Vice-President, S. E. Swaim of the Lake County News; Secretary, Geo. Robey of' the Benton Review; Treasurer, J. P. Simons of the White County Democrat; Executive Committee, J. B. Faulknor of the Michigan City Dispatch; A, F. Zimmerman of the Valparaiso Messenger; E. J. Steinbach *of the Kentland Democrat; F. E. Babcock of the Jasper County Democrat. The object of the association is to get together in asocial way and for mutual benefit and to exchange views that more effective work may be done for party success in future campaigns. The association will meet frequently and has accepted the invitation of President Darling to hold its next meeting at his city some time in December, at which time District Chairman Risk, and Mayor Dargan of Lafayette and other prominent democrats will also be present. Editor Faulknor also extended an invitation for the association to meet at Michigan City some time next spring, when as a part of the entertainment, a lake trip to Chicago will be arranged for. At Lafayette the editors were the guests of District Chairman James K. Risk, who is a prince of good fellows {and as a jolly host takes no rear seat. Saturday night the Jackson Club held open house and entertained the editors in their handsomely appointed Club rooms where luncheon and coffee was served. Sunday morning four automobiles were brought around to the Lahr House at 10 o’clock and the guests were taken in charge by Chairman Risk, J. W. Schooler, Judge Field and another gentleman, as chaperons, and carried out along Tecumseh trail to the State Soldiers’ Home, where a stop was made and some of the larger buildings visited. From thence out west of the home down through West Lafayette, through the grounds of Purdue University, to the Purdue University Farm, through the cattle pens and stables where the fine stock is kept, thence back through the fine residence part of the city and through Columbia Park, then back to the city and to the handsome home of the Lafayette Club, where nn elaborate course dinner was served at the noon hour. At the conclusion of this banquet the resolutions committee composed of Darling, Faulknor and Babcock reported the fellow, inc, which was unanimously adopted:

With the belief that the exitfenciet of the situation require the leadership m th-* campaign of 19 >8 ofa man wbuse rolio-s are t»«>l inimical to democratic success, be it therefore Resolved. That in William Jennings Bryan the democratic partv of t ie nation has a leader whose wisdom is ui,qijee<io’ied, and whose persistent and r.oq lent advocacy of party principles has made bis leadership unchallenged. Be it therefore further Resolved, That we, the dermcrati; editors of the Tenth district association, proclaim him as the man who shout 1 be named as the party standard bearer in 1908 with the belief that under his m itchless leadership a splendid trtutpph will be won in state and nation.

A resolution complimenting Chairman Risk and the Jackson Club for the splendid entertainment provided was also adopted, and it was the sense of the editors that they bad never had a more pleasant or profitable gathering, that Lafayette was one of the prettiest little cities in existence and was governed by one of the most amiable mayors in the land, whose popularity with the people was such that he was elected, with a full set of democratic city officers —except one councilman —in spite of the immense normal republican majority against him.