Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — STATE CONVENTION HEXT WEEK. [ARTICLE]

STATE CONVENTION HEXT WEEK.

A Number of Excellent Democrats Aspire to the Various Offices. The democratic state convention will be held in Indianapolis next week. There are a host of candidates for the various offices. All are good men and so far as we have been able to learn Jasper county democrats have no particular choice. Perhaps of the several candidates for the nomination for governor Samuel M. Ralston- of Lebanon is the most able man in the bunch, but Thomas R.- Marshall of Columbia City, C. K. McCullough of Anderson, L. Ert Slack of Franklin, Thomas H. Kuhn of Richmond, and C. G. Conn of Elkhart, are all able men, but The Democrat’s choice would be Ralston, Marshall and Slack, in the order named. The official list of other caftdidates, as now held by Joe Riley, { secretary of the State committee, is as follows: For Lieutenant-Governor William P. O’Neill, Mishawaka; Frank E. Hering, South Bend, and Frank J. Hall, Rushville. ' For Secretary of State—James F. Cox, Columbus. For Auditor of State—Marion Bailey, Lizton. For Treasurer of State—John Isenbarger, North Manchester. For Attorney—General Walter J. Lotz, Muncie; Milton B. Hottel, Salem, and Richard M. Milburn, Jasper. For Reporter of the Supreme Court —Burt New, North Vernon, and Ralph McConnell, Oxford. For judge of 'the Supreme Court —M. B. Lairy, Logansport; .T. E. Howard, South Bend, and J. T. Cox, Peru. . > • For judge of the Appellate Court —E. W. Felt, Greenfield. For Statistician —Edward Stenger, Brookville George B. Harris. Fountain city, and P. J. Kelleher, Indianapolis. For Superintendent of Public Instruction —J. Walter Dunn, Indianapolis; Samuel L. Scott, Jeffersonville, and Hervey D. Vorles. Special curtain sale at Rowles & Parker’s, Friday and Saturday, March 20 and 21st.