Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 March 1908 — DELEGATE THARP HITS BACK. [ARTICLE]

DELEGATE THARP HITS BACK.

The Republican lighted on the Senatorial convention delegate from Carpenter tp., John Tharp of Remington, most fiercely for his refusal to vote for Abe Halleck for senator at Monticello last Friday. Mr. Tharp called up The Democrat by ’phone Tuesday and refutes the statements made by the Republican in toto. He says the machine did try wondroUsly hard to get him to vote for Halleck and pretended they had 'phoned out to Remington and found that he had been Instructed to vote for Halleck, which he says is a blank lie. “ He says that he told them that he never did want to vote for Halleck at any time during all the years the latter has been pulling at the public teat, and only did so because ne was on his (Mr. Tharp's) ticket; that he was always at the tail end when the votes were counted and was a dead weight on the republican county ballot. The machine told him, he says, that Carpenter always sent a lot of d fools to the conventions, meaning that occasionally some of these delegates refused to support the class of candidates whom the machine wanted them to. to. From what we know of the people of Remington and Carpenter township, Mr. Tharp’s action will be heartily, endorsed by his party there, regardless of the wishes of the political machine at Rensselaer.