Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — KNOCKS HIM OUT [ARTICLE]

KNOCKS HIM OUT

Johnson’s Vote Saturday Takes Him Off Ticket. HE WILL RESI6N HIS CANDIDACY. His Constituency Is “Wet” and There Is a Rod In Fickle for Him— State Notes. Indianapolis. Oct. 2.—D. C. Johnson. Republican representative from Vigo and Vermilion counties, has announced that he will withdraw from the race for re-election. He was renominated by his party and Lis name Is now on the ticket, but he will take It off at once. Johnson will take this action because, he says, be voted against the wishes of his constituents on the county local option bill. He voted for the passage of the bill, and he says this fact would mark him for defeat at the •lection in case he were to remain on the ticket. ,

Explains His Emotion. Johnson cried like a child when fie cast his vote for the county option bill last Saturday, and he almost fell into the arms of his daughter, who was sitting with him, after he bad said “aye.’* He says he favored county option from principle while he knew that his two counties opposed it, and It was the conflict between his own conscience and bis duty to his constituents that made him almost a total wreck at that moment. His Decision Is His Own. Johnson was with Crawford Fairbanks, president of the Terre Haute Brewing company, and Floyd Wood* yesterday at the Denison Hotel, but he said they had nothing to do with his decision to withdraw from the ticket.. *T have known Crawford Fairbanks for years,” said Johnson. “He has always been a good friend of mine and lam sorry I was obliged to vote against him and his interests, but that Is neither here nor there. Will Lose Business by His Vote. 1 “He has not said a word to me about my future action, and my decision to retire from the ticket is a subject that we have not discussed. I never did ft dollar's worth of business for him. however, but have done some legal business for two or three other breweries, and have also done considerable business for saloon men in my town I know what they will say when I go> home.”