Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — HOOSIERS WANT NO FEDERAL JOB [ARTICLE]

HOOSIERS WANT NO FEDERAL JOB

Fairbanks, Hemenway and Watson Decline. FOND OF POLITICS HERE Former Senator Sees Nothing In Mission to China—Four Different Places Are Turned Down by Former Representative Ex-Vice President Announces He Will Not Enter the Service of the Government of Uncle Sam. Washington, April 9.—lt was stated here that the mission to China tendered by President Taft to former Senator Fulton of Oregon, and taken under consideration by him, had previously been offered to former Senator Hemenway of Indiana. Former Representative Watson has declined four different places in the federal service offered to him by the president; former Vice President Fairbanks has announced that he will not enter the federal service, and former Senator Hemenway, all of Indiana, has also declined an office. All three of these gentlemen have announced that they will continue in politics in Indiana.