Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — SIDE-STEPPING TACTICS. [ARTICLE]

SIDE-STEPPING TACTICS.

As we go to press the republican state convention is in session at Indianapolis, and such a time of side-stepping has never been seen before. Fairbanks ar¥d\Hemenway are both “sick” and unable to be in attendance.” Jim Watson had an “important business engagement” which kept him away, while several other important personages in the party found it convenient to be elsewhere. The resolutions committee decided against “We point with pride” to the county option law or the Payne-Aldrich tariff law, and makes no mention of them. Beveridge, of course, is endorsed. The task of nominating a ticket as quickly as possible and then hicking back home to draw a full breath of relief was what everyone wanted done p. d. q.