Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1910 — DEMOCRATS FOR HONAN [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS FOR HONAN

To Succeed E. D. Crumpacker for Congress In the Tenth. Indianapolis News: The announcement Tuesday that there was a movement on foot amoung the insurgent Republicans of the Tenth congressional district to bring about the defeat of. Congressman Grumpacker from that district, has started the political wheels going. It seems that the real movement which is on foot in the northern end of the district is to have A. F. Knotts, former mayor of Hammond, who is an insurgent Republican, nominated by the Democrats on a progressive platform as opopsed to the platform which was adopted at the Tenth district Republican congressional convention and which declares that the present tariff law is a step in the right direction.. In other words, Mr. Knotts would be the Foss of the Tenth district and would expect to draw the support of the Democrats and of the progressive Republicans. Mr. Knotts, who was in the city yesterday, said he had heard talk of such a movement, but he declined to disfuss his attitude in the matter. It is said that some of the political leaders of the southern part of the Tenth district would be opposed to the movement and the long distance telephone is understood to have been in pretty-general use in the Tenth district last night for political purposes. The political leaders were talking with one another labout the proposal to have' Knotts as a candidate for. congress, and one prominent Democrat from the southern end of the district said to-day that he’ felt sure the movement to bring. Knotts out as the fusion (candidate in the Tenth would be headed off. i It is said that. Democrats in the southern end of the Tenth district believe they can defeat. Crumpacker with one who lias always been in their own ranksas the congressional candidate, - Edward Honan, of Rensselaer, a lawyer and well known Democrat, has been pretty generally discussed for the congressional nomination, and it is said he will have much strength among the southern counties of the Tenth.’