Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — CONCERTED MISREPRESENTATION. [ARTICLE]

CONCERTED MISREPRESENTATION.

All of the Republican papers of the state are just now printing something like the following: ••It is no secret that the Taggart contingent which controlled the platform committee at the recent state convention cut out a plank indorsing Governor Marshall for president."

This statement is not onlv untrue. but it is unfair to both Mr. Taggart and Governor Marshall. Everybody knows that Governor Marshall did not want the convention to put him forward as a candidate for t x h.e presidency. The platform committee merely reflected the governor's desire in the matter. At the proper time every Democrat in Indiana will be for Marshall for president. Recent Washington dispatches say that the friends of other probable candidates falave made a serious mistake in,starting premature booms, , and that the attitude of Governor Marshall has caused him to be looked upon with exceptional favor. “It is no secret’’ that a large majority of the resolutions committee was personally friendly to the governor. and thfere was not a man on the committee who would have opposed an indorsement if it had been thought that such a course would be helpful.