Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1910 — LEADERS END VACATION. [ARTICLE]

LEADERS END VACATION.

Governor Marshall. Jtfhn W. Kern and Senator Beveridge Ready to Work. The final stage of the Indiana campaign is foreshadowed by the homecoming of opposing leaders from their summer vacations and the preparations for the unlimbering of the big guns of the speaking campaign, which is not more than two weeks distant. In the interim the election machinery will be oiled and made ready. Governor Marshall has returned from Michigan and one of his first steps will be to organize the board of state election commissioners. Under the law the State chairman of the Democratic and Republican parties Will each name one member of this board and the Governor will serve as the third member. A clerk is also to be chosen. One of the duties of the board is to compile the vote of lsoß and return it to the auditor of each county in the state for verification. Afterward twenty-five per cent, will be added for the normal increase in the vote. The board must also prepare the ballots and arrange all other Election details in the matter of printing. There are several weeks of good, hard work ahead for the board and the Governor is jnxious to get it under way. John W. Kern. Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Indiana, hgs returned from Michigan, where he spent several weeks this "ittfijner. When he vent away he promised to come back in “fighting trim" and he haa kept his promise. His health is Improved and he is in every way ready to enter the campaign. Mr. Kern has mad* three informal Speeches since he left Michigan. ~ Senator Beveridge has returned from NeW Hampshire where he has been Testing and hearing the reports madb to him by his cabinet—“ Baron” Rothschild, Elam Neal. John R. Bonnell and Charles W. Miller. Senator Beveridge expects to begin his speaking campaign in the middle of September, the date having not been announced. He will make a few informal speeches in the meantime. The Democratic speakers’ bureau, which has been in operation for two weeks, is receiving assurances every day of assistance in the speaking cam-

palgn. Not only are the state speakers offering their time. but men of national fame are coming to the front and will be beard on the stump in behalf of Democracy.