Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1910 — PETERSON A VOTE GETTER. [ARTICLE]

PETERSON A VOTE GETTER.

Benton Review: A republican newspaper advances as an argument against the Congressional candidacy of Hon. John B. Peterson the fact that he is not ■known to the voters of this district. The Tenth Indiana congressional district is as large as the state of Delaware or Rhode Island, it is one third as large as New Hampshire or Massachusetts, one half as large as New Jersey and two-thirds as large as Connecticut. How many people do you know personally in a territory of that scope? It is not disparagement of Mr, Peterson’s ability that he has not spent his life running up and down the district seeking office and making his appearance as regularly as the assessor or lightning rod agent. Mr. Peterson is known and respected in his home county and the counties adjoining and hundreds of men of opposite political faiths will .go to the polls in November and vote for him because they are personally acquainted with his sterling worth. Where he is: known you will find no newspaper, however partisan, belittling this man, because he measures up to every standard of clean honest citizenship.

He has not been an office seeker but at the urgent request of men of all parties he has served with credit in the important post of prosecuting attorney. In the strong republican district composed of Lake and Porter counties he was elected in 1882, overcoming a republican majority of more than 1,200. In 1884 he was rfe-elected in the district composed of Lake, Porter, Starke and • Pulaski counties' defeating Chas. F. Griffin, a republican tower of strength, by 1,000 majority, while the same district returned a majority of 1,000 for the republican state ticket* Mr. Peterson has sat upon the bench as special judge in many important cases and acquitted himself with credit. He is a man of the people, a worthy representative of the intelligent citizenship of this district and deserving the support of every man who believes that his interests and’the interests of his neighbor are of more moment to him personally than the interests of the millioniare trust-promoting crew who are controlling the affairs of the nation and state and district through their allies in the halls of Congress. kemember the dates for Rensselaer’s Horse Show, Sept. 29, 30 and Oct. I.