Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1911 — PLAN JACKSON DAY FEAST [ARTICLE]

PLAN JACKSON DAY FEAST

Lafayette Democrats Ask National Speakers to Attend Banquet. Lafayette, Incl,, Sept. 18. —At a meeting of a committee of the Jackson Club invitations were sent out to Democratic leaders in the United States to attend the annual Jackson day banquet here in December. It is intended to make . this banquet the' largest and most elaborate ever held by the club. The feast will mark the opening of the Democratic presidential campaign and will be an affair of national importance. Invitations were sent to Governor Woodwrow Wilson, of i New Jersey ; Governor Judson Harmon, of Ohio; Champ Clark, Speaker of the house of representatives; William J. Bryan; Joseph Dudley Foulk, of Misi souri, and Governor Marshall, of I Indiana. It is believed that all of these men will be present and make addresses. Mayor George R. Durgan is chairman of the speakers committee. The' banquet is usually'held in January, but will be earlier than usual this time and a date between Christmas and New Year’s will be selected. The Democrat office is well equipped to do the better grades of job printing.