Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1912 — VETERAN PARLIAMENTARIAN FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VETERAN PARLIAMENTARIAN FOR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR

The many Democratic farmer friends of Mason J. Niblack have started a movement to have his name placed before the Democratic state convention, which meets March 21, for lieutenant governor of Indiana. No Democrat in Indiana has a wider acquaintance or more real personal friends than Mr. Niblack. Many of his friends became cemented to him while he served as speaker of the house of representatives during the sessions of 1889 and 1890. He filled this high office with distinction, and had the high honor of succeeding himself, being the only speaker in the history of the state who ever succeeded hiiqself and is regarded as a high authority on parltmentary law and practice. Educated for the law and graduating from the law departmeht of Michigan university, his tastes and inclination turned him toward agriculture, and he abandoned the practice of law to take up the more congenial work of tanning. For the past 20 years he has de-

voted his time and energies to agriculture pursuits, and for several years has attended the farmers’ short courses at Purdue university. He is identified with all the agriculture interests of Indiana. . He is president of the Indiana Bee Keepers* Association, a member of the Indiana Horticulture Society, is an expert authority on the subject of pecan culture, and has been an active member of the Indiana State Board of Agriculture for sixteen years last past. Mr. Niblack is a prominent Mason, enjoying the proud distinction of being a member of the 33rd degree. Prominent farmers from all parts of the state are urging his nomination, and the movement thus started, it is belhg widely predicted, will bring the veteran parliamentarian before the coming atate convention t with a following which will insure his nomination for the office of lieutenant governor, a position for which he is eminently qualified and which undoubtedly he would fill with honor to himself and distinction to the state.

MASON J. NIBLACK.