Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1912 — Mayor Durgan May Be In the Race. [ARTICLE]

Mayor Durgan May Be In the Race.

Friends of Mayor George R. Durgan of Lafayette want him to become a candidate for the democratic congressional nomination, it is said. He is now serving his third term as mayor, elected each time by an increased majority, and is a power in Lafayette and Tippecanoe county where his honest and business-like administrations have won the support of the voters of all political persuasions. His friends say he can carry Tippecanoe county by at least 2,000 majority, although the cqunty is normally about 1,800 republican. Mayor Durgan thus Tar has made no public announcement as to whether or not he will listen to the urging of his friends and become a candidate for the nomination.