Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1912 — Marion Club Directors Expel Nine Progressives. [ARTICLE]

Marion Club Directors Expel Nine Progressives.

The Marton Club of Indianapolis has nine fewer members, because the board of directors by a vote of 8 to 2, one member not voting, expelled Albert J. Beveridge, Willits A. Bastian, Harry O. Chamberlain, Alfred R. Hovey, Dr. Edward A. Willis, Charles M. Reagan, L. H. Vanßriggle, Fred Weise and Samuel Joseph for deserting the Republican party and becoming active members of the Progressive party. In the recent campaign Beveridge was the Progressive nominee for Governor; 1 Reagen, for. joint senator; Van Briggle, for state senator; Dr. Willis, for coroner; Weise, for county commissioner, and Joseph, for representative. Bastian is Progressive county chairman, and Chamberlain is the Progressive district chairman.

Action of the board followed tne hearing of charges filed against the nine men by O. B. lies, Fred Brown and Joseph A. Minturn. It was set out in the charges that the constitution of the Marion Club limited membership to members of the Republican party, and that these men had violated that provision of the constitution by accepting nominations and offices in the Progressive party.

Bevenidgp, • Chamberlain and others have declared in speeches that the Republican party was dead and that they were out of it for all time. Such statements by these men were common throughout the campaign.