Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1914 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports from Many Parts of the Country SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Hapi>enings in Distant and Nearby Cities and towns—Matters of Minor Mendon from Many Places. FRIENDS OF boehne Want Him to Enter Senatorial Race If Taggart Runs. Evansville, Ind., January 28.Close friends of former Congressman John W. Boehne here say that in the event that Thomas Taggart lets his name go before the state convention as a candidate for United States Senator against Senator B. F. Shively they will try and induce Boehne to become a candidate. Boehne is one of the antl-Taggart leaders of the First district, and was present at the recent meeting at Indianapolis when the Bryan and Wilson League was organized.