Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1914 — ANTI-TAGGART MAN LEADER OF TIPPECANOE DEMOCRATS. [ARTICLE]

ANTI-TAGGART MAN LEADER OF TIPPECANOE DEMOCRATS.

Dr. J. D. Hillis Chosen Chairman ®f County Central Committee—Harmony on the Surface. Lafayette, Ind., February 25.—Dr. J D. Hillis, an anti-Taggart man, who was secretary of the board of health under the Durgan administration, has been chosen chairman of the democratic county ?>central com■mitttee, which is made up mainly of anti-Taggart men. He was drafted for the position, there being no active candidates for it. Dr. Hillis sue-' needs David M. Boyle, the Taggart man, who was named chairman by the state committee. I Boyle has been awarded for ac•cepting the thankless task as chairman with the position of highway superintendent, tendered by the county commisisoners. He obtains the place, and several other Taggart men get jobs, because, it is said, Thomas J. Gwin, a Taggart man, and George Shelby, a republican, drew up a slate without consulting Peter J. Wall, the third commissioner. Wall is an anti-Taggart man. No active opponent of the Taggart influences has been recognized by ti.e county commissioners, and the anti-Taggart men, who are in the majority in

Tippecanoe county, are up in arms these men were pleased with the speech of Charles R. Pollard, of Delphi, at the .Jackson Club's banquet Monday night. He denounced democrats who are in line with the powers that prey, and said many counterfeit democrats were posing

as true democrats. A real democrat, he said, would not be closeted with evil corporations or with bosses whose interests were with these institutions. He said democrats that served corporations ought to be branded with the mark of Cain. He complimented the democrats of Tippecanoe county on the stand they have taken against the domination of the interests, •fudge Pollard's address was applauded by local democrats.