Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1914 — DITTLER PICKED – FOB TREASURER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DITTLER PICKED - FOB TREASURER

His Rase Cvarshadcws Every fitter Contest. MAKING AGSRESSiVE CAMPAIGN Democratic Politicians Throughout Indiana Believe Fort Wayne Candidate Has the Strongest Chance of Winning Nomination at the Approaching State Convention Accounts Board Member Appears Far in the Lead. I:Mianapolis, March, 1L With the approach of the Democratic state eon-y.-:;*ton, March 19; the race fojr the nomination for state treasurer, which, by far, has overshadowed every other contest, is drawing to a close and there now is every indication that George A. Rittler of Fort Wayne will win the recognition of the convention. Bittier has been making the most aggressive campaign and, according to politicians who have been watchincr the race closely, has bagged most of th • delegates. The Fort Wayne man’s friends assert that he has from three

to a dozen of his friends on every delegation reported and will have, according to'their early estimate at least 397 votes on the first ballot. These votes, they say, will stay with him to the end. Bittier is conceded to be the strongest candidate by all his opponents and, according to his friends, has second choice strength enough to iand him the nomination on the third ballot

• here are so many candidates for treasurer that the contest is bound to develop into an elimination race. From the first liittler has been recognized as the best qualified man in the race and the strongest contender in view of the machinery behind him, the organization he has built up and the wide acquaintance he has throughout the state. He has had the advantage of a close personal relationship with 6,100 public officials throughout the state by reason of the membership he holds on the state board of accounts. In that capacity also he has demonstrated, his fitness for the office, having formed ah intimate knowledge of the duties of the state treasurer and the workings of the treasurer's office, and having made an exhaustive study of the intricate subject of taxation ana kindred questions with which the treasurer must grapple. He has familiarized himself with the books in the treasurer’s office through repeated examinations by his department, and has qualified himself in every way. In addition to these qualifications he has had the necessary banking experience. At the time of his appointment to the state board of accounts he was cashier of the Nuttman bank in lort Wayne, tie was secretary of the Fort \\ syne chapter of the American Institute of Banking and treasurer of ti e. Teutonia Buildihg and Loan Association of Fort Wayne. He is at present a member of the advisory committee cf the Citizens’ Trust company in Fort Wayne and is chairman of the finance committee of the Indian:! Democratic jglub in Indianapolis, of which he has been a member lor several years. He is also a member of the membership committee of this club, and scores of tiie members of the club have all along given him enthusiastic support.

Prior to coming to Indianapolis Mr. Bittler served ten years as, secretary of the Jefferson club in Fort Wayne, the eldest Democratic club in Indiana, and that organization is enthusiastically behind his candidacy. lie has not only been indorsed by* the Jefferson club, but by every banker, professional and business man in Fort Wayne. The Democrats of Allen county in convention assembled gave him a ringing indorsement and the Twelfth •district congressional and district conventions both indorsed him. A statement was issued by the district, comity and city chairmen and secretaries of the Democratic party organizations In Fort, Wayne, testifying to Mr. Bittier’s unquestioned Democracy and his long and ardent party service. —Advertisement.

GEORGE A. BITTLER.