Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1914 — POLITICAL NOTES. [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL NOTES.

Of Interest to Jasper County Readers of The Democrat. John R. Gray, of Rensselaer, who had announced himßelf as a candidate for the democratic nomination for county assessor, has withdrawn,

‘as he found that he was ineligible. To he eligible for this office one must have been a freeholder for four years preceding the election. M. A. Sweeney, of Jasper, Dubois county, was in the city yesterday in the interests of Richard A. Milbum, his law partner, for the democratic nomination for attorney general. The progressives of Jasper county will put out a full ticket this year and will also nominate full township tickets in most of the townships. It is said that there is not only no black-sliders reported in the local ranks, hut that there are a few new converts to the progressive cause.