Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1915 — •SUGGESTS DELPHI EDITOR FOR GOVERNOR. [ARTICLE]

•SUGGESTS DELPHI EDITOR FOR GOVERNOR.

The following communication from. Terre Haute appeared a few days ago in an Indianapolis paper, and the democrats might go further and worse than to act upon the writer’s suggestion: ' ■The object of this ajjicle is to discuss the nomination in 1916 with the Democrats of our state. Already several namgs have been suggested and they are all good men. With due respect for. their ability and to their loyalty to people and. to party, I want to present another name. My candidate, away back in the fifties, began editing a Democratic newspaper. Those ■were days when a newspaper of that political faith was not very popular in Indiana, and many were his struggles to keep the sheet going. When President Lincoln, in 1861, called for patriotic young men to stand up in defense of our .country, this young editor, although of a different political faith, was one of the first to answer the call, lie was not only one of the first to go, he was fine of the last to return, and through all this great struggle, while manfully upholding the honor of our nation, he held his allegiance to the party of Jefferson. He went to war a Democrat. He returned home a Democrat. He has been a Democratic editor ever since. As a soldier he had few equals and no superiors when it came to bravery or love of country. As an editor, he has been always at the front standing for what he believed to be the true principles of good government and good citizenship, yet always considerate of those who viewed political affairs differently. As a Democrat he has never known nor has he ever believed in trickery in politics, but has always been as an open book. - You have always known where to find him and; principle has been first with him always. As a Veteran he has proved so true to his comrades that he has broken down the barrier that so long existed find was so long fanned into flames by astute politicians, and was at the last session of the veterans of Indiana selected as their: state commander, being the first of his political faith to fill that position. He is the oldest active, editor in the state, and was honored by. his. fellow Editors by being elected their. president, and also was elected presi<lert <>i Uie. Xnrt'iern Indiana Editofial Association. He has spent his life in the cause of Democracy and j has never asked nor received remuneration. He is the greatest Democrat I in Indiana. Great in "body, great in ! mind and great in heart. He is always for the people. He. is a poor man so far as money counts, but he is rich in all that goes to make a great and honored citizen. Let the editors in Indiana take up his cause: it is their cause. Let the soldiers of Indiana take up his cause; it is their caqse. Let the citizens of Indiana take up his cause: if fs their cause. And now I give his name. It is the Hon. A. B. Crampton, of Delphi. What a ticket, Wilson’, Marshall, Kern, Crampton. When in the history of our state was such a combination of talent presented to the people? Teacher, lawyer, editor. A TRUE DEMOCRAT? Terre Haute, December 10. ’Bro. Crampton is a good democrat and. a very able man. He has never been connected with any political machine nor with any democratic clique. He would receive the hearty support of the democratic press of the state and, if elected, would give us an administration to which we might point with pride rather than view with alarm. The Democrat's first choice for governor in 1916 has been Editor H. A. Barnhart of Rochester, who has so ably represented the Thirteenth district in Congress for past, but if Bro. Crampton would consider the nomination we would be very much pleased to see it go to him. Of this democrats must make up their minds: If we are to carry the state in 1916 we must have a standard bearer who is entirely free from any machine or clique, and it is the rankest nonsense to give a thought to the candidacy of John B. Peterson. His well known connection with the machine element and the “Boss’.’ Murphy influence would lose vs the state by 100,000 plurality with his name at the head of the ticket.

When a single man finds things unpleasant in his boarding house.he can pack up and move to another boarding house. But a married man hasn’t that kind of a cinch.