Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF IHE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Plaoca. EDITOR ENTERS RACE For Democratic Nomination for Congress—Not Likely to Have Opposition. Rheno M. Isherwood, editor of the Tippecanoe County Democrat, on Friday last filed liis declaration for the Democratic nomination to congress from this district. Up to date Mr. Islierwood has no opposition and possibly will not have, lie is known to nearly all the Defnocrats of this locality, having lived either in Lafayette or Delphi for the past thirty-one years. About twenty years he edited Delphi newspapers, but eight years ago he assumed control of the Democrat and has since conducted it. Later on a sketch of Mr. Isherwood's life will appear in these columns. Suffice it to say now that lie began, work in a printing office at eleven years of age and has been away from the business scarcely a day in thirty-eight years. His entry into politics occurred when at 16 he wan elected secretary of the Carroll County Democratic committee. For more than a quarter of a century Mr. Isherwood has been working to put other Democrats into office and this year thought he would try it himself. He will make an aggressive campaign, fully expecting to overcome the tremendous Republican majority in tl?*i district. Tippecanoe County Democrat.