Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns —Matters of Minor Mention From Many Place*. HENEY WORKING FOR WILSON Californian Says President has Enacted Progressive Planks Into Law Washington, July 5.- —Francis J. Heney of California, a leader of the Roosevelt delegates to the Republican convention in 1912 and afterward active in organizing the Progressive party, has telegraphed President Wilson that he will work actively for the President’s re-elec-tion. He declared the nomination of Mr. Hughes represented the fraction of the political corruption which successfully was practiced by the Republican .national committee four years ago, and told the President that “through your personal efforts most of the important planks of the national Progressive platform of four years ago have already been enacted into law.’’