Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — PECULIAR STATED OF INDIANA SENATORS [ARTICLE]

PECULIAR STATED OF INDIANA SENATORS

In view of the fact that fully 80% of the people of Indiana, regardless of their political affiliations, are for the ratification of the peace pact and league of nations covenant with few if any modifications, and the further fact that the Indianapolis Star, the (acknowledged state organ of the Republicans, and the Indianapolis News, also Republican, are likewise supporting ratification of the treaty. It is Surprising that both the Republican senators from this state —'Watson and New —Should line up with the opposition as unqualifiedly against ratification in any /form.

Both these small-bare senators; have been very hitter in their denunciation of the pact and evidently hope—as do their other opposition colleagues—to reap a littla political advantage in their opposii tion to the wishes of the people., Watson is nnw announcing himself as a candidate for the presidency—his opposition to the wishes of his constituents making it unthinkable to renominate him tp the senate, and he knows that he. can’t get the nomination for president. Hence he retires from public life as a defeated candidate for the nomination . thereto. In this way he evidently expects to be “let down easy.’”

Born together, like the Siamese twins, Mary and Margaret Gibb, daughters of Mur. and Mrs. John Gibb of Holyoke, Mass., are regular attendants at the First Presbyterian church. They were born in Springfield, Mass., May 20j. 1912. They ar® brought to the chnrch in. a large twin carriage and when (they are 1 in the pew no one would 'know that they are joined together. /Mr. and Mrs. Gibb have repeatedly refused offers to exhibit the children, and have never been willing that! a, photograph of them should be published.