Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1919 — DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC STATE COMMITTEE

Meets Tomorrow at Indianapolis to Elect a New Chairman. The Democratic state committee will meet at the Denison hotel in Indianapolis tomorrow lo select a successor to Fred Van Nuys, whose resignation as state chairman took effect Monday, on which date he entered the office of U. S. District Attorney L. Ert Slack, to familiarize himself with the work of the latter office to which he has been appointed to succeed Mr. Slack, whose resignation will take place soon. The Democratic state committee will be reorganized next May, and the chairman ty be selected tomorrow will serve until that time. Several names have been suggested for the place, among whom are Lew Ellingham of Decatur, former secretary of state, and Claude Bowers, former secretary to the late Senator John W. Kern.