Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1919 — ELECT NEW STATE CHAIRMAN [ARTICLE]

ELECT NEW STATE CHAIRMAN

A. C. Sallee, an Indianapolis Man, Succeeds Fred Van Nays. Indianapolis, D6c. 4. —A. C. Sallee of Indianapolis was elected chairman of the Democratic state central committee at of Democratic state committeemen here today. The committeemen also adopted a resolution extending an Invitation to the national committee to hold the 1920 national convention In this city. ( The election of a new state chairman, which was necessitated by the appointment of Frederick Van Nuys, former Incumbent, as United States district attorney, came as the climax of a warm fight between friends of Charles J. Murphy, formerly a member of the public service commission, and a contingent which favored either Mr. Sallee or Dale J. Crlttenberger of Anderson The committee was in session more than two hours, during which there was a number of secret ballots as an elimination process. nally a vote was taken when Mr. Sallee received nine to two for Mr. Crlttenberger. The election of Mr. Sallee was then ipade unanimous.