Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* In the Nearby Citiea and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Localities. ELEVATOR THIEVES AT MbNON The Monon elevator, owned and operated by D. R. Brookie, was broken into Monday night and an unknown quantity of wheat carried away. Entrance was gained through a window and no trace of the intruder has been found. Tuesday morning when the theft wae discovered, It was learned that the lock on Eisenburg and Glick’s storeroom, under the overall factory, had been tampered with, from which it is inferred that the same party who stole the wheat tried to add to his loot material from the x factory. Stores and banks are common prey to bandits these days, but elevator thieves are a new innovation for burglary. —Monon News. A HARMONIOUS (?) CONVENTION Where Every One Had a Dagger Up His Sleeve for the Other Fellow. The more partisan Republican press has published columns about the harmony that prevailed at the Republican state convention this week, but such tale is not told by all the party press. For instance, the Indianapolis News, which gave a very detailed report of the proceedings, told of the black-jack methods used by the “old guard” and how the combination of Jim Watson and W. T. McCray tried to oust State Chaimian Wasmuth, and only yielded when they were forced to do so. It also told of autocratic methods to stifle any opposition to the pro-* gram laid down by the machine for the convention proper, which is interesting to the layman who is supposed to shut his eyes and "vote ’er straight.” Here is also a little incident reported by the News of the Eighth district meeting of Wednesday night where delegates were selected to the national convention, which should be of particular interest to voters all over the state because of the reference to a barrel of money brought into that district in the recent primary to put a certain candidate across tor governor: Fireworks began in the meeting when Ed S. Goodrich, a brother of the governor, pronounced the name of Mr. Moorman as a natlonol convention delegate. Earl Fouts of ’’Muncie proposed the name of Kitselman. James S. Alldredge of Anderson and Roy M. Fried ley of Muncie proposed respectively James A. Van Osdol of Anderson and Robe Carl White of Anderson as' Wood delegates. Paul P. Haynes of Anderson threw a bomb into the camp when, in seconding the Wood delegates’ nomination, he said: "I am not a Wood man, but the Eighth district voted for General Wood and the delegates should be Wood men. Mr. Moorman and Mr. Kitselman are not at heart Wood delegates. That being the case, every duty of political honor for the Eighth district would require that the delegates be instructed for General Wood. “I have no grievance against Mr. Moorman personally, but he brought thousands of dollars of an outside man’s money into the Eighth district to defeat an Eighth district candidate for governor and now he is coming to the district and asking it to honor him.” Mr. Moorman was a McCray worker and, according to a private remark of E. C. Toner, “every word of what Haynes said is true.” But Moorman and Kitselman were made delegates, just the same. And here follows a report of some of the work in the ;Ninth district: ■ Because of the old guard slate of candidates for nominations for state office, it was said that J. A. Kautz of Kokomo was practically forced out of the race for delegate from the Ninth district. Ora Davies of Kokomo is a candidate for- the nomination for state treasurer, and it is reported that the Watson-Mc-Cray forces brought such pressure too bear in Howard county that 16 delegates of the county lined up against Wood candidates for delegate

to the national convention. A threat o£ no support for Davies was made in order to take Howard county delegates away from Wood. The combination of the old guard Watson-McCray forces for the convention today is reported to include Davies for state treasurer, U. S. Lesh for attorney-general, Arthur E. Linn of Laporte for lieutenant-gov-ernor and W. G. Oliver for state auditor. The Tenth and Eleventh district delegates to the Chicago convention were instructed to vote for Hl Johnson for president. The delegates from this district are Walter E. Schrage of Whiting and Thomas Bauer of Lafayette, with A. K. Worstell of Valparaiso and Ada Bush

of alternates. The presidential elector from the Tenth district is J. B. Lyons of Brook. The “old guard” put over Senators Watson and New,' Governor Goodrich and former Senator Beveridge as the "big four” to the national convention, and gave two places to the women —alternate delegates at large. One of the delegates at large is an Evansville negro, says the Lafayette Journal. The entire ticket as adopted by the convention follows: United States senator—James E. Watson, incumbent, Rushville. Governor —Warren T. McCray, Kentland. Lieut.-Governor —Emmet F. Branch, Martinsville. Secretary of State —Ed Jackson, incumbent, Lafayette. Auditor of State —William G. Oliver, Franklin. Treasurer of State —Ora J, Davies, Kokomo. Attorney-General—U. S. Lesh, Huntington. Delegates at large to national convention — United States Senator James E. Watson, Rushville; United States Senator Harry S. New, In. dianapoHs; Governor James P. Goodrich, and former United States Senator Albert J. Beveridge, Indianapolis. Alternate delegates at large to the national convention —State Chairman E. M. Wasmuth, Indianapolis; Mrs. Charles A» Carlisle, South Bend; Mrs. Joseph B. Kealing, Indianapolis, and W. A. Gains, Evansville. Presidential electors —L. C. HeusPresidential electors at large —L. C. Heusmann, Indianapolis; John Barbezette, Terre Haute. Superintendent of public instruction—L. N. Hines, incumbent, Crawfordsville. Reporter supreme court —Will H. Adams, incumbent, Wabash. Judges appellate court: First district —E. A. Dausman, incumbent,

Goshen. Second district —Ira C. Batman, incumbent, Bloomington. Judge supreme court: Fifth district —Julius Travis, Laporte.