Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1920 — MAY BE TAKEN OFF TICKET [ARTICLE]

MAY BE TAKEN OFF TICKET

Republican Candidate for State Treasurer in Limelight. The Republicans seem to have been unfortunate in their selection of a candidate for treasurer of state at their convention in Indianapolis last week. Through a deal alleged to have been engineered by the Jim Watson and McCray forces, Ora J. Davies of Kokomo was nominated, and in consideration ot the support of the Jim Watson bunch Davies threw the Howard county delegation to the support of John Owen, manager for Senator Watson, and Morris Ritchie of Lebanon as delegates from the Ninth district to the national convention at Chicago. Owen and Ritchie, who are openly opposed to the presidential candidacy of Leonard Wood, were elected in spite of the fact that the Ninth dis-, trict gave Wood a very large plur-. ality in the presidential primary' It has since been made public by the Wood supporters that Davies, who is a former treasurer of Howard county and city treasurer of Kokomo, was found short in his accounts as such official several thousand dollars and was required to make same good by the state board of accounts. Protests are now coming in and a demand is to be made. It is said, that Davies be removed from the state ticket because it is feared that his continuing as a candidate will endanger the entire ticket. There also is talk of the removal from the county ticket of. Thurman C. Sanders, treasurer of Howard county, who was deputy under Mr. Davies, as treasurer of Howard county and who is a candidate for election to that office.