Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — WHY MR. MCCRAY’S SILENCE [ARTICLE]

WHY MR. MCCRAY’S SILENCE

On His Connections With the Sawers Grain Company of Chicago? Why is it that “Fanner” McCray never says a word in his speeches before farmer audiences regarding the well-known sact —in this part of the state, at least —that he 13 a banker and stock broker, or “board of trade" man, but Instead bombastically and erroneously proclaims himself a farmer? Is he ashamed of being a banker? Surely there is nothing dishonorable in this 'balling. Of course, as to his vice-presidency and controlling spirit in the Sawers Grain Co., a Chicago board of trade concern, .many people have little use for that sort of business and he may ? »a exercising very good Judgment in '.•Arming to keep his connection with “such a concern from the real hon-est-to-God farmer. Up in this part of the state it -is well known that be IS connected with the* above “board of trade” concern, and his assessment sheets on file in the auditor’s office in Kentland, in answer to the question, stocks owned in. other corporations? says: “The Sawers Grain Co., assessed in Illinois/’ ‘ But the people are entitled to know a candidate’s connections with such concerns, and if Mr. McCray Is the straightforward, honest man his political friends claim he is, he will frankly tell them the- truth, that he is the vice-president and a heavy stockholder in sajd grain company, and that the business of said company is dealing in “futures” on the board of trade.

GOODBYE, MOIKE —SO LONG! * Republican papers of this district are saying, with great gusto, that Viko Duffy of Fowler made a speech at -a Republican meeting held at Brook last Friday In which he announced that he had left the Demodratic party and gone over to the Republicans. Good! t Moike has been a source of considerable annoyance to the Democrats for the last quarter of a century and no doubt the Republicans vrill find him the same way. We do not remember of a Democratic campaign but what Moike has had hia hand out for an -office and he was just as regularly turned down. For the past 15 or 20 years he has thought that he was, the only Democrat that could be elected to congress from this district, but the delegates always saw it differently, much to Moike’s disgust, and he never got a look-in for the nomination/ Goodbye, Moike, may your new associates recognise your peculiar qualities of statesmanship and your unexampled ability as a vote getter, and that your great desire of many, many long years- to break into office and go down to Washington, D. C., may be gratified through your new found friends, whom you have repeatedly denounced —when wanting something from the Democrats—ll 4 'rms that did great credit to the 1 . language.