Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Tilegraphlc Reports From Many . Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happening* In the Nearby Cities and Town* — Matter* of Minor Mention From Many Localities. DAVIES REFUSES TO GET OFF Republican State Ticket, and Many Member* of Party Are Sore. Indianapolis, Oct 6. —Ora Davies, candidate on the Republican ticket for treasurer of state, at a recent meeting with members of the Republican state committee flatly refused to off the ticket, according to information obtained Tuesday. The committee at that time declined to accept from Mr. Davies his assessed quota of SLBOO for Republican campaign purposes. Whether the committee since that time has accepted the money is not known. In view of the fact that Mr. Davies, for what some believe is the last time, refused to get off the ticket, it might be that the committee will accept the contribution, it has been ascertained. z The affair is reported to hal% virtually ended the attempts to get Davies off the ticket, for it -is realized, some of the politicians on the inside say, that no one except Davies can withdraw hie name. The nomination of Davies at the state Republican convention last spring was-the result-of a deal, the purpose of which was to give absolute control ot the Republican state organization to Senator Watson',' and to aid in banging about the defeat ot Leonard Wood for the presidential nomination. The state board qf accounts once found Davies short in hfs accounts when he was Howard county treasurer, but despite this fact and the fact that there was general knowledge of the shortage among Republicans, he was nominated for the state treasurership. So much stir was caused by the manipulation which landed the nomination for Davies that many Republicans have tried to get him to withdraw. His friends, however, have taken the attitude that the voters of Indiana are so anxious to keep the Republicans in power in Indiana that there* will be a Republican landslide great enough to carry Davies into office despite the protests. The method of making assessments to be paid by candidates is to take. 12 per cent of what the candidate will receive in two years *lf elected. For instance, the salary of the state treasurer Is $7,560 a year. Two years would be, $15,006 and 12 per cent of this would be SI,BOO, the amount Davies was expected to pay toward campaign expenses, that le, If the committee finally decided to accept the contribution.