Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — GREETED BY VAST THRONGS [ARTICLE]

GREETED BY VAST THRONGS

Gov. Cox Speaks to 100,000 People on Trip Through Indiana. Governor James M. Cox spoke to about 100,000 people on his trip through the state Wednesday, including the big meeting at Lafayette Tuesday night, more than 20,000 people from Tippecanoe and surrounding counties heard the governor, Thomas Taggart and others. Scores of people from Jasper county attended the Lafayette speaking, and all were loud in their praises of Governor Cox and say that many converts to the league of nations were made by his clear and honest statements regarding this great issue. From Lafayette Gov. Cox went out pver the Wabash road Wednesday to Ft. Wayne, being greeted by large crowds of enthusiastic people at every stop. He spoke at Logansport, Peru, Wabash, Huntington and Ft. Wayne Wednesday, going from there back into Ohio. Governor Cox came into Indiana Tuesday evening from Peoria, 111., over the T. P. & W. R- R, and from State Line to Reynolds over the Pan Handle road. He made a rear platform talk of five minutes at Kentland and at Reynolds spoke perhaps 10 or 15 minutes, being met by large crowds at both places. He did not reach Lafayette until about 8:45 p. m., and there the streets were packed with a solid mass of people for a block or more in each direction from the southeast corner of the court house, from which he delivered his address. x