Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — FORMER REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR JOINS DEMOCRATS [ARTICLE]

FORMER REPUBLICAN STATE SENATOR JOINS DEMOCRATS

Henry P. Pearson, Also Once Mayor of Bedford, Believes in League of Nations. Henry P. Pearson, who was for a long period a prominent Republican of Bedford, having been the Republican mayor of that city and also a state senator, has written to L. Ert Slack of Indianapolis, who served with him in the senate, that on account of his belief in the league of nations, he can not vote the Republican ticket but Is affiliating with the Democrats. “Your letter of recent date congratulating me on my Btand on the league of nations to hand,” says Mr. Pearson. “You are right; it does take some courage to affiliate with another party, in view of the fact that your father and practically all his people have been Republicans all their lives, he having served on the bench for some 14 years, elected to such office by the Republican party; when you have served as mayor of your city for four years and as state senator for two terms, representing that party; when In fact me party has never turned you down., “However, I rather regard the vote this year In the light of finishing the war. Like Herbert Hoover, I said I would be for the party that came out ‘flat-footed’ for the league of nations, and I meant It; it seems that Hoover did not. “I am unable to see how a man like Taft who said the league transcended all domestic issues and would justify one ip breaking party ties In

order to procure this great boon for the world and this country and who has only a little time on this old earth at can so stultify himself by standing by Harding who Is now so pronouncedly against the league of nations. However, thank goodness, I am not the keeper of Hoover's or Taft’s consciences, i “My son Henry, whom you once met in Indianapolis, laid down his school books and spent two years in the service of his country, and that js another reason why I want, to vote for the league of nations; I don’t want to have to see him- or my younger son go to war again. “Cox made a good Impression here and I can not see how he can fail to be elected.”