Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — FORMER SERVICE MEN QUIT G. O. P. FOR COX [ARTICLE]

FORMER SERVICE MEN QUIT G. O. P. FOR COX

Issue Statement Indorsing League— Others Announce Switch. New York, Oct. 22.—The newest recruits to the legion of representative men and women who have notified Hamilton Holt, editor of the Independent Magazine, that instead of voting the Republican ticket, as has been the custom, they will vote this year for Cox and Roosevelt on the league of nations issue, are former service men who fought overseas. The letter received by Mr. Holt, signed aby eight former service men, Republicans, who are going to vote for Cox and Roosevelt, follows: Former Soldiers Sign The signers of the letter were: Harold S. Bole, former first lieutenant, Woodside, L. I.; Laurence Brevoort, former private, 113 West 78th street, New York; Wurd Lewis, former private, 61 West 51st street. New York; R. Hermann, former sergeant, 345 Convent avenue, New York; John J. Nolan, former private, Rochester, N. Y.; August Babst, former private, 108 East 81st street, New York; Joseph W. Greenberg, former private, care Butterick company, New York; Henry L. Blbley, former major, 156 East 79th street, New York. Others who said they could not

vote for Senator Harding are the Rev. Charles Francis Potter, West Side Unitarian churcTi, New York; Edwi'n E. Tupple, field organizer, American Red Cross, Boston; Henry Wharton, president Montrose Pocohontas Coal company, Philadelphia; Oswald W. Knaubt, 37 West 67th street, New York; Joseph Misbach, state progressive committee of lowa, Algona, la;; O. W. Stephenson, state progressive committee of lowa, Fayette, la.; J. W. R. Smith, Abenid, O.; W. E. Perkin, Harvard university; the Rev. Arvin C. Bacon, former army chaplain, A. E. F., pastor Park Avenue Congregational church, Minneapolis, and Ralph Davel, publisher, Tauton, Mass. J. J. Whitehead, Jr., editor of the Putnam (Patriot, a Republican newspaper published at Putnam, has come out with an editorial supporting Cox. “We, the undersigned, who have been members of the Republican party, announce our intention of voting for the Democratic nominee for president. "As ex-soldiers who served many months with the Americans and French we believe that the league of nations is the only sure means of preventing the young manhood of America and of the world being again stifled in a war of blood.’'