Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — TELLS WHY WOMEN RALLY FOR TAGGART [ARTICLE]

TELLS WHY WOMEN RALLY FOR TAGGART

Grace Julian Clarke Pays High Tribute to Senatorial Candidate’s Public Record and Personal Worth.

Thomas Taggart, taxpayers’ economy candidate for United States senator, is being strongly urged for election by many ladders among the women citizens of Indiana because of his record made on behalf of legislation in which Indiana women were interested. Mrs. Grace Julian Clark* of Irvington, who is credited with originating the plan for the legislative council of Indiana women, and Who has boon prominent for years as a worker for social and industrial Justice and 1 for humanitarian laws in this and other

states, says of Mr. Taggart's candidacy: “I am strongly in favor of the election of Thomas Taggart to the United States senate because I want to ae® an honest man in the seat of Merton and Hendricks, a man of sound judgment, keen insight, and business ability of a high order. "Mr. Taggart not only has the faculty of grasping quickly and clearly the salient features of a given situation, but he also knows how to mak® others see it with the same clearness. He is industrious and conscientious, a self-made man with noae of the disagreeable qualities that often characv terlze such. He is true to his frienda , because he is first of all true to hintself; he would despise himself if ho did a mean or dishonorable deed. "An Indianapolis minister to whom I was mentioning some of these atdijjbutes of the Democratic candidate for the senate, said in reply: ‘I agre® with you entirely, >and in addition I want to bear testimony to his social charm; he is one of the most lovable men I ever knew. His family relations are admirable. He is such a man as I like to regard as typical of the genuine American husband and 1 father.’ “Such tributes could be multiplied indefinitely. “The women of Indiana remember with special gratitude Mr. Taggart’n efforts in behalf of the housing law during the session of the 1913 legislature, the final passage of which Jaw was due to his earnest belief in it and his consequent insistence on its being put through.” Goodrich and McCray have agreed that the tax law is.perfect and that it should stand unchanged, but they seem to be the only ones who held this view. Farmers In Benton county hav® lost thousands of dollars throngh Warren T. McCray’s Chicago Board of Trade concern, yet he still insists that he is a friend of the farmer. Senator Watson still Insists that the United States should sign a separate peace with Germany. What a strange contrast that is to his famous “On to Berlin,” speech, delivered after the 1918 election when he wanted the “allies to march to Berlin and say, ‘sign here.’ ”

Republican leaders have long ago found that it was useless to convert a Democrat to their cause this year. Therefore, rendered desperate by the drift awSy from them, they are busily spreading propaganda that you won’t have time to scratch your ticket. You have one minute ii| the booth with a voting machine and three with the Australian ballot, so think it over when you are in there and vote for the best man.