Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 November 1920 — McCRAY SPOKE HERE MONDAY [ARTICLE]

McCRAY SPOKE HERE MONDAY

Large Audience Heard G. O. P. Nominee for Governor. There was a good-sized turnout to the Warren T. McCray speaking at the opera house Monday afternoon, notwithstanding the inclement weather. In introducing Mr. McCray Republican County Chairman Leopold said that the candidate was here to discuss state and national campaign issues and any questions that might be fired at the speaker would be irgnored, or words to that effect. , Evidently it was anticipated that someone would seek a little information on how to get low assessments on prize cattle and personal property, etc., etc., but the speaker was given a respectful hearing, and his attempts to explain various‘matters that have been mentioned during the campaign might have satisfied the blindly partisan Republican voter, but really he didn’t explain anything nor deny the truth of any statement made, except in a general way.

He was followed by Rev. C. L, Harper,, former pastor of the M. E. church here" but at present located at Kentland, who supplied the wings which the candidate modestly admitted he had nicely sprouted. Rev. Harper assailed every derogatory statement made as the basest falsehoods, but no doubt if pinned down would have admitted that he really didn’t know a d— thing about it, only that the candidate was a member of his church, and therefore-was spotless. • ' Harper was followed by a spellbinder from Indianapolis, one of the graduates of the Jim Watson et al spell-binding school, it is presumed, whose “argument”-was in -line with the wibbly-wabbly national platform and candidate.