Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 38, DeMotte, Jasper County, 20 August 1948 — Senators And Halleck Mapping State Campaign [ARTICLE]

Senators And Halleck Mapping State Campaign

Indiana's Republican congressional leaders yesterday pledged to campaign vigorously for the G.O.P. state as well as the national ticket and then took a collective potshot at the Truman administration. Here to attend session of the American Legion state convention, United States Senators Homer E. Capehart and William E. Jenner and house MajorityLeader Charles A. Halleck conferred with state G.O.P. leaders. They told Indiana G.O.P. Gov-ernor-nominee Hobart Creighton and Lieutenant Governor Rue J. Alexander that their work in keypositions in the Dewey-Warren national campaign will not interfere with their efforts in state campaign. “I am going to make a speech for the state ticket in etery county in the Second District/’ Halleck, who was instrumental in throwing Indiana’s support to Dewey in the Republican national convention, declared. Jenner recently named bead of the national GOP speakers bureau, asserted that “the old Republican pilosophy of making a good showing in the state as well as thg nation will prevail. Said Senator Capehart: T am going to make every' speech I possibly can in behalf of the state ticket and I hope to spend a majority of my campaign time in Indiana.” Capehart is chairman of the Senate Republican campaign committee. Creighton said state GOP headquarters already was co-operat-ing “100 per cent” with the national GOP delegation, slating congressmen and senators for campaign speaking assignments and circulating leaflets and pamphlets boosting both the state and national tickets. The conference of G.O.P. leaders was held in state Republican headquarters in the Claypool Hotel between sessions of the Legion convention.