Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — OUR CONGRESSMAN. [ARTICLE]

OUR CONGRESSMAN.

Why the Democratic Papers are Seeking to Prevent His Re-Nomination. Logansport Journal. The candidacy of Nelson J. Bozarth, of Porter county, is endorsed by ninety soldiers who sign the following: “Whereas. The Tenth Congressional district has never been*represented in Congress by a private soldier, and “Whereas 4 , the Hon. W. D. Owen has now been in Congress three terms and we believe such honors should be passed around.” This is the awful terms of opposition portrayed by the Pharos [and other democratic papers of the Tenth district], and it is certainly alarming that a gentleman at the other .end of the district should have ninety personal friends. Mr. Bozarth ran for Congress in this district once on the Greenback ticket and was defeated. ■ It speaks well for him that, he now receives the kindly indorsement of ids f iends. Ilis idea however, of passing around "fluT congressional ■>>•urination is not a good one. Ibe Tenth district would not have unv weight in Congress and its tvpi n o-utative would not rernaiu b *ng »-<>• • fgh to get any influence. Ihe th district is stronger to-day io Die Halls of Congress than has any Imliaira district since tin* J *ys of o<>tfax, and the people an* proud of it. The pari* of wisdom is to strengthen that position by the re-nomina-tion' of Hon. W. D. Owen. His electiou will follow. There need be no fear about that. The Hammond Standard says that lie ran 152 votes ahead of the ticket in Porter county and 67 in Lake and that now 500 democrats in Lake county stand ready to endorse his work for them on the Calumet. Every day democratic friends at home speak of their admiration of him and their intention to endorse him at the polls and while disappointments may occasion opposition to his nomitthtion it will not be carried to any dangerous extent. The Journal does not exaggerate when it says (hat he is to-day the strongest Republican in the district by at least a thousand votes and that is the secret of the desperate attempt of the Pharos to prevent his nomination.