Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1898 — Indiana’s Pride. [ARTICLE]

Indiana’s Pride.

General Lew Wallace Gives Up His Race for Senator to Take Up Arras Against Spain. Gen. Lew Wallace has notified his friends and supporters in his race for the United States Senate that he will not be a candidate for that office, and that he will enter the army and fight for the Cubans. Several days ago he addressed a letter to President AfcKinley offering his services, and from his subsequent action in withdrawing from the Senatorship race it is assumed that he has been notified by the President that his services will be accepted. He was a Major General of volunteers in the war of the rebellion, and it is believed among his friends that ho will be accorded a high rank in the army now. He is known to have had this step under contemplation some weeks. He says that war is inevitable and that the place for America is at the front and not in the rear. While in the event of peace he would like to represent Indiana in the United States Senate, he could not think of aspiring to such a position while his country is at war.