Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1903 — Neither First Nor Best. [ARTICLE]

Neither First Nor Best.

Wm. L. Taylor, of Indianapolis, attorney general of Indiana, is an able lawyer and orator and has been a very useful attorney general. He is now an avowed candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. He will be a formidable competitor before the convention and a strong candidate if nominated. Not the less, it was a piece of nerve on his part that we do not altogether admire, in sending out in plate form through the American Press Association, a “high pressure” two column article about his candidacy, with big headlines declaring himself the ‘‘First in the Field.” He is neither the “First in the Field” nor es we look at it, not the “Best in the Field” either. Both of those distinctions we ascribe to J. F. Hanly, of Lafayette, a man fully as “self made” and of the people as Taylor is, his peer in every way as “a man and a leader of men,” and of too much modesty and good taste to have sent out such an article about himself as this Taylor pronounciamento is '