Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1904 — Tumultuous Times In Tippecanoe. [ARTICLE]

Tumultuous Times In Tippecanoe.

The Democrats had a H —earst of a time in LaFayette, Friday The county central committee was called together, evidently in the ' learst interest to choose delegates o the state convention. Dan Simms and other Parker men appeared and objected to that method of choosing delegates, and created a tremenduous row by declaring that he had been offered $25,000 for his personal campaign

expenses if he would accept the Democratic nomination for Governor as a Hearst man. He also said that County Chairman Risk was under contract to deliver the Tenth district solid to Hearst,

Such a row was precipitated that the police had to be called in, and ;hey put a stop t • incipient fist fights all over the house On motion of Simms the meeting resolved itself into a mass convention and elected Parker delegates. But when the Parker men left the Hearst men got together and elected another set, favorable to Hearst