Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1904 — Prominent Democrat Bolts. [ARTICLE]

Prominent Democrat Bolts.

W. S. Armstrong, former mayor and postmaster of Kokomo, has created a sensation in political circles there by deserting the Democratic party and pronouncing for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. For more than forty years Mr. Armstrong has been the recognized leader of Howard county Democracy. He will take the stump for the Republican ticket. Scores of other Democrats there will vote the Republican ticket this fall. In a public statement Mr. Armstrong said: “Parker is tied to Wall street and the trusts and is against the masses. No true Demcrat can vote for such a man."