Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1908 — Republicans Reorganize in White County. [ARTICLE]

Republicans Reorganize in White County.

In the White county republican reorganization Monday of this week, Ben F. Carr, law partner of Judge T. F. Palmer, was elected chairman to succeed A. K. Bills. It is said to have been quite a thoro anti-8 ills organization, and altho Sills was at first considered a candidate to succeed himself, and later had Representative Curtis D Meeker up as a candidate, he early read the hand writing on the wall and withdrew, and the Carr election was made unanimous.