Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1908 — REPUBLICANS; VISIT RENSSELAER THURSDAY [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS; VISIT RENSSELAER THURSDAY

Republican Day of the Home-Coming Should Attract to Hear the Speakers.

Republicans from all over the county are urged to get out Thursday and hear the political Issues discussed. Hon. J. K. Gowdy, formerly of Jasper county and a well known politician, will be here and he wants to meet all of his old Jasper and Newton county Acquaintances, irrespective of politics. Publicly Mr. Gowdy is best known because he served for a long time as consul general to Paris, and was one of the gove nment’s most distinguished diplomats. But he has not let the honors he

has received spoil him and to his old friends and his thousands of acquaintances he is still “Jack” Gowdyj sometimes Captain Jack and sometimes Uncle Jack, but always Jack. . The speaker of the day will ba Hon. Frank B. Posey, of Evansville, and he is thoroughly alive to the issues of the day, both national and state, and it is hoped will be heard by a mammoth crowd of voters. The speaking will be held in the court house yard, the weather being favorable.