Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1908 — ONE DEMOCRAT DECLARES HIMSELF. [ARTICLE]

ONE DEMOCRAT DECLARES HIMSELF.

Over in Muncie, the Democratic candidate for file legislature from Delaware county has notified his party’s committee that if elected he will vote with the Republicans for county local option while maintaining his standing as a Democrat on'other questions. Mr. Higman says he is willing to retire from the ticket if the committee so desire. He wished to give fair notice long before election of what he would do if elected, and that is admirable. The committee is in a piokler Higman is popular and a candidate strong in his constituency,. If elected, he will do as he says. If asked to retire from the running, the effect will be a walkover for the Republicans in Delaware county and in neighboring counties. Higman is no Prohibitionist, but a Democrat. Like thousands of other Democrats in Indiana, he will not wear the brewery collar. We wish we could quote some of our friends on the Pro hlbltion legislative ticket as declaring, like him, that they will vote for county local option, the best temperance measure devised as practicable in this decade.