The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-03-30
Congressman At District
Convention Promises to
Defend His Legislative Ca
reer Before Delegates.
NEW YORK TELEGRAPH
ASSAILS PEACE PLAN
Editorially Asserts Gray's
Fight Will Be Battle of
WOrds-Pokes Fun At the
HOOsier State.

Representative Gray arrived in Rich
mond from Washington yesterday and
after a short visit with friends here,
left for his home in Connersville
Tomorrow he will be nominated for
a third term at the Democratic district
convention, to be held at Cambridge
City. Mr.. Gray will attend the con-
vention and will deliver an address de-
Tending his congressional record and
replying to his critics, who have been
busy the last few months, referring to
him as a 'grandstand player" bolter
of party caucuSeS, a lukewarm sup
porter of President Wilson and other
things of similarly unkind nature.
The congressman is expected to flay
his critics alive and point to his rec
ord with pride" Democratic leaders
from all over the district will attend
the convention.
Points in His Defense.
Mr.. Gray will show he has always
been in complete harmony with the
Wilson policies; he will show he has
been loyal to his party and he will de-
vote considerable attention to that
petition of the Richmond Trades coun-
Gil for his support of a two O-battleshipS-
a-year' program, which he had been
opposing, and he will show that Presi-
dent Gompers of the American Fedora
tion of Labor is not in sympathy with
such a program said Charles Beck,
postmaster-elect of Richmond and one
of Mr.. Gray's closest friends and most
trusted political lieutenants.
A prominent Richmond Democrat
was today in receipt of an editorial ap-
pearing in the New York Morning
Telegraph which refers to Mr.. Gray's
address in the house last week prais-
ing Secretary Bryan's peace policy.
The Telegraph mockingly accuses all
HOosiers of being towards. 1t reads
as follows:
The only war that Representative
Gray of Indiana will fight in will be a
battle of words. He and his beloved
Bryan are wonders when it comes to
stringing words together and assail-
ing ideas-which cannot fight back.
In another effort to show off. Gray ad-
dressed the House, Wednesday and
said that he would, under certain con
ditions, vote for war with Mexico.
"Let those who favor it," he said,
fight in the front ranks. and when
they are killed, then have their sons
take their places. After the Mexicans
slaughter them, newspaper men must
be used to fill up the breach"
Assais Gray.
Gray is a fitting representative of
the HOOSier State. which, as has been
pointed out before, was settled bv
men who were scared, who were afraid
to go further west. Many years ago it
was discovered that Illinois, with the
lake on the north and the Mississippi
on the west. was a remarkab bly, fertile
section with good climate, coal in
places, timber along the streams. an
Ideal place for farmers. Then thous-
ands Of men in the Eastern States and
IN Kentucky and Virginia loaded wag-
Ons, gathered their families together
and marched for the Prairie State.
when they reached Indiana they
heard stories of terrible Indian troci-
ties; it was said the red men would
kill all settlers who came to that
blessed land on the left bank of the
Mississippi. The brave men loaded
their muskets, laid in good store of
powder and lead and gallantly march
ed into Illinois and possessed the land.
The ones who were afraid unloaded
their wagons and settled down in Ind
lana and have shaken from fever and
ague ever since. Mr.. Gray was born
in Fayette County, Ind. in 1864 His
ancestors, perhaps, settled in Indiana
about the time the great Indian chief,
Black Hawk, was fighting his battles
with the white settlers"