Indianapolis (IN) News, March 11, 1904, p.15. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. .The Republicans are for Roosevelt for president and Democrats say he, Roosevelt, is a better Democrat than Cleveland. For governor, the Republicans favor William L. Taylor, and for Congress, they are for Anderson Percifield, good and strong, and express the hope that Percifield will come nearer carrying Brown County and the fourth district than any Republican candidate ever nominated. Mr. Percifield is a native of Brown County and is a self-made man having obtained his education by hard study in the log schoolhouses of Brown County and in the State University. He has a strong following in Brown County, and since he left the Democratic Party a few years ago, he has, by his influence among Democrats, succeeded in cutting down the Democratic majority. The old Democratic leaders of Brown County have passed away. W. G. Watson, Josh Metheny, Thomas J. Taggart, Samuel Webber and others have crossed the river. Their successors may be able to tread in the footsteps of their preceptors, but to date the Republicans seem to have profited by the change in Democratic leaders. The Republicans are still under the lead of the old veterans, Joseph Young, Richard Phillips, George C. Barrick and the later recruits-George W. Allison, Anderson Percifield and James M. Yoder, county chairman, the machinery being in the hands of the juveniles but apparently judiciously directed. The Prohibition leaders are F. P. Taggart, T. D. Calvin and George N. Turner. Brown County will be a red-hot political community this year.