ay C. Smith, a newspaperman, was born in Rutland, Ohio, on January 14, 1868 and received his A.M. from Franklin College, taught school two years in Dearborn County, Indiana. He was the publisher of "Hope" for the Indiana Republican Party, and has been the publisher of the "Seymour Republican" since 1895. Mr. Smith was the business manager for the "Baptist Observer," a member of the Franklin College Board of Directors, member of the Republican State Editorial Association, President of the Baptist State Sunday School Board and a resident of Seymour, Indiana.