Decatur Democrat, Volume 51, Number 45, Decatur, Adams County, 19 November 1908 — Page 4

THE DEMOCRAT ■ VEKYTHUBBDAY MOkNING BY LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Publisher. —uj 11 ~ . «I.aOPBR YEAR IN ADVANCE. K«t sred at the poutoffice at Decatur.lndiana as seoond-cltu>s mail matter. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ADAMS CO. READING THE ELECTION RETURNS Republican political newspapers are already sick and tired of county local option —although the law has not been tested. Their early sea sickness comes from the defeat of their partyin the state, and their actions now should indicate for all time to come, tbeir insincerity for temperance. They wanted to win an election, and failing in that, they have no further use for church and temperance in politics. Republican newspapers are advocating the repeal of the county option law, and Republican politicians, even in Decatur, are indicating that they would prefer their's wet. Such pretential reform is the worst sort of reform. We note that some Democratic newspapers have fallen under the spell, and iu their eagerness to best serve their party, they, too, advocate the repeal of county option. They take the election returns as an index to the thoughts of the people as being opposed to county option and in favor of township and ward option. Were there no local option law on the statute books, this might be true. But there is such a law. It deserves a trial, free from political or personal prejudices, and it Is time enough to repeal it after it has proven unpopular with the people. In our minds the result of the election is not so much an endorsement of township and ward local option, as it was the registering of people's belief in and regard for the independent Thomas R. Marshall, and their lack of confidence in James E. Watson. More important even than this, the election returns gave emphatic disapproval to the wholesale extravagance that has marked the administration of the affairs of state. The people disapprove of the studied methods of abstracting money from the state treasury without putting any in. They disapprove of a Chautauqua governor and his forty thousand dollar special session. There is many things that tell the story of a Democratic governor and legislature, and the least of them is local option. But all this indicates that with victory there also comes responsibility, and we have no doubt but that the Democrats will meet this responsibility and solve the problem in the right way. President Roosevelt told a body of high school students, whose athletic exercises he was overlooking, that tiey must always "play fair.” It was good advice, but is the president sure that in his haste he always follows it? —Muncie Star. The announcement that the Hon. T. Taggart is not to be considered in the senatorial running:, slightly clears the atmosphere, and will necessitate a close corporation to defeat the aspirations of John Worth Kern. There are some mighty clean, capable and bright young Democrats on the job, and none of them measures up to the high standard of proficiency better than does the Hon. Edward G. Hoffman, of Fort Wayne. The announcement by Mr. Taggart that his place is in the organization of his pa:ty and not in the as a United States senator, does full justice to the high character and good judgment of Indiana’s most accomplished pclltical diplomat. Mr. Taggart ig right His place is in the organization, and we do not mind saying that it takes a really smart man to always know his place. Mr. Taggart has rendered valuable service, and as one of the rank and file, a leader in its organization, he can and will render a still greater »erViM

THE DEMOCRATS NOT PLEDGED TO REPEAL Any Democrat, Republican or Prohibitionist who new contends that the legislature is justified in the repeal of the county option law, forgets the late political history of the campaign. They forget the Hanly special legislative session; they forget the passage of the very law of which they now sanction repeal; they forget its passage by a Republican legislature; they forget that after its passage both Democrats and Republicans finished the campaign makin broad the statement that local option was settled, and by reason of that settlement it was no longer an issue in the campaign. When these facts are recalled, it will be hard to justify any effort of repeal. Above all other arguments, however, against the repeal of the law, is the fact that the law has not been tried and its merits are as yet unknown. It cost forty thousand dollars to get that law on our statute books, and while the cost was extravagant, yet it is worthy of a fair and impartial test. While the Democrats pinned their faith to a platform declaration favorable to a township and ward local option law, yet when that wag done no law covered this much discussed point. The Democrats did not agree to repeal a law in order to give expression to their particular brand of local option. And the people now do not expect any laws repealed touching upon the regulation or extermination of the saloon. Be the law what it may, good, bad or indifferent, it is a Republican law and the Republicans will have to stand sponsor for It. It is not on the card that the Democrats should help pull Republican chestnuts out of the fire. The Democrats should play good politics, and good politics does not mean the repeal of the county local option law at this particular time. Hon Frank Herring, of South Bend, is the latest aspirant for United States senator. Every day apparently brings out a new one. Now that the tariff is to be revised by its friends, no fear is expressed that the beneficiaries of the tariff will be hurt. Revision in the eyes of those who have benefitted at the expense of the government, means no revision. In so far as the Democrats in the coming session of the legislature is concerned, economy and retrenchment should be their guiding star. They have a fertile field to work in. Extra clerks, doorkeepers and commissions should be no allurement to Democratic legislators. They should show the people that Democratic simplicity and efficiency are one and the same. Five Democratic governors-elect will be invited to address the Iroquois club at Chicago, March 15th, 1909. They are from the states Ohio, Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska and North Dakota. That will be the first opportunity the people will have of comparing the man -from Indiana with the other gentlemen. Johnson and Harmon have been in the public eye for several years, but Marshall is a newcomer and Democrats through out the nation are anxious to get a Pne on him. His friends here have no doubt at all that he will get to them when the time comas. —Columbia City Post. Wall street reports stocks as advancing with the general prosperity, Judge Grosscup’s refusal to grant a • re-hearing in the Standard Oil case sent that stock booming, and others 11 rose sympathetically. These are times I of danger to small investors with 1 speculative tendency. The manipu- - lators of the stock market are invit- - ing lambs with most alluring voices, s but if they go they are sure to be I shorn. If any one has money to int j vest, he should consult a conservative, . ( reliable banker with whom he is ac- ■ quainted. He may not get so great , an income as the sharpers promise, i but he will receive more than he will ■ get from them in the end.—South Bend Time*.

THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY While it is true that the Democratic pary failed to elect that greatest of all Americans to the office cf president, yet there is no reason why the party should be cast down and not see in the result a glorious future. Many substantial gains were made throughout the country and demonstrates that there remains in the party that great vitality that has caused it to withstand all the onslaughts that have been made upon it and ever ready to do battle for the masses. It is a fact that after all is said and done the vitality of a party can be better measured in defeat than in victory. The Democratic party has fully demonstrated that it can breast defeat with a bravery that never marked any other party in the history of the country. The campaign just closed did much to gather the stranded ends of the party and cement them into a fabric that can and will withstand the trials of the future. In 1912 the party will present to the public and the enemy a front so united that all the hosts of evil will not be able to stand against it. The candidate four years hence will not have any part or parcel of the party arrayed against him. It will be a united party indeed that will face the issues of that year. The administration cf President Taft will be utterly unable to free Itself from the selfish interests that have fastened themselves upon the Republican party. These interests are utterly opposed to the common people and in four years they will have become so arrogant that the common people will fully realize that nothing can be hoped for from the Republicans no matter how earnestly some of the workers may desire a different condition. The opportunity for good work within the cming four years. Unity of purpose will do much to further solidify the party. And the independent voter will be with the party as a unit next time. The forces that will be arrayed against arrogant greed will be Invincible. The people will rule in the end, a truth that should make more earnest and brave every Democrat in the whole broad land. —Muncie Press. Even the Indianapolis Star is repentant: "The things that turned the tide was Mr. Marshall’s irreproachable and amiable personality. There is an element of justice and right in this result that should give heart to every man who is trying to lead a life of rectitude and honor. It shows that devotion to duty and to the higher ideals cf life will build up for a man a repuation and a good name among his fellow men that the vicissitudes and mutations of politics cannot take away.” Republican papers say that 500,000 idle men will be re-employed in this country by the first day of January. With eggs selling at 30 cents a dozen, butter nt 26 cents a pound, beefsteak at 12 and 15 cents, potatoes at 75 cents a bushel, coal and wood a little higher than ever and all kinds of necessaries way up, it is indeed a goed thing that the laboring men, or a portion of them, are to get work in the near future. Even the fellow who has a fairly good jeb finds it quite a proposition to make ends meet, especially during the winter season, at prevailing prices.—Columbia City PostJames P. Goodrich is not a candidate for re-election as chairman of the Republican state committee, and may be succeeded by ex-governor Winfield T. Durbin. With Durbin as state chairman and Senator Beveridge the big buck in the state, the Republican party in Indiana is likely to retrograde and become more friendly again to the liberal elements. — Berne Witness. Think of Jim uoanch keeping the Republican party sober. And then tc think, too, we are going to lose him How we will miss his long and pious countenance and his beautiful trib utee of praise to the Lord and the I Republican party.

The advertising season jis here, and it's the wise merchant who knows it The Democratic majority in the leg- ; islature on jcint ballot is fourteen, a healthy sign that Indiana is slowly but surely coming into her own. Now since the president has solved j the religious question, he has taken I up the cause of labor, and will make them happy. What will we ever do without a strenuous president? It may be that democratic state chairman, Stokes Jackson, figures that it will be such a long time before the democrats get another chance at the state offices that they had better steal what they did not elect while they have an opportunity.—Columbia City Com-mercial-Mall. The Commercial-Mail handles the subject with evident familiarity. Any time the Democrats can beat the Republicans of Indiana is stealing, it will be colder than today—and it's not hot enough to melt molasses by any means. According to the CommercialMail it is religiously proper for Republicans to stuff the ballot box and falsify returns but it is stealing on the part of the Democrats to prove it on them. Mr. Bryan's post-election statement is a frank and manly declaration that shows a soul superior even to disappointment of the greatest and most honorable ambition any human being can cherish and pursue. There is no Uace of bitterness and none of regret save that he believes the triumph of the principles upon which the democratic party fought its last great battle would have been better for the republic. What he says of the influence the democratic campaign will have on the policies of government and the sentiment of the people is to the last word true. While it is not for the democratic party to carry forward seme of these great principles of justice, the democratic party has forced them to the front and the triumphant party cannot ignore them. Os Mr. Bryan it may simply be said that though a thrice defeated candidate fo r the presidency he i s today one of the most powerful forces for good in the country. Some of the most violent of his political opponents will freely concede at least that much as true of him. As no other man has done, he has stirred the moral sense of the people as it bears upon our political life and Institutions. Os Mr. Bryan s future none of his friends need have misgivings, for he himself has none. Whether his party shall eve r call him again to hoH aloft its colors is at present a matter of no moment. He will have a place in history honorable and secure. No man can hold in devoted and affectionate allegiance a personal following of six or seven millions of freemen during a dozen years of adverse political warfare and leave a perishable fame. —Fort Wayne Sentinel. Certain republican fcoliticians attempted during the past campaign to tell those td whom they talked that the tariff did not affect the individual, and that the steel trust, if it hurt anybody, merely robbed another trust This was supposed to indicate that while the republicans endorsed the tariff because it protected American labor, they also befriended it be cause it enabled one corporation to rob another. The average man believes that when he pays the freight on an article hauled over steel rails which the tariff makes very expensive he is helping to pay the extra tax to the steel trust He knows that when he goes to buy wire nails he is paying a part cf that $3.50 tribute the 'ariff enables a steel magnate to filch from the pockets of the consumer. The republican revisionist wants io revise the tariff so as to guarantee to ’he trust a “reasonable profit;” the democratic revisionist believes in revising the tariff so as to guarantee to the consumer a reasonable price. The twelfth district and ten other Indiana districts have the latter sort lof men and that very fact indicates what the people of the state are demanding.—Columbia City Post

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