Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — Peanut Politics Campaign Is Started by the Democrat. [ARTICLE]

Peanut Politics Campaign Is Started by the Democrat.

Continued from first page, ion fail to disclose those people Who are so prone to suspicion. As long as peanut politics can convince voters by such argument or as long as a newspaper publisher labors under the delusion that he is making converts by such methods, the open and above board style of treating a question will not prevail. The Democrat should be honest now with its clientele and inform them who have the “general impression” that fear of disclosures prompted the petition to keep Bader out of the penitentiary, who it was that “intimated that Prosecutor Longwell was threatened with defeat if he pushed the case against Bader”* and who the people are whose motives are always

“open to suspicion.” “General impression,” “intimated” and “suspicion” are certainly peanut politics, but to thinking menthey carry, no argument, and unless Babcock will come out' from the bushes and make himself clear by naming the parties he hints at, his efforts to create a “general impression” are certain to fail. The day of the “bogy man” is past. The present is an era of campaigning in the open. Come out in the spotlight, Babcock, and be tangible just once.