Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1910 — POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS [ARTICLE]

POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS

8® far a* known ths date for Mr. Bryan’s Indiana speech has not been atmonneed. Mysterious delay some* where. Let’s have the Bryan date. Joseph Folk was right when he told Indiana Democrats that their gravest danger lay in the drift from the Democratic party as now controlled, into the Republican party. r— What did Colonel Bryan say to Colonel Watterson about “Harmon and Harmony"? The two men met at Evansville, Ind. Will the Democratic publicity bureau tell an anxious public what Colonel Bryan said to Colonel Watterson? R. K. Bedgood, of Lafayette, Republican candidate for joint representative in Tippecanoe and Montgomery counties, is a strong friend of Senator Beveridge. He says he finds the people are for Senator Beveridge, and are determined that he shall be returned to Washington. Samuel Gompers is a pretty plain talker. He says: “If I come to Indiana to speak in this campaign, it will not be under the auspices of. any pollti. cal party.” Th Democratic manager who announced Mr. Gompers’s name as one of the party’s stellar orators, is still rubbing the bump where Mr. Gompers’s wallop landed.

Lew Ellingham, Democratic candidate for secretary of state, says that if labor men continue their fight against him, he will “fight back.” It is pretty well understood that labor men will carry their campaign against all their enemies right up to the polls and there give it all the force they are able to give it. Mr. Ellingham’s boast Of being ready to “fight back” it not expected to intimidate the men who are on his political trail at this time. Democratic managers of the Parker fiasco campaign of 1904 abused Theodore Roosevelt and made his personality the issue. Their folly was pretty well proved by the 2,600,000 plurality that rolled up for Teddy. It is unbelievable that these same Parker Democrats would repeat In 1910 the unutterable fdlly of 1904. Yet we have Stokes Jackson, Democratic state chairman, attacking Roosevelt on the assumption that someone, somewhere, has “discredited” the former president. Mr. Jackson apparently does not recall the 94,000 plurality Indiana gave to Rooseveltlsm. Mr. Jackson seemingly ignores the fact that Rooseveltism is a large issue of the year in Indiana. The sudden arrival of Thomas Taggart in Indianapolis Thursday was due to the fact that the educational system of Indiana demanded his presence. Five hundred thousand school children and their pleading parents, with an army of educators, were holding out their hands to Mr. Taggart, appealing to him for help. So Mr. Taggart eame back to Indiana to select for the children, their parents and for the educators of Indiana a candidate for superintendent of public instruction to fill a vacancy on the Democratic ticket. It is painful to think what might have happened to the schools of Indiana if Mr. Taggart had remained in the east instead of hurrying back to do his duty as mentor of the state’s great educational system.