Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1910 — How John W. Kern Will Economize. [ARTICLE]

How John W. Kern Will Economize.

John W. Kern, in throwing out his bait for the votes o? old soldiers in Rensselaer, said that he would discharge 10,000 governmeut clerks and discontinue the building of a couple of battle ships and take the money ar.d pay the .dollar-a-day pensions with it. The same afternoon at North Judson he said he would discharge 10,000 government clerks and discontinue the building of battleships and take the money to dredge the swamps of Indiana. Evidently Mr. Kern intends ta-dis-charge all the government clerks, to discontinue the navy and the army and to discontinue the tariff and to spend the mo.iey thus saved to do the things that he thinks are needed In each special locality. Here he will pay the pensions to the old soldiers, at North Judson he will dredge the swamps, at Evansville he will lower the Ohio river channel and build a dike to protect the lands from overflowing. He will spend all the revenue of the government several times, just to do the things the people of certain localities need done. Mr. Kern probably does not figure that the people of these 'different localities are keeping tab on him. But it is hard to fool the people these days. John should not doublecross himself.