Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 268, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1910 — Both Branches of State Legislature Democratic by Good Majerities. [ARTICLE]

Both Branches of State Legislature Democratic by Good Majerities.

The democrats are in full control of Indiana or will be as soon as the legislature convenes. Both branches of the coming general assembly will be democratic and the majority on joint ballot will be 33, according to the early returns. Senator A. Hal leek, representing the Jasper-Newton-Starke-White district, and Representative John G. Brown, of the JasperWhite district, will be surrounded by demoqrats. Probably one of the first bills introduced at the coming legtgtattfre 'wTTr be for the repeal of the county local option law. Governor Marshall said In speeches during the campaign that he would insist on the substitution of a law providing for ward and township option on the basis of the democratic platform of two years ago. If a law of that kind is passed, Jasper county can probably remain on the list of drys. But if there is a? simple repeal of the county option bill the only manner of defeating the saloons will be py remonstrance. Jasper county went dry in this way before and can probably do so again, but it is sure that an effort will be made tc establish saloons In Rensselaer as soon as the law is repealed. The state will be redtstrlcted for congressional and legislative purposes and It is probable that Jasper coun r y will form some new associations politically. will be made with a view to providing for future democratic advantage. Senator Albert J. Beveridge will be succeeded after the coming session of the national congress by John W. Kern, whose long running for office has at last been rewarded by success. Mr. Kern has many friends who are not believers in his possession of vary great ability and he will probably ra> tle about a good deal In the place so ably filled by Beveridge. It was in 1892 that Indiana had its last drubbing in an election. It wis the same year that the great democratic landslide occurred. It that year that William McKinley was" defeated for congress as a rebuke so: his authorship of the McKipley tariff bill. It was only two years later that William McKinley was elected president of the United States because the public bad found that the measure for which he was at first condemned was a power for good. The present national congress cannot repeal the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill by democratic votes, because the United States Senate will be repul: i< can. It is not improbable, however, that measqres of amending the bill along tariff reduction lines will oe taken up and as the democrats arid insurgent republicans have asked for tariff reductions it is probable that this congress will undertake to satisfy that demand, j, ,