Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1911 — Marshall Gives It Out Straight; He’d Like to Be the President. [ARTICLE]

Marshall Gives It Out Straight; He’d Like to Be the President.

Governor Marshall has come out in “J’ - . J . the open as a candidate for the democratlc nomination for president of the United States. Three years ago he was a small lawyer, tactically un beard of outside of his own and a few surrounding counties. He was chosen as the democratic nominee for governor by the fortunes of politics and was elected because the republican candidate was running on a temperance platform. He has been governor a little over two years and has madei himself believe that he is a “big” man. As to whether he has fooled the people as well as himself in this respect there is some doubt. In Indiana it is probable that Tom Marshall stands much less of an idol than he was before his election. He has done nothing to indicate statesmanship. He has forgotten his political promises about economy; he has signed bills that give him appointive power that makes a machine head of the governor’s office; he has deceived the temperance people of the state by participating in a scheme to reinstate saloons in many counties of the state and by advocating and signing a measure that throttles, the temperance people In any effort to see that the temperance laws are enforced. Marshall will prove a very poor governor and his presidential bee looks a great deal like a huge*joke, hardly worth front page discussion in Indianapolis newspapers.