Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1912 — Record Belies Statement. [ARTICLE]

Record Belies Statement.

We are told by candidates professing to be turning state’s evidence and asking preferment at the hands of the people as the price of their alleged confession of crimes against the people, that the Republican party in Indiana has been the servant of corporations. The record belies that statement. It was no corporation controlled party that passed in Indiana the two-cent fare law. It was no cor-poration-controlled party that passed the county local option law. It was no tobacco trust-controlled party that passed the anti-cigarette law. It was no corporation controlled party that during the twelve years of administration doubled the valuations of common carriers for the purpose of taxation in the state of Indiana. It was no cor-poration-controlled party that enacted the railway commission law, and scores of other laws which give the lie to the authors of this defamation. —Winfield T. Durbin, Republican candidate for Governor of Indiana. In spite of all the Democratic efforts to stop it prosperity is climbing the grade with a double-header and a push engine. Give it but half a chance and it may once more make a recordbreaking run.