Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 256, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1912 — CHANGED THEIR TACTICS. [ARTICLE]

CHANGED THEIR TACTICS.

At first the Indiana Democrats thought that a passive campaign effort would win for them. Then, a little later, it was found that an aggressive fight would have to be made. But for some weeks the party, through its speakers has been on the defensive. Mr. Ralston was the first to assume the defensive, and he has heen strenuously at it ever since. He has defended the Democratic party in the State against the charges of boss domination, and he has defended himself from the charge of machine control. He has, time and again, sought to amend the State platform, and he has sought to defend the present State administration from the various attacks that have been made upon it. The other speakers, including Governor Marshall, Senator Shively and Senator Kern, have followed practically the same course, the Governor waxing particularly strong in his defense of the Marshall administration.