Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1912 — GOVERNOR MARSHALL GIVES FORECAST OF MESSAGE [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR MARSHALL GIVES FORECAST OF MESSAGE

Will Advocate Several Measures That He Thinks Will Be to the Interest ol People. Governor Mashall largely forecasted his forthcoming message to the legislature Monday afternoon in a speech which he made at the meeting of democratic members of the legislature. He recommended: A law extending the jurisdiction of the railroad commission so as to include all public utilities. In other words, he favors a public utilities commission 1 ; but he wants the railroad commission to be given the power instead of creating a new commission. A workmen’s compensation law He said other states have such a law and that Indiana ought to have one. He said the ultimate consumer has to supply all of the money to pay damages for injuries to workmen, anyhow, because employers pay liability insurance companies to carry their accident insurance. A law to create a state woVkhouse to take the place of the county jail. He recommended that the workhouse be located at a point where the prisoners could work on roads and road material. A law ’making it impossible to offer bonds of a sale until after they have been ? submitted to a rigid examination's to the property on which they are based. He said rumors were afloat now that a railroad is planning to issue bonds with which to buy all of the coal, land in Indiana, and he said that *if this was attempted while he was governor the railroad would have a lawsuit on its hands. A law to prevent the sale of “blue sky.” All stocks and securities should have real property behind them. These were the principal things which Marshall said he wouU| recommend in his message. He told the democrats -sthat he had been over a large part of the country in the last few months and that he knew what the people wanted. “There is unrest among the American people,” he said, “and if they cannot get what they want from the democratic party they will get it somewhere else. There never wijs a time when there was greater responsibility on a democratic legislature than now rests on this one. “The democratic party rests in your hands. Its salvation is up to vou. If you serve the people you will save th*e ‘party. If you fail you will kill it.” The governor pounded on the subject of the necessity of the democrats making good, now that they have the enormous majority with which to do the work. Governor-elect Ralston also made a speech in which he told the legislators that the party must make good all of its promises. “We made the recent campaign on a state platform, the chief virtue of which was its .brevity,” he said. “Now, we should stand squarely on the platform and carry out every promise it contained. And that does not mean that we cannot go further than the platform. The democratic party was never limited by its platform. The party should go beyond the platform wherever necessary and enact such laws as the people demand and which the party promised to enact.” One of the best speeches of the meeting was made by William P. O’Neill, of Mishawaka, lieutenant-governor-elect. It was short but to the point. He said he would not undertake to tell any member how he should or should not vote on any matter, but that personally he favored a public utilities commission law; a workmen’s compensation law; a new road law that would be fair and just and complete; a complete revision of the state insurance laws; an inheritance tax law and such other t laws as in the light of democratic principles appeared to be wise and needed.