Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1913 — Tom Marshall Pet Theory Given Its Final Quietus. [ARTICLE]

Tom Marshall Pet Theory Given Its Final Quietus.

Indiana once bad a governor named Thomas R. Marshall. He decided that the constitution of the state was not what it should be and determined to give the state a new basic law to be known as the Tom Marshall constitution. The law provided a method of revision but Mr. Marshall rose upon his toes and undertook to disregard thfe law and put ihis pet theory into force in his own way. The courts intervened and decided against the governor. He appealed to the supreme court of the United States. In the meantime he was elected Vice-President. The constitution laid on the shelf until the supreme court reached it in the due course of official business. They took it down from the shelf Monday, gave it the “once over” and relagated It to the scrap heap. , And now we have nothing to remember Tom for except that he reinstated saloons to a great many villages and cities and started the big boom for increased taxation. Tom was a plain lawyer with a reputation limited to three or four counties when discovered and nominated for governor. He has rattled about considerably since his responsibilities increased and we fear he has been boosted far beyond his capacity. !-