Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 237, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1914 — TAGGART GANG AIDS BULL MOOSE BOSSES [ARTICLE]

TAGGART GANG AIDS BULL MOOSE BOSSES

Activities ts Brewery Machine Workers On Knowledge ttiat ; We far Beveridge Is | Half Vote tor Fairbanksr. Taggart Ticket. Indianapolis Ind, SqpL for—The Democratto-Bsffi Mopse-bLpartlsan machine alliance continues active in its efforts to drum up crowds for the Beveridge meetings. The Democratic machine is finding that sentiment against their ticket Is so strong that it is almost Impossible for them to arouse Interest among the rank and file of their party and for this reason they have decided to do everything In their power to fool enough voters into supporting the Beveridge lest cause to prevent the election of the Republican state ticket The Crawford Fairbanks-Tom Taggart outfit Is going pretty strong in its effort to encourage the Bull Moose Bosses. One of the bondsmen of Don M. Roberts, notorious mayor of Terre Haute and a leading figure in the Democratic machine organization, was one of the vice-presidents for the Roosevelt meeting held In Indianapolis; last week. All during the recent trial of Roberts on charges of election corruption Deming wore'a white badge on which were the following words "I Am With Roberts.” In a number of Indiana towns and villages bands have been engaged and paid for by the Democratic machine organization to play at Beveridge meetings. In more thart one place the organization Democrats were discourI aged over the small size of the Beveridge meetings. “We wasted money in 'hiring a band for Beveridge meetings” said one of the leading Democrats 1° one of the county seats. *iThe attendance was surprlqWsiy small. They’ll ’have to get up more steam than that or we will spend no more money on them." Down in Martin county the Taggart machine crowd has done everything In its power to keep a semblance of life in the Beveridge party, using money and every other agency that they could employ. In Jennings county the Democratic machine leaders and the Bull Moose bosses are working In harmony. This Is true of every 'Other county In Indiana. The Democratic leaders know that ’there Is not a chance in a million for them to elect their handpicked ticket ■unless they can persuade a few thousand voters to support the Beveridge party. That is why they are moving heaven and earth to provide audiences for Beveridge. “Time was,” observed a local Democrat who is supporting the Republican ticket this year "When voters went to a Beveridge meeting to hear what he might have to say. Now they go to see If anyone else is there."