Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1914 — Circulars Opposing New Constitution Are Passed. [ARTICLE]

Circulars Opposing New Constitution Are Passed.

Circulars were passed in Rensselaer Saturday opposing the new constitution for Indiana. This proposition is to be voted upon at the election. All three parties declared for it* in their state platforms. It should carry. The interests behind the effort to defeat it are the sinister interests of graft and corruption. The ministerial associations are for a new constitution. i ~ . The good citizens league is for a new constitution. The anti-saloon league is for a ne wconstitution.

Every active, wide-awake organization that has public welfare* at heart is; in favor of a new constitution. The breweries, the bosses, the grafters are against it They are getting out a lot of literature that tries to “frighten readers about the expense and misrepresents the things that are to enter into a new constitution. These should not- influence any person from this non-partisan opportunity to vote for a greater Indiana, a more progressive constitution, a reform in taxation and an opportunity to secure wholesale legislation that can never be passed when men are sent to the legislature to represent parties and not the welfare of their constituents. Let of us be partisans now. Let us face the future with a desire to contribute to its greatness. Let us be progressive in practice and not reactionary. Vote for the new constitution. It will give an opportunity to prevent double taxation .by taxing property and mortgages both. It will give an opportunity to find out if the great majority of the people of the state are not in favor of state wide prohibition. It will make it possible to pass laws that are needed but not in tune with a worn out constitution. It will mean that we can elect our best and most trusted citizens to draft a new constitution and that we can pass judgment on it at the polls. It will be a blow to corruption, should eliminate a lot of political ■* graft, establish system where chaos runs rampant, take the saloon out of politics and off the map, get rid of bootlegging, correct the shameful law that permits the sale of whiskey_by the drugstores, and result in a simplification of our law*.

It ma/mean the adoption of some things that we think at this time we do not favor, but it will, at least* make Indiana a state of the twentieth century and not of the nineteenth. Vote “Yes” on the new constitution.

Ask any person who gives you a circular against the proposition why they are opposed to it. Find out who the people are who are having the circulars passed. The fact is that the interests that are objecting to the new constitution are unable to get the support of the newspapers. Vote “Yes” with all your might and advise’your friends to do the same thiilg.