Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — DEMOCRATIC TICKETS. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC TICKETS.

NATIONAL. For Pr/sident, WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN, of Lincoln. Neb. For Vice-President, ADLAI E. STEVENSON, of Bloomington, 111. STATK. For Governor, JOHN W. JCERN, of Innmnapotia. For Lieutenant-Governor, JOHN C. LAWLEK. of Salem. For Secretary of State. ADAM HEIMBERGER, of New Albany. For Auditor of State, JOHN W. MINOR, of Indianapolis. For Treasurer of State. JEROME HERFF. of Peru, ”'" v " For Attorney General, CHAS. P. DRUMMOND, of Plymouth. For Reporter of Supreme Court, HENRY G. YERGIN? of New Castle. For Supt. of Public Instruction, CHAS. A. GREATHOUSE, Mt. Vernon. For State Statistician, EDWARD HORUFF, of Madison. For Judge of Supreme Court. Ist Dist. GEO. L. IJEIN HART, of Bloomington.. For Judge of Supremo Court, 4th Dist, JOSEPH M. ADAIR, pf Colupibla City. t>ib. For Congressman. JOHN ROSS, of Lafayette. For State Senator, LUCIUS STRONG, of Rensselaer. For Representative for Jasper and Lake Counties. JOSEPH A. CLARK, of Lowell. For Prosecuting Attorney, for Jasper and Newton Counties, AUGUSTUS!). BABCOCK, of Goodland. What has the Republican party done to curb trusts? It has had full control of the government for three years and what has it done’? Echo answers, what’? The trial of Jim Howard, for complicity in the murder of Governor Goebel, is now on at Frankfort K. Y. It is thought that Howard fired the fatal shot. Is there such a thing as civilized warfare? Read the accounts from South Africa, from the Philippines and from China and then answer in the affirmative, if you dare. Is there any principle of Republican government that William McKinley has not espoused and then retracted and denied’? If there is, wait a few weeks or months and he will do it.

The Japanese commander in China has complained to General Chaffee that women have committed suicide in consequence of brutal outrages committed on them by the allies and has asked hinvto co-operate in checking these. This is only one of the t\urfe of imperialism. The elections in Maine and Vermon show that practically all those who left the Democratic party in *96 have returned. If they do this elsewhere —and indications arb that they will do it and that many Republicans will also come over—Bryan’s election is a certainty. The Democrats stated the issue which they believe to be paramount. byt what have the Republicans done? One speaker says McKinley is running on his record; another says that free silver is the bedrock of the campaign; a third says that silver is dead as Caesar. Isn’t it about time that the G. O. P. should inform the country which issue it considers most important? The democratic Congressional campaign committee has prepared and sent out a timely bulletin dealing with the suffrage qualifications, imposed on Porto Ricans by the republican Congress and administration. It says: “While a number of states, such as Massachusetts, North Carolina, Connecticut and Louisiana, have proscribed educational qualifications for voters, this republican measure enacted for Porto Rico is the first attempt in the history of our republic to prescribe a property qualification since Thomas Jefferson, the great champion of human rights succeeded in giving to every man, rich and poor alike, the right to exercise his elective franchise as a free American citizen. - Think how many thousands of Porto Ricans, under Spanisn oppression, hare never had an opportunity, either to learn to read and write or to acquire property. These are not under republican rule permitted to vote, yet under Spanish rule they were never denied this right. What, then, must be the natural conclusion? The

trusts, through whose influence'' free trade was denied by Congress to the Porto Ricans have also dictated a property qualification for the voters ,of that unfortunate island. “Of such is imperialism.” \ Poor Beveridge! The republican campaign committee had several hundred thousand copies of his Philippine speech printed at government expense for circulation as a campaign document, but finding that the public on calm second thought had decided that Beveridge was an ass in his “great” speech but the mouthings of a crack-brained idiot, the “speeches” were all consigned to the furnace in the government folding room.