Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Capt, Guthrie needs no introduction to the people of White county. He has been long and favorably known among us, as a teacher in our public schools for a number of years, as County Superintendent of Schools two or three terms, and later as a lawyer of marked ability and a public speaker possessed of unusal logic and eloquence. He is also a fjrominent Odd Fellow and a eading Knight of Pythias, His military title was earned in the late Spanish-American war where he served as captain of Co. 1.1615 t Indiana Vol., under command of Colonel W. T. Durbin, now Governor of Indiana. When this regiment was mustered out of service he returned to Monticello and resumed the practice of law. Capt. Guthrie is in the prime of manhood, and will make a vigorous and aggressive^campaign. If the people favor him with an election he will easily take a leading rank in Indiana’s delegation in congress.—White County Democrat. Those democrats who have entertained a certain admiration for the rugged manliness of which they conceived the President to be possessed, received a severe shock when they heard, or read, the speech which Mr. Roosevelt saw fit to deliver at the National Cemetery at Arlington on Memorial Day. Not content with attempting to vindicate the record of American soldiers in the Philippines, Mr. Roofeevelt took occasion to belittle his dignity and indulge in the cheapest sort of demagogism by referring to the lynchings which have occurred in this country and charging those who condemn torture and other violations of the laws of civilized warfare in the Philippines with condoning lynching at home. Disinterring the “bloody shirt” which he had declared at Charleston was buried for all time, he told his hearers, many of them veterans of the Civil War, that the opponents of imperialism had called Grant “the" butcher” and had referred to them as “Lincoln’s hirelings.” Mr. Roosevelt’s whole speech was calculated to stir up the bitterest kind of sectional feeling and party strife and was one of the most serious violations of good sense and good taste ever perpetrated in a Decoration Day oration. The virtual admission of Secretary Root and General Wood that the latter had spent large sums for the purchase of wines and liquors at the expense of the government and that Secretary Root had authorized General Wood to expend $5,000 per year for liquid and other forms of entertainment, while it is quite in accordance with the autocratic and extravagant methods of the administration, was somewhat startling to the members of Congress and may prove so to the taxpayers of the country. Secretary Hoot also admits the payment of large "sums to General Gomez in order to purchase his influence with the large constituency which he is supposed to lead. The Secretary of War has promised to render to x Congress an itemized statement of General Wood’s expenses but there seems little likelihood that the General will be able to complete his accounts before adjournment, in view of the effect which such a statement would be likely to have on the fall elections. General Wood is making his home and headquarters on board the transport “Kanawha,” which arrangement not only proves an economy to the General but also necessarily delays the rendering of his accounts to the War Department and consequently to Congress. Secretary Root evidently believes that the public will forget all about the rumors of his and Wood’s extravagance—also the cost of the Philippine war, a statement of which he has refused to render until the next session—and that after election the disclosure of the figures will cause no injury to his party. For the legitimate curiosity which Congress is displaying in regard to Wood’s disbursements, the administration has to thank “Subsidy Hanna” whose first threat, to make an exposure because th® President refused to order a new trial for the embezzler Rathbone, served to bring Mr. Roosevelt to terms but not before the newspaper men had gotten on the track of a very racy story, and i their requests for informaiion re-1 suited in the resolutions calling on I Root for the figures.

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