Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — HOW IT WORKS IN BENTON. [ARTICLE]

HOW IT WORKS IN BENTON.

The democrats of Newton county reorganized last Saturday by electing H. L. Sammons, chairman, Geo. W. Gauthier, secretary and Wm. Dowling treasurer. All are of Kentland.

The late republican convention in Barkley township is not ratered to with much pride by republicans of that bailiwick. It is said that a few wagon loads of “voters” were brought in from Gillam township to help carry the day and that "voters” were also imported from Rensselaer and Union, with the result that all decent republicans are utterly disgusted the way things were run.

Opponents of J. Frank Hanly say that, if nominated and elected governor, he will use the office as a stepping stone to the U. S. Senate for which he has had such a deep yearning for many years. Regarding this feeling among the republicans the Fowler Republican says: “It would be perfectly fair and upright if our friend Frank Hanly would make it publicly known that if he becomes governor of Indiana that he will serve four years as governor and not in the meantime pop up as a candidate for the United States Senate.”

One of the good old mothers and grandmothers of Knox, an earnest democratic partisan, made a suggestion a few days ago that will certainly strike the average individual as peculiarly appropriate and fitting. In conversation with one of her sons she asked who is likely to be the republican candidate for vice president. He replied that it is yet uncertain, although the chances are that it will be Senator Fairbanks of Indiana. “Well,” replied the old lady, "I should think they would nominate Buffalo Bill.”—Starke County Democrat.

The suggestion is a very good one, but perhaps “Roosy” feels that he possesses enough strenuousness for both places, and it might not be a bad idea to tickle bis other weakness a little by giving him the Hon. Joseph F. Smith of Utah for a running mate, Smith acknowledges that he is the father of some 42 children.

Attorney Will Isham, who has been acting as special judge in the Fountain circuit court, was in Attica last Friday night enroute to his home in Fowler.

Mr. Isham is one of the brightest attorneys of the Benton county bar and is a very pleasant conversationalist. Among other things he said to a Ledger representative: “Fowler has no saloons. It was predicted that if the saloons were shut out of Fowler it would ruin the town as a business center, but on the contrary it has helped in a substantial way. Women now have money to spend that never had money before. There is a class of laborers around Fowler who make from $2 to $3 a day and when there was saloons in the town three-fifths of their money went over the bar. Now it is different. They do not spend one dollar for booze where they spent five before. Consequently the merchants get what formerly went to the saloons, and collections are much easier.

Although I did not sign the remonstrance myself lam glad to see the change as are all of the better class of people of the town.”—Attica Ledger.