Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — A REPUBLICAN RECORD. [ARTICLE]

A REPUBLICAN RECORD.

The Republican party came into i power in Indiana in 1895. Its promises for retrenchment and reform had been fair and doubtless some people believed that they would redeem all the promises they had made. But the in- j stinct to prey upon the people' is so deep-rooted in Republicans that* it. cannot be long resisted. This has' been demonstrated particularly in the record the party has made in the leg- j islature. Session by session the bur-: den of .cost has been increased till it; has risen from $99,723.04 in 1895 to j $120,999.71 in 1903, with even a high- j er altitude in 1901. Here is the record ! for the five years in which the party ' has been in control of the legislature: 1895.. 99,723.04 ! 1897 105.817.29 1899.. 114.705.25 1901.. ......... 125.791.94 1903 120,999.71 The feeling that President Roose-| veil is not a safe man for the highest j office in the gift oi the people grows j with each day of the campaign, and it | becomes more and more certain that j the personality of candidates as well as party principles will have much to do with the result in November. Judge Parker is a man of peace, calm, quiet, dignified, conservative and safe, while the president is his opposite in all these essential characteristics of the statesman. The natural tendency of Republican administrations, whether national, state, county or tow'nship. is t’oward extravagance, Since the party went into power at Washington in 1897 there has been a constantly increasing record of expense, and the same is true of the Republican state administration in Indiana since 1895. “The men who object to what they style ‘government by injunction’ lire, as regards the essential principle of government, in hearty sympathy with their remote skin-clad ancestors who lived in caves, fought one another with stone-headed axes, and ate the mammoth and woolly rhinorceros.” —Theodore Roosevelt. The steel trust is shutting down its mills, the textile industries are closing. and the great railroads are constantly reducing the number of men in their employ. But in spite of these conditions the Republicans are preaching prosperity and attribute it to the tariff.