Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1904 — A Bird in the Hand. [ARTICLE]

A Bird in the Hand.

The Republican candidate for vice president still holds on to bis seat in the United States senate. He and his political associates have good reason to fear that the Democrats will carry the legislature of Indiana along with the electors for president. In that case the Democrats would elect two senators from Indiana should Candidate Fairbanks resign, as the term of Senator Bevertdge will expire on the 4th of next March. If Senator Fairbanks had the confidence which he pretends in regard to Indiana he would have resigned his seat long ago. But with him a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.—Philadelphia Record.

Carl Schujz, the noted German independent, has written an interesting letter to the Parker Independent Club of New York, in which he points out the dangers that confront the country and will be accentuated if Roosevelt is elected. Speaking of the necessity of curbing the trusts by withdrawing protection from them, as suggested by the late Senator Sherman of Ohio, he says: “When President Roosevelt publicly professed similar'sentiments a significant spectacle presented itself. At once, as the newspapers elaborately reported, political magnates, champions of the high-protective system, swooped down upon .him, as was generally believed, to convinco him of the politically and otherwise perilous character of such a heresy. Whether the stories told were true or not, certain it is that President Roosevelt has become a convert to protectionism of the highest kind, “standing pat” on the tariff as it is, to be revised only “by its friends.” The surrender is complete, and this surrender has led Mr. Roosevelt to abandon —no, not only to abandon, but positively to oppose and denounce —the policy which of all policies proposed would be surest to hurt the trusts in their really vulnerable point. And he covers this surrender with an argument which, I regret to say, looks like a subterfuge."

Senator Beveridge has been unable to redeem his promise to bring a great number <of speakers of national fame into Indiana during this campaign. The Senator handed out a list before the campaign opened which he said represented men who had promised to speak in Indiana. It now appears that the National Republican committee is rushing all these great lights to New York in the hope of saving that state for Roosevelt There seems to be little doubt that the committee regards both Indiana and New York as lost to the party unless superhuman efTort is made and. as New York is the more important state on account of its larger electoral vote, effort is being concentrated there..