Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1904 — REMEMBER [ARTICLE]

REMEMBER

Th4t your vote may be necessary to Democratic success. That the election will be held on Tuesday, Nov. 8, and. that you should be at the polls early. That It is your duty as a Democrat to be at the polls find assist in getting out the vote. That< Judge Parker is calm, dignified and learned and that Roosevelt is impetuous, erratic and shallow. That the issue 1b between constitutional government at honpe and abroad and militarism with all its attendant evils. That the Republicans have been driven from every position that they assumed in the opening of the campaign. That Roosevelt has declared that a cowboy is preferable as a companion to a small farmer or a mechanic or a laboring man. That the trusts have forced 7,000 men into idleness in the city of Muncie in an effort to reduce output and maintain high prices. That the administration of Roosevelt in times of peace has cost more than was spent in the same length of time during the war with Spain! That the trusts are contributing to the Republican campaign fund and that they will continue to prey upon the people if Roosevelt is elected. That Charles W.-Fairbanks and Albert J. Beveridge voted' for the ship subsidy bijl which would have taken out of the national treasury. That the Democratic watcher should be a man whose integrity is above question and who is earnest in the discharge of duty and courageous in defense of right. That Governor Durbin has admitted that the payments on the state debt have been made possible through a Democratic tax law and a Democratic sinking fund law. That the Republican*, fey reducing corporate assessments and increasing the assessments on private property, have been pursuing a settled policy to make the tax law odious. That a Republican tax board has reduced the assessments of corporations more than $16,000,000 and increased the assessments on lands and improvements on lands more than $27,000,000. That the Democratic watcher at the polls on the night of the election is entitled to see every ballot and to see that it is recorded by the election clerks for the man for whom it is cast. That the best way to become a “world power” is to set an example of peace and good will toward men and, by thus winning the respect of all nations, make the flag to be loved rather than feared. That despotic government in the Philippines, if encouraged by the American people, will surely lead to despotic government at home, for a people cannot ignore the rights of others and long maintain their own rights against the aggressions of tyranny.

Of course the Republicans would try to ape the Democrats in the features that attended the tour of Indiana by Mr. Bryan, but they are reckoning without their host in one important particular. The outpouring of the people to hear the distinguished citizen of Nebraska was spontaneous; the tribute paid to him was to him and to the eternal principles which he represents. The enthusiasm that will attend Charles W. Fairbanks, if indeed there is enthusiasm at all. will be of the manufactured brand, the trust variety that is made up by hiring railroad trains and taking people without charge to his meetings. Fairbanks never had a genuine crowd in his life. His very presence chills the atmosphere for rods around, and people don’t like to run the risk of neuralgia, rheumatism, bad colds and the like at the beginning of winter. When Senator Beveridge went to Alexandria and addressed the people on the subject of “good” trusts, he ought to nave cast his eye in the direction of he dismantled plant of the Big Four Window Glass Company. The trust bought it and abandoned it, and 200 men were forced into idleness. Or he might have turned his eye toward the plant of the Republic Iron and Steel Company, another “good” trust, that has been idle for nearly a year In order to reduce its product. Possibly some of the 750 men that this trust forced into idleness might testify that it belongs to the Senator’s list of “good,” exceptionally “good” trusts. Governor Durbin s statement, accompanying the admission that the state debt is being paid off with money received from a Democratic tax law, that the Republicans in the legislature voted for the law, indicates that the Republicans are hard-pressed for facts. As a matter of fact, the Republican leaders all opposed the law and the Republicans in the senate and house arrayed themselves against it. A few supported the measure, but the great body of the Republican legislators both spoke against and voted against the bill. It is eminently proper while Mr. Mr. Fairbanks is touring the state as the tail to the Republican presidential kite to recall the fact that he lias been in the United States senate nearly eight years and has proved himself nothing but s follower of the ideas of others. As an originator he is a failure. and be seems to regard the sum of a Senator’s duties to be fully discharged when he supports partisan measures only. Indiana has had little °* ** BmMton *