Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1905 — HAVE YOU HEARD FROM ERIE? [ARTICLE]

HAVE YOU HEARD FROM ERIE?

Tract# Get a Message of Cheer From Hepabllcaas. The Republican state convention of Pennsylvania met a short time ago and ratified the programme and ticket prepared for it by the two bosses, Durham and Penrose. Not a motion was made or a word uttered by any member of the convention that was not arranged and ordered in advance of meeting. It Is hardly to be wondered at that these representatives of the Republican party of Pennsylvania should be so subservient, for when the county convention of Erie county met to elect delegates to the state convention it formally .-declared In favor of unlimited terms for all elective offices, including congressmen, and of making breach of trust while In office the only reason for terminating official terms. It is seldom you can get a Republican convention to utter Its true sentiments, btit this Erie county conven tiou seems to have been so sure pt its grouud and so'certain that it was master of the i»olitlcal situation for all time that It uudlsguisedly declared the Republican Hamiltonian doctrine of life tenure of office. We are cursed with life terms for our judges that Jefferson warned us against, and the Republican party would like to perpetuate its pdwer with life terms for congressmen and logically for presidents. That would keep “the boys” constantly in office without the worry aud expense of elections and the constant dread of the people rising up In revolt against Republican methods and policies. Oue can fancy the smile of satisfaction of the trust and corporation magnates when this message of cheer was wafted to them from Erie. From the great lakes to the gulf aud from the Atlantic to the Pacific wherever monopolists w ere gathered together must have gone up the shout, Have you heard from our friends at Erie?