Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — GOVERNOR HANLY. [ARTICLE]

GOVERNOR HANLY.

While Governor Hanly calls himself a republican in politics and in most of bis ideas holds to republican principles, yet The Democrat admires him for his efforts to enforce the laws and prevent drunkeness and rowdyism in Indiana, and when it comes to this all good citizens, regardless of political affiliations, should lend him a helping hand. At New Albany Saturday the Governor, referring to bis efforts to enforce the laws on the statute books of Indiana, said he considered himself the representative of the whole people, and not of one party. When he took the oath of office to enforce the laws, he considered it more than a mere formality, and that the oath meant that the statutes were to be literally observed. He promised that until the end of his term in office he would adhere to the same course he had followed thus far,

notwithstanding the predictions that such a course would result in political oblivion for him. He appealed td the audience to assist him in his work, and said that without their aid he would fail in his task. He has shown au independence thus for that is commendable, and it is noticed that the most of the kicks he is receiving come from the press and members of his own party. It is announced that Gov. Hanly has succeeded in closing the lid at West Baden and French Lick, where luxurious gambling rooms, rivaling the notorious Monte Carlo, have been running for many years. The sooner the voting citizenship of the country gets itself into full understanding that in deciding purely local issues at the polls the best road to take is the broad, free highway of independence the sooner will universal evils that afflict municipalities everywhere be corrected and grafting made impossible.—Ft. Wayne Sentinel. The hunting for technicalities would probably reveal minor errors in some part of the proceedings in practically every improvement ordered made by counties or municipalities, but a great improvement like the Iroquois ditch ought not be defeated to gratify the personal spite of one or two men who are taxed nothing for the improvement. Winamac Republican: It is said that our neighbor Cass county is financially embarrassed, on account of the defalcation of the democratic treasurer Obenchain, and that county orders are marked •‘not paid for want of funds.” The bondsmen do not pay up and there is a well defined effort among them to get released from their obligations as sureties. Political and other baneful influence and pressure is being brought to bear on county officers to get them to blind their eyes to the interests of the county, and to take final action that will release their political friends at the county’s expense. And here it is a republican treasurer and his bondsmen who are seeking to be relieved of their obligations.