Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1906 — It’s Never Too Late to Mend. [ARTICLE]

It’s Never Too Late to Mend.

Ex-Governor Herrick of Ohio has evidently thrown to the winds his partisanship tor the Republican party and has joined the independents or perhaps the Democracy, for in his farewell address to the legislature he recommended about all the measures that the Democrats have been fighting for and that the Republicans have either opposed or failed to enact. This sudden conversion of the governor for good, wholesome reforms is more encouraging than his defeat for governor was, for it must lead many other Republicans to see the error of their way and come over to the help of the Democratic patriots against the hosts of evil. Directly Boss Cox was defeated and retired from the ring the good qualities of Governor Herrick began to appear, which only show's the power for evil that these corrupt political bosses maintain over their followers through fear of personal political consequences.