Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1906 — THE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

THE TICKET.

Wot Eeeretary of State— JAMES F. COX. Wot Treasurer of State— JOHN I6ENBARGER. far Auditor of State— ;! MARION BAILEY. For Attorney General— WALTER J. LOTZ. Wot Clerk of Supreme Court— BURT NEW. Wot Superintendent Public Instruction— ROBERT J. ALEY. War State Geologist— EDWARD BARRETT. Wor State Statistician— DAVID N. CURRY. For Judge Supreme Court, First District— EUGENE A. ELY. For Judge Supreme Court, Fourth Diet.— RICHARD ERWIN. For Judges Appellate Court, First Diet.— MILTON B. HOTTEL. G. W. FELT. Per Judges Appellate Court, Second Diet.— RICHARD R. HARTFORD. HENRY Q. ZIMMERMAN. HENRY A. BTEIS.

The Pennsylvania Republicans adopted a radical platform and nominated a machine tioket, but aa the late Senator Hannadeclared on the Statehood matter, Republican platforms are not binding. If the millionaires should be kept out of the United States Senate, as suggested by a judge of the Wisconsin supreme court, the present Republican representation in that body would dwindle to almost nothing. A Chicago man spoke for the first time in twenty-one years the other day, and the words he uttered were: “Is it hot enough for you?" If he addressed one of the beef packers his answer probably was, “None of your d business." Government ownership of raiiroac, telegraph and telephone lines is demanded in a resolution adopted at the late Democratic State Convention held at Yankton, S. D. Who ever heard of a Republican convention demanding any rights for the people? William D. Bynum, who has been a Republican for many years and who during all of the time has held a job at Washington which pays him $5,000 a year, wants it dearly understood that the Republicans can depeud on him as long as his salary goes on. This issue of The Democrat starts the ninth year under its present management. The six months that this paper was given by its enemies to “pass in its checks" have grown to more than eight years, and it is to-day one of the most prosperous newspaper plants in northwestern Indiana, and is still a-growin’. Upton Sinclair won the first round as the boss muck-raker when he exposed the filth of the packinghouses. President Roosevelt has won the second round by publishing the report of the filth uncovered by investigation. It is now “horse and horse" and the public will watch the next muckrake performance with interest. As fixed up by the friends of the meat trust in the House, the new inspection bill saddles the cost of the whole system on the government. But then, as the cost will be only about $5,000,000 a year and only the people pay the tax, what difference does it make to the Republican leaders, who never tire of telling us that this “is a great and rioh country."

Bishop Potter oalls a muck-rake a hammer, and his admonition is, “Hammer, hammer!” Hammering well kept up will surely bring results. It will even compel the President of the United States to see that the laws are faithfully executed. Let the press of the country hammer, and keep it up until all the rottenness is hammered out of the Republican party of trusts and grafters. All the exposures of rottenness and grafting have been brqught to the notice of the public by non-officials, which shows that the Republican political machine will never cleanse itself and that the execution of the laws is lax, although we are supposed to be governed by a strenuous administration. Therefore the voters must hammer the derelict Republican party into political oblivion.

Secretary Shaw, who is almost as hungry for the Republican nomination in 1908 as Vice President Fairbanks, says that “in some localities the term 'standpatter’ is opprobrious.” He is right, and Indiana is such a locality—and a pretty big one. But notwithstanding the opprobrium, Mr. Shaw declares that the Republican party is standing pat on the tariff, which is only another way of saying that it is standing up for the trusts and the whole brood of evils for which the present law is responsible.

The members of the bridge trust, which has been operating for a long time in Ohio and Indiana, pooling their bids and dividing the profits, are walking into court in the former siate and pleading guilty. The Ohio officials in starting prosecutions acted on evidence which the officials of this state refused to consider. The Riohmond Palladium, a Republican paper, deolareß that the state officials neglected to perform a sacred duty when they failed to proceed against the bridge combine, but the Palladium evidently has forgotten that the Republican platform says that “we realize that oapital must combine.” The Republican party in Indiana is merely standing by its friends.

Under a republican law and prosecuted by a republican administration, the paper trust has been whipped out ot exist ence. When suit against it was begun in 1904, the price of ordinary white news paper was $2.85 per hundred pounds; now it is jU.BS, a reduction of nearly 50. per cent.—Goodland Herald. The above we infer, is sent out by the Republican State or National Editorial Bureau, as we have seen practically the same statement in several of our Republican exchanges, and every editor that has given it space knew that he was printing a lie when he published it. The Democrat has been published as an all-home priut paper for nearly three years and consumes about two hundred pounds of paper each issue. It buys its paper in ton lots and where it can buy it the cheapest, quality considered. It has paid during this time $2.60 to $2 75 per cwt. f. o. b. Chicago, or *2.45 to $2.55 at the mill, and the price has varied but a few cents at any time duriug the past two years, while it is now as high as it has been at any time, we believe. The fact is that the republican trust buster don’t bust them, and no one knows this better than the newspapef publisher who is robbed by the paper trust, the type trust, the printing machinery trust and the printing ink trust. Just why an editor will give space to such palpable falsehoods as the above is beyond our comprehension, for he well knows from his own persoual experience in buying paper that the price has not dropped since the “republican party busted (?) the paper trust." If Bro. Shepherd—or any other republican editor—has proof to the contrary, we will give him an opportunity to prove the truth of his statement by agreeing to pay $2.00 per hundred for 10,000 pounds of ordinary print paper. -If he can get it for $1.85 per cwt this will give him a rake-off of sls on the deal, and he had better quit the newspaper business and go to selling paper, for there are thous-

snds of publishers who would dup-

lioate the Democrat’s offer. Better stick to bamboozling the farmer on the tariff, tell him how “the foreigner pays the tax,” eto„ and keep still about Teddy’s trust busting antics.-