Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1906 — CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

The democrats of the Tenth district will meet in delegate convention on SATURDAY, JULY 14,1906, in Michigan City, Ind., at 1:30 p. in. for the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress to be voted for at the November election in 1906. The delegates irom the several counties will be selected in such manner and at such time as the county central committee of each county shall designate. The several counties of the district will be entitled to the following number of delegates: Benton 7 Jasper 7 Lake 14 Laporte ; 22 Newton 5 Porter...! 7 Tippecanoe 21 Warren 5 White ..10 Total 98 Jas. K. Risk, Chm. It is notorious that all the exposed grafters were enthusiastic defenders of “national honor” and shouting for republican candidates and policies in 1896, 1900 and 1904. J” The Fish Trust, protected by the republican tariff from 20 to ‘43 per cent, and over, is making' hay while the sun shines by taking advantage of the public antipathy to embalmed beef and other packing house products and has raised the price of fresh and salt fish to the usual plundering point of tariff protected monopolis.

A western republican editor, believing that an honest confession is good for the soul, admits that he loves his party and all its brood,in the following lines: 1 love thy trusts so fair, Thy fondness for hot air, Thy men of graft, Thy railroads that rebate, Thy corporations great. ' Thy millionaires elate; The whole blamed raft. ’Si ■'

The Wisconsin Democrats endorse Bryan in their state convention, thus joining Missouri, Penney Ivannia, Arkansas, North Dakota and other progressive states.

With appropriations of $900,000,000 during the first session, it is very clear that we are rapidly leaving behind the mere billiondollar stage of our existence as a nation. —IndianapoliaNews (Rep.) | But whenever anything is said about Republican extravagance and waste the cry goes up from the faithful defenders that this is u a great and rich country.” It is only the people who have to foot the bills.

The Democrats and Lincoln Republicans of Pennsylvania have fused on Lewis J. Emery, independent Republican, for governor, but aside from that nomination the whole Democratic state ticket is to be supported by both parties. The Democratic convention put the following Bryan plank in its platform: “We congratulate the country upon the fact that the only prominence which the present Republican national administration has obtained has been acheivod by a feeble and pretended application of the principles enunciated by William Jennings Bryan, the great Democratic commoner, who is now regarded as the certain successor of Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency.”

The Starke County Republican, edited by J. L. Moorman, chairman of the Thirteenth District republican congressional committee, has the following comment on his former colleague of the state committee, “Tom” McCoy:

“* * * His father before him set h ; m the very worst example possible, and in the wrecking of the bank the elder McCoy ran his son a race in over-drawing accounts. Under other circumstances Thos. J. McCoy might have made a far different man of himself. But he got started wrong and was continually kept upon the wrong road. Such being the case how was it possible for him to come to any other end? Tom McCoy is to be pitied; not for his crime nor for his sentence, but for the life-long training to do wrong which his father gave him. The McCoy who went free is more guilty than the McCoy who wears the stripes of infamy.”

All that has so far been done against trust plundering is merely scratching the surface. Not a trust has been forced to reduce its enoimous profits and indeed the cost of living has greatly increased since the so-called trust ousting began. Does not this show that therepublican politicians, although making faces at the trusts in public, are secretly allowing them to continue the predatory warfare on the people. If the republican party really wished to prevent the trusts selling their products cheaper abroad than here, the leaders in congress would have allowed some sort of tariff revision bill to pass. But all the bills for that purpose have been voted down in committee by a party vote, even the bill to reduce the tariff to 100 per cent, on those articles that are taxed over that enormous percentage. The fact is the trust busting campaign is intended to just scare the trusts and combines enough so they will “come down with the dust.” The campaign fund in that way is replenished and the corporations and the republican leaders are combined for a new lease of life. That pleasant pastime is rather expensive for the people for all they buy has advanced on an average 47 per cent, since the present tariff law was enacted.

Republican editors, who know no better or have nothing else to think about, are still fond of referring to the “free silver fallacy” of 1896. What is the truth about the matter? The small output of gold at and prior to 1896Jtimited the money supply and kept it below the needs of the country. There was then in circulation only about $24 per head of population. The quantitative theory of money was all that either Mr. Bryan or

* . the Democratic party stood for in 1896. Thia theory has beeii vindicated by the enormous increase in the supply of gold, making the use of silver as standard money unnecessary. Although the Republicans claimed that there was enough money in 1896 and that more wonld mean “cheap money,” they have increased the per capita circulation to $34. Nature and improved processes of extracting and Utilizing gold have settled the money question, and it is no longer an issue. The following from the Commoner is interesting: “The New York Press, Republican, said something about Mr. Bryan’s ‘abandonment of the free silver fallacy.’ Referring to the Press’s statement, Louis F. Post, writing in The Public, Chicago, says: ‘Mr. Byran has not abandoned what the Press classes “his free silver fallacy,” which consisted in the quantitative theory of money—the theory that the value of money is determined by supply and demand. He was for silver coinage in order io increase the supply of money when gold was scarce; he has not concerned himself about silver recently because the increase the supply of gold has augmented the quantity of money more than he had hoped for from the free coinage of silver. In other words, nature has supplied the quantity of money in gold which Bryan has demanded of the government in silver. To say, then, that be has changed his position is a misrepresentation.’ ”