Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1906 — A CARD. [ARTICLE]

A CARD.

I notice in a recent issue of tne Rensselaer Republican that Gov. Hanly is “hnding hard on Tom Taggart’s infernal gambling dens at West Baden and French Lick.” Now, why will people and papers, for political effect, misrepresent facts? Tom Taggart has no mare to do with West Baden than the editor of the Republican. West Baden is a republican affair, through and through. When the new buildings there (after the fire)’ were dedicated, when the gambling dens were opened, the orators for the occasion were ex-Gov. Durbin and Vice-Pres. Fairbanks. It is enough for the National Chairman to be proprietor of one gambling den (?)—he has sins enough of his own, without the saddling of those of West Baden upon him. We hope Gov. Hanly will not “light on” Tom Taggart, because he is chairman of the Democratic National Committee, but because he is a gambler; and we also hope he will not shield West Baden because it is a republican institution.