Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1906 — The Republican Ticket Machine-Made and Boss-Ridden. [ARTICLE]

The Republican Ticket Machine-Made and Boss-Ridden.

The- 190 f» Republican state convention gave an Illustration of bossism and machine rule such as has never been witnessed before in this state. Disgusted delegates declared after the convention had adjourned that they had been used as mere trading stamps. They had no individual choice and their votes were bunched and dumped for one man and another as the manipulators of the machine dictated. What sort of “houße-cleaning could be expected from the machine-made And boss-ridden nominees of this convention If by any chance they should ba eeleted? Only the kind that will best answer the purposes of the politicians who are now In charge of the Republican organization. Surely it will not be what the people want. The people of Indiana will not allow themselves to be deceived by the “reform” and “house-cleaning” talk of the Republican state ring. There is not a genuine reformer or house-cleaner in the bunch. The Republican party of Indiana Is in the hands of a few political adventurers who want to control it —and the state, If possible—for the furtherance of their own ambitions. They don’t care about anything else, and a longer lease of power will be taken by them to mean practically a quit-claim deed to the state from the people. A vote for the Democratic atata ticket means a vote for honesty and economy In the state government *