Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1906 — LANDIS DENOUNCED [ARTICLE]

LANDIS DENOUNCED

Former Republican* Editor Will Support Democracy. It Is said that the Republican state committees is now engaged in sending out “cartloads" of the speech delivered in congress by Charles B. Landis in defense of the trusts’ private tax law, known commonly as the Dingley tariff law. Soon after that speech was made, Albert G. Small, formerly editor of the Logansport Journal and a Republican, wrote a letter to the Logansport Pharos in which he forcefully expressed the views of thousands of other Republicans. Mr. Small said: “The time has come, I feel, when thoughtful Republicans—those who have at heart the interests of the people rather than those of the special interests —are called upon to forsake the party that has betrayed them and to resist with their might a policy I which has delivered us bound and well nigh helpless into the hands of the trusts. The tariff is the issue. The theory of protection which has ' so long deluded us is no longer that beneficent thing which we were taught was necessary to the upbuilding of our “infant" industries. Those “infants’” have grown up—giants,they now are and our masters. And worse and woe! If not shorn of their strength they will destroy us. “It is to this cause —the reduction of the trusts —that thoughtful Republicans should address themselves in the coming campaign. The way to do this is to return a Democratic congress. The fatuous “standpatters” that at present dominate and override our government cannot be expected to do anything for our relief from the burden of taxation we are bearing. Their only desire —all forgetful of the duty they owe to the people who sent them to Washington—is to protect themselves and the special and grossly fat interests which they serve and at whose bidding they thus “stand pat.” They seemingly forget that their ultimate fate is in the hands of the people. Now the people must not forget the power they possess. Shall we permit the men whom we have sent east to be our servants to turn masters and dictate to us a policy not only inimical to our own best personal interests, but subversive of the greater interests of the nation? “When Mr. Charles B. Landis made that amazing “stand pat” speech in congress the other day he forgot his elective and representative errand on that floor. He was speaking for the trusts and not for the people who employed him to stand as their representative in that high body. Surely the Ninth district does not stand for the principles he thus unblushingly enunciated. Nor does Indiana at large stand for this shameless policy of protection to interests that are now gloating over and fattening upon the people that created them. “The time has come for ancient political friendships to cease. The Republican party, false to the traditions that made it great, can no longer claim our allegiance. Its present fictitious greatness, based upon apparent majorities secured through circumstances in no wise related to the party at large, merits a sobering ’ shock. The party in this state— | grown overgross—needs the staying I sense and realization of a strong and ' powerful party of opposition. That | opposition should be felt this fall, i For one. with the interests of my beloved state dearly at heart, I shall : consider it my duty to support the | opposition. Nor am I alone among Republicans to thus protest.”