Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1906 — Page 3

would have been to have compared the compensation of Smith with that of Michener, as they both operated under the same law. But the governor couldn’t do this and make the ■ point he was seeking to establish, as he knew Michener’s compensation was many thousand dollars more than Smith's. Ex-Attorney General Smith’s Services. I concede that Mr. Smith was well compensated for his services, but no man, not,' even the governor, has ever charged that Alonzo Greene Smith took a cent from that office that the law did not give him. 1 hold no brief for Mr. Smith, but I cheerfully defend him as a Democratic official und Just as cheerfully bear witness to the great ability be displayed in the discharge of his official duties. He was ever vigilant and watchful in protecting the state's great Interests entrusted to hls care. Indiana has had many able attorney-generals, but she never had one who has served her to a better purpose than Smith. ' In the campaign of 1880 the Democrats took the position that the wealth of the state, especially the corporate wealth, was not bearing its fair part of the expenses and burdens of our state government, and following Its triumph at the polls, it enacted by its legislature of 1801, the tax law, having for its object the equalisation of taxation. No sooner was this law passed than the great corporate Interests of the state, assisted and encouraged by the Republican party, including the present governor, began to plan to render it Ineffectual and ultimately to overthrow it. Under the leadership of Senator Fairbanks the Republicans incorporated In their state platform of 1882 a plank condemning the law, and they never ceased to oppose the law until it was fought through and upheld In all tue courts, including the supreme court of the United States. These tights were with the railroads, the express companies, the telegraph companies, the minks and the Republican party. Smith, ably assisted as he was, led in all these contests on the side of the state. He not only did all this in the case of the tax law of 1881, but he discovered, while in office, that none of the great sleeping car companies hud ever paid a cent of taxes to the state of Indiana. So be prepared the bill that afterward was passed by the Democratic legislature of 1883, over the protest and votes of the Republicans in the legislature, providing for the taxation of these companies. As a result of his labors millions of dollars have gone into the different treasuries of the state from properties not previously bearing their part of our government expenses. And when the governor, in hls Tipton speech, boasted of the work of hls state tax commission, in increasing in 1905 and 1906 the assessed valuation of these properties (29,261,000, he unconsciously boasted of the successful working of the law be voted against in the legislature. But there was something vastly more Important involved in the tight Mr. Smith and his party made to uphold the tax law than the amount taxes were Increased under It. it involved the right of a sovereign state to Increase whatever taxes upon property It might be necessary for the legitimate purposes of government without regard to the wishes of either man or corporation. Fee System and Hanly. We are informed by the governor that hie views concerning the law under which Smith received his compensation "are not new born," und that be opposed it In the general assembly on account of the excessive compensation it provided for the attorney-general. Is this possible in the light of the record? In 1880 the Democratic platform contained this plank: “We favor the total abandonment of the system of fees and perquisites In the payment of state and county officers; ana we demand the enactment of a law by the next legislature fixing fair salaries tor all public officials, the same to go into effect us soon as firact Icable." The next legislature was n 1891 and it was Democratic aud It redeemed that pledge made to the people by passing the general fee and salary law. The passage of this law was opposed in every manner conceivable by the County Officers' association of the state and this association was assisted tn its opposition to the' passage of this measure by J. Frank Hanly, who was then a state senator. And the fact is thut Attorney-General Smith stood with his party for the enactment of this law. which meant a saving to the people all oyer the state, and actually prepared with bls own hand a provlsloq of the law that reduced his compensation on collections forty per cent, below what had been paid Michener for like services. Every one understands, of course, thut the most fruitful source of income iu the attorney-general's office has been on collections. Aud the governor tells us he voted against that law. Then he voted to give Smith a greater compensation than he was asking, aud I submit he is now estopped to Und fault with the legal charges of this Democratic official. Proposed Insurance Legislation. We are told at length by the chief executive of the things he hopes to accomplish, If the Democrats will Join lu voting him u Republican legislature and lu tilling the state house with his partisan friends. The governor has the art of begging as highly developed at the man who turns hls crank or thrusts bls hat under your nose on the street corner. He pledges a great service lu dealiug with the insurance companies in the event the people will give hint a legislature that will do his bidding. He,,seems to want to deal principally with the local companies, aud informs the publib that the foreign companies are not children of Indiana, and that the governor does not bear the same relation to them as he does to the home companies. He admits, however, that their management has beeen as bad as that of the local companies. Now, since the governor is pleading so zealously with Democrats to vote his way, I would suggest to those Democrats, if there are any who are seriously considering gratifying his wishes, that they might get up a little reciprocity scheme with him. The Democratic platform of this year pledges the party to prevent the old line Insurance companies from doing any new business In this state until "a good faithful effort shall be made to recover the money" corruptly given to the Republican national committee for the purpose of debauching the voters of the country. If the governor is earnestly in favor of decency aud (♦an things in public life, be should not do less than to stand with bis Democratic supporters on this plank of their platform. But he will not do It. . He can not afford to. He was one of the beneficiaries of the theft and he has no disposition to iuter. sere to any considerable extent with the way these foreign companies carry on their business, since they are not children of Indiana und he is their beueticlary. Liquor Traffic. But I must not overlook the fact that the governor makes the usual biennial claim of the opposition of hls party to the liquor traffic lyid yet It is notorious that the liquor Influence of this state has for years past almost solidly supported the Republican party. I do not wish to be understood as saying that there are no saloon keepers who vote the Democratic ticket. There are many of them who do that. But I mean that the capitalists In the business—the manufacturers and wholesalers—line up with the Republicans, as a rule. Although It was a Republican legislature that passed the Nicholson law, It Is nevertheless true that Republican officials have Insisted In every Campaign since that they had the bill hung up In the committee on temperance, and that there it would have died If John W. Kern, then a senator, bad not had the bill called from the committee for action upon It. As recent as the last campaign Kern lost thousands of votes because of the part he took In getting the Mil out of the hands of the committee. It would seem from this that the whisky element believed It had more to fear from Kern than from the governor. And If you will stop to think about It, beyond what he says on law enforcement, you cannot tell where the governor stands on the • liquor question in this campaign. Does he favor more stringent legislation on the subject, or is he a standpatter? Let him apeak, if he has the courage. State Institutions. The governor, true to the custom of Republican politics, praises hls party for the nonpartisan management of our state Institutions, and he assures the public that

they shall be kept free from poUtloal control. One not conversant with the facts would conclude from wnat Republican leaders say on the subject that their party alone rescued these institutions from partisan control and placed them under nonpartisan management. The nonpartisan law governing these Institutions was approved by a Democratic governor, and the first nonpartisan boards appointed under it were named by him. At the head of the Central Hospital for the insane at Indianapolis he placed Dr. Edeuharter; over the Deaf and Dumb Institution he Installed Richard O. Johnson; Dr. Smith was given the management of the Institution for the Insane at Richmond, and Dr. Rogers was appointed to a similar position over a similar institution at Logansport. These men are all old-fashioned Jacksonian Democrats, still serving the public iu the positions given them by Governor Claude Matthews, and the credit is due to them more than to anyone else for the humanity, the economy and the improvements in the management of these institutions. So satisfactory has their services beet) that the Republicans, in their maddest moments, have not dared, and they do not dare, to remove them. Building Naw Institutions. When the governor comes to consider what hls party has done tn the way of providing penal and benevolent institutions for the state be finds himself embarrassed for the want of a recora—for the want of something that has been accomplished by his party along that line, and he is obliged to content himself with telling what he hopes his party may do in the future. Fortunately for the state aud the Democratic party, the Democracy of Indiana has a record of works accomplished In behalf of our unfortunates and the state in general to which it proudly points. From 1875 to 1895, during nearly all of which time the legislature aud administrations were Democratic, the following buildings and institutions were constructed: The main buildiug of the Central Hospital tor the Insane, the statehouse, the Northern Hospital for the Insane, the Southern Hospital for the Insane, the Eastern Hospital tor the Insane and the Scuool for FeebleMinded Youth ut Fort Wayne. Besides, Democratic legislatures made necessary appropriations fur numerous additions to other Institutions and Xor erecting additional buildings at the State University, Purdue University, the State Normal School, Soldiers and Sailors' Orphans' Home at Knightstown, for the State Soldiers' Monument, at Indianapolis, and tor the Reform School for Boys aud the state prisons. Don't you think the governor will have so be kept iu office a long time to make a showing that will compare with that? Paying the State Debt. The Republican party ts constantly lauding what It Las done in the payment of the state debt, and yet neither in its platforms nor from the stump has it ever told how it was enabled to make any payments upon this debt. I cannot* at tikis time discuss this subject at length, but I can very briefly show to whom honor is due for the increase lu the debt. The devising of a method for the payment or the debt was first takeu up by the Democratic party in its legislature of 1889, upon the recommendation of Governor Isaac P. Gray, and under an act of that session of the general assembly and under the Democratic tax law of 1891, and the sinking fund act passed by the Democrats In 1893, every dollar tfils beeu' raised that has been applied on this debt by any party up to this good day, except the amount of an old war debt, amounting to (635,859.20, which was paid lu 1902, by the national government to our state and applied on this debt. So you see the debt has diminished aud is being wiped out through methods originated and put in operation through the wisdom and statesmanship of the Democratic party, and the only credit Republican officials deserve in the premises is that they have refrained from stealing aud properly applied the money. For this lam willing to concede they are entitled to great honor in the light of recent disclosures.

Cleaning the State House. What does it cost to keep the statehouse clean under a Republk-nn administration? My question has no reference to the salaries and fees of the officials. It only embraces whitewash and disinfectants. Governor Hanly took hls office In January, 1905, and up to September, 1906, he has paid out of the state treasury for recent Investigations of state offices. Including attorney fees, the following amounts: Out of the governor’s military and civil contingent fund( 5,420.00 Out of the governor's contingent fund for Institutions 5,984.65 Out of the governor's emergency fuud 2J541.85 Out of the escheated estates turn!. TOO. 00 Total (14.340,00 I submit It cost entirely too much to keep Republicans straight In office, and this within itself ought to be a sufficient reason for a change of administration. House Rent and Bipartisan Graft. The attack the governor makes on what he denominates "bipartisan graft," Is eloquently und forcefully stated. He says that "every doubt has been solved against the state and in favor of the official." His words penetrate like arrows in his denunciation of the hateful system he so righteously abhors, and he leaves the impression that under no possible circumstances could he be seduced to join the organization of the bipartisan grafters. But let's judge of him by his record—not by hls eloquence or power of Invective. The law under which he is serving the people provides geneAmsiy for him. It contains this provision: "For the executive department: Regolar salary of governor, (8,000; rent of governor’s residence, (1.800." Eighteen hundred dollars a year for rent is at the rate of (150 a month. He was inaugurated January 8, 1905. and lived in the Claypool Hotel in Janury and February of that year. March, 1905, he drew rent for January, 1905. less nine days. (105. and for February, 1905, (150, and in all (255. He will doubtless welcome the opportunity to explain where it was that he had a house rented during this period. But he draws bls rent at the rate of (150 a month to and Including September, 1906. Then a thought dawns upon- him, and he concluded he nad better write a letter to hls attorney-genera I and get an opinion. He was prompted to wrtte this letter beyond doubt by the peculiar condition of affairs then existing In the statehouse. He had been drawing rent at the rate of (150 a month, but hadn't been paying that amount for a house. Asking Attorney-General’s Opinion. He closed down on Sherrick on September 14, and soon thereafter it became apparent to him that he might be called upon to give an account of how he bad been bandllug funds upon which he was authorized to draw under proper conditions. So Oct. 21, 1995. he begins to get ready to Justify hls conduct and he calls the attention of the legal department to the section of the constitution that provides: “The governor shall, at stated times, receive for hls services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected"; and then he save to the attorney general In a letter, “I desire to be advised by you whether the provision for rent of the governor’s residence is within the meaning of the word 'compensation' contained in the section of the state constitution above referred to." But fearing that the attorney general's opinion might be against him on this question and being exceedingly anxious to appropriate to his own use the whole of the (1,800 set apart by the state for his house rent, he fires another question at the attorney general, nad here it Is: “Is the governor entitled to draw the (1,800 for house rent provided by this appropriation without regard to the amount of rent actually paid for the residence occupied by him? Now. It would seem that it ought to have occurred to Mr. Hanly that If the legislature had Intended that he should have by way of Compensation for his services more than (8,000 annually, It would have said so by Increasing the amount of the stated salary, and the attorney general so informed blm in effect. Mr. Millar’s Reply. But the. legal department of the state comes to the governor’s nelff on hia secend question. I quote from the opinion of the attorney general: ■ "It is a well-known fact that in 1901 the legislature very seriously considered the irectlon and maintenance of an executive I niuloi, and that a bill to that effect waa

introduced in the legislature, and It is rea- I •enable to prose ms that the Increase n ; the amount of house rent was made to sub* serve the purpose of an executive mansion. "This being true, it la my .opinion that this appropriation can be properly used to provide a home in a habitable condition for the chief executive, and this would inefude necessary light, heat and water, as well as repairs, for the comfort •? the chief executive and hls family.” I think it will be generally conceded by the legal profession that Governor Manly’s attorney general has suggested a new canon of statutory Interpretation. What lawyer ever before heard it contended that the interpretation of a law may be determined by or will depend upon the character of a bill Introduced In the legislature on some other subject? Aud who before ever heard It suggested by the-learned or the unlettered lu the law’ that house rent means coal and gas and watet? How many farmers do you suppose there are In Indiana who feel it is their duty to supply their tenants with coal oil? Of course there is no law preventing a landlord from agreeing to furnish his teaant, in connection with ths bouse, gas and coal and other necessities. But he -cannot be compelled to furnish these things unless they are in the contract. Now, If I were going to search for a presumption springing from the introduction of a bill for the construction of an executive mansion, I would say that the attention of the legislature having been called to the needs of an executive mansion and taking no action thereon, but afterward enacting a law giving the governor a specified amount for house rent without any reference to lights and fuel, the presumption would arise that the law-making power did not Intend to provide light ana fuel for him. I submit it would be more reasonable to indulge this presumption than the one suggested by the attorney general: but the truth is, they neither one arose, and no one knew that better than the governor and his legal adviser. Early Lack of Itemized Interest In the legislature of 1897 a Democrat secured the passage of a law providing that when vouchers are presented to the auditor of state for a warrant, they snail be accompanied by Itemized accounts and statements. This is a wholesome law, and Its object is at once apparent, but our governor failed to comply with It the first be was iu office, unless he paid (150 a month for hls house alone and of course he will not claim he did that. There la evidence in the auditor's office showing he pays for hls house alone at the rate of (85 per month, which is but (10 more than onehalf of the amount he bus been drawing. In June, 1900, Mr. Hanly received a warrant drawn on hls house rent fund, for (721.54, aud In this Instance he accompanied his voucher to the auditor with an Itemized statement showing how he expended the money. It will be of interest to you to know how he did It, and here is his showing: For telephones he paid (24; for repairs of his landlord's house be paid (18.45: for gas for light and heat, (81.09: for fuel, (155, and for rent. (425. Now- if the governor believed thut house rent included telephone rent or cnarges, house reflairs, gas and fuel, why did he file hls temized statement? Why didn’t be just write his voucher for house rent? Does anyone doubt how Mr. Hanly would have sddved the doubt had he beeu in the position of Daily aud Henderson in the auditor's office? I believe that upon this showing alone the bl-par*isan grafters could be persuaded to admit the governof and hls legal adviser to their organization. Fails to Publish Receipts. The constitution provides that “an accurate statement of receipts and expenditures of the public money shall be published with the laws of each session of the general assembly.” The purpose of this provision of the organic law la to furnish the people a means of knowing what their state government Is costing them. Thousands of citizens of the state seldom If ever get to the state capltol, where a record of those things Is kept. They therefore have no way of gaining such informa tiou except in the manner provided by the constitution. The acts of the general assembly are distributed in all sections of the state, so that auy citizen may obtain the desired information with but little trouble to himself. Former administrations have yielded obedience to this constitutional mandate. Governor Hanly is at the head of the board of public printing that has charge of the publication of the laws, but he omitted to publish with the acts of 1905 a statement of the receipts and expenditures of the public money. He may make his explanation for this omission, if he has one, but I surmise the people will experience no trouble in reaching their own conclusions for hls failure to perform this duty. It Is costing the people, according to the reported receipts, more than three million dollars a year more to run the state government than It cost under the last Democratic administration, and yet we have Governor Hanly’s word at the time of hie Inauguration that there was a large deficit in the public funds. If it were not that the counties have come to the relief of the administration by makmg enormous ad vances, the state would have to Issue bonds to get money to meet her obligations, and Republican lenders eall this condition of affairs "business management."

Hanly and Taggart. The governor is giving much time in hls speeches to the Democratic chairman. I have not been commissioned to represent Mr. Taggart. In a contest with hls assailant be does not need any defense at my hands. He has always taken care of himself In the past, aud I think it is reasonably certain he will mauuge to do so In the quarrel the governor Is Insisting upon having with him. Mr. Taggart understands that If he has violated the penal laws of his state he will have to mnke hls owu defense unassisted by his party. But I submit the governor Is Insulting the intelligence of Democrats when he asks them to support him In this campaign because of the charges be is making against their national chairman. In view of the fact that up to this time the courts have found for Taggart aud against him. But to break the force of Taggart’s Judicial victory over him, be says to the public: "Taggart won In hls own court, but the state will win in the supreme court.” This is a vicious, anarchistic assault upon the courts of our state. Under the circumstances, it is as much of a condemnation of our supreme court as it is of the Orange circuit court, and Is a part of the vocabulary of the "Red Flag” organization. Honorable Thomas B. Buskirk, who presides over the latter conrt, belongs to one of the old prominent and substantial families of the state. He had served his country well. When a boy he shouldered bls musket aud under the folds of the flag fought for four years to [ireserve the nation, and It has been left for the governor of Indiana to call in question for the first time the high character of hls citizenship and patriotism, for If he Is a corrupt Judge Be has no more patriotism than a grafting governor. On April 30, 1904. at a reception given the governor and that other eminent Republican, Daniel E. Storms, upon their return home ofter their nomination respectively for governor and secretary of state, Mr.’ Hanly, lu addressing hls remarks particularly to the soldiers present, said In a trembling voice: “O, sirs, but for you there would be today no proud republic; but for you there would be no starry emblem of the free, teaching the nation* of the world lessons of civilization, freedom and patriotism; but for you there would be no state of Indiana for me to lie governor of." How hollow and hypocritical these words now sound, when viewed in the light of the treatment Judgll Buskirk is receiving by the man who uttered them. Bryan's Test Applied. Democrats are urged by the chief executive to get themselves in good shape, by voting the Republican ticket this year, to beat hls party In 1908 when he hopes to be its nominee for president. It is never hard to find men who are willing to barter future sacrifices for present victories. The latter always come first. But In order thst the Democrats may have he doubt about It being their duty to vote the Republican ticket, he quotes Mr. Bryan’s statement, tuat “The honesty of the party’s purpose is shown, not merely hy Its platform or the speeches of its candidates and supporters, but by the character of the men who are Intrusted with the party management," and then he pulls a poker chip from hls pocket and asks “if that doesn't Impeach the management of the Democratic party.” Weil, if it does, what is going to become of the governor and his party when the Bryan test is applied to them? Now the goveror will admit, of course, that he is at the head of the management of the Republican party in Indiana, and I charge that the governor’s aversloa to men who won poker chips to new born. It

hasn’t been long since he met, for party consultation in an Orleans bank, the famous Ed Ballard, the gambler of all gamblers in the French Lick valley, and who has made liberal contributions to Republican campaign funds. A few years ago, when our governor was trying to break into the United States senate. Captain Harry New, then the proprietor and editor of the Indianapolis Journal, and now acting chairman of the Republican national committee, said of him In hls paper: “Hls services to hls party do not Justify hls selection. Either of the four gentlemen who oppose him has rendered the party much greater and longer service. Hls claim to being the poor man's candidate is not sustained by the lavish display being made iu hls behalf. Hls political, oratorical and professional attainments are surpassed lu each case bv some one of bis competitors, no one of whom has ever demanded or received financial compensation for whatever he may have given in the way of campaign effort.” According to this picture drawn of Mr. Hanly by Captain New, he was then sailing under false colors and demanding pay for whatever he did toward the success of hls party; and he has never yet changed hls colors. He pretends to be morally shocked over Taggffrt’s poser chips, when it is charged, and be doesn’t deny it, that he is a stockholder in the Columbia club (a corporation), that maintains, runs and operates a saloon, bartering and selling intoxicating liquors every hour of the day. A corporation can not obtain a license to sell whisky, and a stockholder In a corporation that deals In wnlsky is nothing less than a saloon keeper without a license in the background. If Governor Hanly will repair to hls mother's grave hand In hand with Tom Taggart, and there, some night when the voice of nature is hushed and the language of conscience most easily interpreted, compare records with him from their boyhood, I assure him the national charlman will not suffer in the comparison. Gordon's Opinion of Hanly. One of the lending Republican papers in Indiana is the Richmond Da ly item. Its proprietor and editor is Biunett Gordon. a stanch Republican, and a scholarly and cultured gentleman. He Is for law and order. ' In -a long and able editorial on the governor’s Tipton speech, he says: "When the peace and sanctity of the home, and the protection and safety of the fireside was the issue in Richmond a year ago, where did Governor J. Frank Hanly stand? ~ , "He stood for a polluted home. legalized and blackmailed prostitution, and political corruption, and stood there knowingly, defiantly, Insolently, because be had an alliance with the machine of this city.” So I submit that to whatever extent the governor is in charge of the management of his party, his party is utterly discredited under tue Bryan test that the governor adopts for the guidance of Democrats. Let no one deceive himself that Governor Hanly is better than hls party. He is a part of Its machine, and knows of its corrupt operations. He misleads no one. iu referring to certain Democrats as bosses, and will not be able in this way to'have the iniquity of himself and party to pass for virtues. I am speaking advisedly. Judge Roby’a Speech. One of the nominees of the recent Republican state convention Is Judge Frank 8. Roby, flow appellate Judge aud a candidate for re election. Judge Heaton, of Ft. Wayne, was also a candidate before that convention for the nomination of supreme judge, but was defeated. On the Saturday following the state convention Roby, who is an honest man and »n able jurist, made a speech before the Republican district convention at Ft. Wayne, in which he made serums charges against the management of the Republican party in Indiana. Hear a very brief part of what he said: "What I mean is the corrupt lobby representing large interests that spent thousands of dollars within • the last week to work its will in the Republican party in Indiana » » » "These men have the balance of power and it is to those who hold It that I direct my words. “It Is an actual fact, which I know, that every man who has proved derelict In hls duty, has become a thief and a defaulter in Indiana had hrs warrant for the nomination written for him by a corrupt influence at work in the organization of the Republican party. "i say to you. gentlemen of this convention, that the time must pass when Republican state tickets are written iu any other state or by any other control than the people of Indiana. I say to you that the time must end when six men can meet on the eve of a state convention, the day before the balloting, and strike off this man's name and put on that one. as It might suit their master's will. I am talking, gentlemen of this convention, about conditions, not about theories. * * * I say to you that the man who. ns much as any other man, made that slate and left from It the name of your distinguished fellow citizen j Is a resident of the state of Kentucky and a part owner of a Republican newspaper i in this mstrict. "Gentlemen of the convention. Judge I Heaton and myself, in some way, incurred the animosity of these men, who spend corporate money to buy legislation and Influence courts. I had rather ten thousand times be defeated on an Issue of this sort than have been nominated and elected by votes thus obtained."

As to Boss-Ridden Indiana. There is the charge directly made by the nominee of the governors own parly that thousands of dollars were corruptly used to control the Inst Republican state convention. and if I remember correctly Governor Hanly and his friends boasted that that convention was under hls control. It comes of 111 grace, in the light of Judge Roby’s senthing charge, for the governor to talk about the boss-ridden condition of the Democracy of Indiana. Again, applying the Bryan test solely upon the strength of Republican evidence, would the Republican party merit a single vote at the polls this fall? I commend this test to those Republicans who think more of their state than they do of the band of conspirators and traitors who, through the instrumentality of the Republican party, In the language of Judge Roby. T 'wlth corporate money buy legislation and Influence courts." The Democratic party’s record In the management of state affairs In the past is a guarantee of what the people may expect In the future, if they again elect to restore it to power. 1 can not, In the course of one sp<’eeh. discuss all the meritorious things going to mnke up Its claim upon popular favor and at the same time give proper consideration to the venal acts of commission of the party In power. In addition to the creditable thlugs done by the Democracy, to which I have already alluded, the voter should not for?et that the Democratic party has stood or the preservation of our Institutions and for public morals through a pure ballot. It gave to the state the Australian ballot system, over the hostile opposition of the Republican party and has continuously labored to preserve nnd strengthen that law, over the persistent efforts of Republican boodlers In every way possible, to weaken and render It noneffective to the end that voters might be corrupted without the purchaser nnd those buck of him Incurring the risk of prosecution. Democrats and School Book Law. Democracy rescued the state over the opposition of Republicans from the corrupt, heartless and oppressive control of the school book octopus, nnd saved the people more than one-half of What they nad heretofore been paylug for books. Under that law the saving amounted to millions, and to whatever extent the octopus is again controlling the situation and operating In Indiana is directly chargeable to the unholy alliance It has with the Republican party. The heart of Democracy has always beaten in sympathy with the struggling masses. Ours la not only the "white man's” party, t»ut first, tne "poor mnti’a” party. It has always tenderly guarded the Interest of labor. It has to Its credit a long list of laws enacted for the benefit of workingmen. Some of them to which I may direct your' attention are: The eight-hour labor law, the law prohibiting "pluck-me" stores, the repeal of the nefarious Republican Intimidation laws, the law prohibiting the Importation of Pinkertons, the law prohibiting "blackmailing,'’ the miners’ law providing for the proper rentllation of mines and the use of honest weights and screens; the law protecting workingmen In the right to organize for mutual defense, the co-employes' liability law, the mechanics' Hen, law, the law proLtoitlng the forced collection of fees froze

•mployta of railroad corporations to sustain company hospitals and restaurants, ths law guaranteeing the civil righto of all citizens and the law prohibiting the Importation of paupers and aliens under contract into the state who have no purpose of becoming citizens thereof. The conditions and methods of our benevolent and reformatory institutions have been improved by the board of charities’ law, given the state by the Democracy. Under this law our splendid system of charities has attracted wtde attention and is a monument of honor to the party that originated It. -Jne service rendered the state by the

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DCTMRjgrir-tiffrty onni'.ea frtp m snppon of the people. They have enjoyed the fruits of Its labor, skill and honor, given for the public welfare without having to endure shame and humiliation while it was Intrusted with power. It pointe to a clean record. ’ No charge has ever been made that a Democrat, while holding a state office, became a felon. The contraet Is shocking and admonishes the Christian citizenship of the state to vote for a change, or administration. See G. E. Hersh man for farm and city loans and fire insurance.