Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1907 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Democrats have uniformly and nnanimoualy opposed this reck* less and unjustifiable waste of the public money.

It must not be fprgotten that every Republican congressman from Indiana will vote for the ship subsidy graft, which takes millions of money from the treasury of the United States and gives it to the steamship lines of Harfiman, Morgan and others of that class.

When it comes to anti-lobby legislation, there is every reason why the sneaking, disreputable and criminal lobbyist should be put out of business. But there is no reason at all why any honest citizen, with an honest purpose should be classed as a lobbyist and be prevented from expressing bis opinions upon contemplated legislation to representatives and senators, either in or out of the state house. There is a well marked line between real reform and hysterical imbecility.

A Republican senator has introduced a bill in the legislature providing for the placing of a statue of General ‘Wallace in the vacant niche in Statuary Hall, Washington. Indiana is entitled to only two places and one of these is occupied by a statue of Morton. There has been, all along, a general understanding, that Thomas A. Hendricks should fill the vacant place. But without any understanding, Hendricks should have the honor. He whs the great towering Democrat, the unquestionable leader of half the people of Indiana, just as Morton was the great, towering Republican and the unquestionable leader of the other half. Regardless of politics, however, Morton and Hendricks in Statuary Hall will mean more and represent Indiana better than any other combination of the state’s distinguished dead.