Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — NOW BLAMES A WOMAN. [ARTICLE]

NOW BLAMES A WOMAN.

After the way he has been treated in the house of his friends, will the Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks ever have the courage to look an honest, hard-working cocktail squarely in the face?

Subsidy Jim Watson’s effort to make it appear that he is running for governor “on his own responeibility” is absurd. Everybody knows that he expects to be nominated by the crowd who have parcelled out state nominations for years.

In the recent municipal elections in Connecticut the Democrats made substantial gains throughout the state. Next month six states will elect governor, viz., Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey and Mississippi, In many other states elections will be held which, may throw some light on next year’s probabilities, though local issues and conditions will cut a large figure.

In less than ten years the Republican party has increased the cost of the state government two millions of dollars a year. And even at this it has been compelled by the extravagance of its expenditures to obtain advances every year from the county treasurers. Without these advancements the state could not have met its obligations Republican “business administrations” come high.

The taxpayer who digs down into bis pocket for his part of the expense of the new jobs created by the late legislature for Republican politicians will have a hard time to see where the value received comes in. The state auditor’s office alone, cost $19,000 a year two years ago, now costs over 150,000 a year since it was “reformed." And other offices were “reformed”’ in the same way.

Surely these look like imperial* istic days—these days of Theodore the First. One member of the cabinet is sent on a mission to Mexico. Another one goes to Ja£an and the Philippines. A third is hurried away to the Pacific coast to personally investigate the troubles with the Orientals, Then Theodore the First hikes out for the Mississippi valley and makes a triumphal trip down the river accompanied by the governors of seventeen states and a gorgeous fleet of steamboats. And finally the president, with a select of gentlemen and hunting dogs, takes to the forests in quest us bears and boars. What more could Emperor Billy do?

- - ; ■ . ■ Everybody except the gigantic “infant industries” and their paid defenders knows that the tariff ought to be reformed, but the Re* publican party, which has the power to reform ft, refuses to do so. Why? Because it receives, io the way of campaign contributions, a part of the money which the tariff allows “its friends” to steal from the people. How much longer are the people going to submit to this sort of thing?

Many of the Republican papers of the state are still “taking pokes” at Governor, Hanly. They say that his support of any Republican candidate will hurt the candidate, and that if he favors any particular person “he bad better not say so out loud.” But if Hanly is the tighter that his friends say be is, he will be pretty apt to say lots of things "out loud”—but hardly all the things he thinks about some of his Republican brethren.

The football season is now “on” in earnest. Last Supday’s and Monday’s papers contained brief accounts of three deaths on the gridiron, while broken beads, arms and limbs were numerous. And hundreds of cases of bad injuries, no doubt, never got into the papers at all. And the rules of the game have been revised recently to make it less dangerous to life and limb, too! The only way to make football a safe game is to abolish it altogether.

The friends of Candidate Taft are beginning to smell a large political mouse. At least they are making a noise like it. They are afraid that their man is being “double-crossed” by the Roosevelt forces. they ask for a delegation in some state they are met with the suggestion, “Oh, let’s get an administration delegation, and then at the proper time we will turn it over to Taft.” This doesn’t look good to the Taft people. They are fearful that “the proper time” will not arrive and that “an administration delegation” will never be able to see anybody but Roosevelt.

The methods that are being resorted to by Vice . President Fairbanks and his friends to explain the cocktail episode are very much worse than the presence of liquor at his luncheon for President Roosevelt. What purports to be the latest authorized and official explanation appears in a leading religious publication printed in Chicago. It lays all the blame on a woman—a neighbor of the Fairbanks’ and a friend of the family —who was assisting in the preparations for the presidential entertainment.

According to the account this woman ordered the cocktails while the attention of Mr. and Mrs. Fairbanks "was occupied with greetings to the visitors.” The order was given to the club of which the woman’s husband was 8 member, the "club steward” prepared the drinks and sent them to the Fairbanks .home “in great haste.” The account says that “the first that Mr. Fairbanks knew of the violation of his Methodist habits was when he came to the table with his guests.” This method of trying to “get from under” is not only ungallant, but it is the next thing to silly. It is well known that there was an abundance of other drinks at the table besides cocktails. It is not pretended that the friendly feminine neighbor ordered them—doubtless, because nothing has been said about the presence of the other liquids at the feast. Women have had to bear a great deal in this world, but it is a queer sort of a presidential candidate who will try to make one of the sex a scapegoat in a case like this.