Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 December 1907 — TO The Democrats of Indlana and All Those Who Desire to Co-operate With Them. [ARTICLE]

TO The Democrats of Indlana and All Those Who Desire to Co-operate With Them.

In accordance with an order o* the Democratic State Central Committee, the Democrats of Indiana and all those who desire to cooperate with them are invited to select delegates in each county in Indiana, Saturday, December 28, 1807, at a time to be fixed by the District Committeeman. These delegates so selected will meet for the purpose of electing a committeeman to represent theht on the State Central Committee, on the second day of January, 1908, as follows:

First District, Evansville. Second District, Linton. Third District, New Albany, Fourth District, Seymour. Fifth District, Terre Haute. Sixth District, Cambridge City. Seventh District, Indianapolis. Eighth District, Win- hester. Ninth District, Frankfort, Tenth District, Monon. Eleventh District, Peru. Twelfth District, Ft. Wayne. Thirteenth District, Plymouth. The following resolution was unanimously adopted, viz.:

Resolved. That the members of the Democratic State Central Committee shall call or cause to be called, primaries or conventions in the county or counties comprising their respective Congressional districts, for the election of delegates to said convention, said primaries or conventions to be held under such rules and in such manner as the said members of the State Central Committee shall prescribe in thier respective districts. The delegates apportioned among the several counties of the State shall be on a basis of one delegate for every 200 votes, and one for each additional fraction of more than 100 votes cast for John W. Kern for Governor at the November election in 1904, the several counties by districts being entitled to the following representation, viz.:

- TENTH DISTRICT. Lake.... 14 Porter 7 Laporte ~ .......... 22 Newton 5 Benton 7 Warren 5 Tippecanoe..... 21 Jasper 7 White to The Chairman in each county will give notice at least twenty (20) days prior to the selection of delegates to attend the District meeting, in their local Democratic papers, giving the place, time and hour of holding such meeting for the'selection of delegates. Wm. H. O’Brien, Jos. L. Reiley, Chairman. Secretary.

It seems to be James E. Watson’s idea that a considerable part of the 1250,000,000 surplus taken from tne people by excessive taxes should be given, in the form of subsidies, to the steamship companies controlled by Harriman, Hill, Morgan, Rockfeller and other impecunious persons. Just watch Watson —and also the other Replican congressmen.

During the 1906 campaign the Republican state- committee and the republican newspapers “pointed with pride” to the price of hogs and other things, and told the farmers it was due to a Republican administration. And now, let us ask, what are they prepared to say about the late prices of bogs and other things? We still have, unfortunately, a Republican administration.

Now that Ohio has two avowed Republican candidates for president—Taft and Foraker—a bitter struggle may be looked for. And it will be all the more bitter because the tight is both personal and factional. Unless Roosevelt abandons him, Taft will have support of the national administration forces, while Foraker will have back of him every anti-Roosevelt element in the state. The fight will split the Ohio Republicans as they have never been split before, and probably destroy any chance they may have to carry the state at the next election.

And now Charley Landis, republican congressman from the Ninth Indiana district, has come forward and advocates Mr. Bryan’s idea of the government guarantee of deposits in national banks. He says the proposition is growing in favor, and that he is convinced that this simple expedient will do more to re-establish confidence in banks and thereby stop withdrawls of money and coax out of hiding money that has been hoarded, than anything else that has been sugges ed. Mr Landis is also convinced that it would settle the postal savings bank question. He says that banks that are chartered by the Government and inspected by the Government should have their integrity guaranteed by the Government. He says that a tax of one tenth or one-twelfth of 1 per cent on the deposits would be ample. He feels that under such a law every national banker in the country would be alert to discover weakness or delinquency in his brother bankers, and that in a short time nearly all the banks would be nationalized or that State and private banks would take steps looking to the raising of funds that would give depositors the same protection.