Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1908 — AN ORGAN AT WORK [ARTICLE]

AN ORGAN AT WORK

It is wall known that the Indianapolis News is the personal organ of Vioe President Fairbanks. For a long time it has waged a relentless campaign against* President Roosevelt and has sought to discredit him in many ways.

AH this it did in the interest of Mr. Fairbanks. And now the News is looking about for a candidate for the Democrats—someone besides Mr. Bryan. It lets its eyes rest lovingly on Governor Johnson of Minnesota. Johnson looks good to the News—just now. In a column editorial the News says so many nice things about Johnson that one would think it could not resist the temptation to support him if he should be nominated. But the news would resist that temptation. It has always resisted the temptation to support Democratic presidential candidates. It has never supported one. And it will not support Johnson or any other Democrat. The news is a Republican paper—of the “holy” kind. Just now in opposing Bryan it is doing just what it has been doing in fighting Roosevelt —working kr the interest of Fairbanks.