Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1908 — IT LOOKS PECULIAR. [ARTICLE]

IT LOOKS PECULIAR.

President Roosevelt says he tsars that he will not be able to accept the invitation to attend the dedication of the Harrison statute ceremonies at Indianapoliß next May, and regrets that his duties in Washington with a congress on his hands may keep him from coming, Is very sorry for he would like very much to come, etc. Evidently the flavor of those Fairbanks cocktails still linger with the president, and he may conclude to break away and come anyhow.

George Ade has notified Congressman Crumpacker that he is not a candidate for delegate to the republican national convention from the Tenth district. Probably George could have the place if he wanted it, but as these delegates are usually taxed from 1200 to 11,000 or more —according to their ability to stand bleeding—it is probable George considers he doesn’t care to be bled. He is evidently not so verdant as some of his writings would lead one to infer.

The Democratic papers of this section are charging the failure of the Goodiancl, Fowler, Ambia and Remington banks to what they are pleased to call "political banking." That is, the owners of the banks are Republicans and therefore in-, competent to do an honest business. The same papers during the last campaign tried to make political capital out of the failure of the McCoy and Giimau banks. Following their line of argument a man can't engage in an honest business and at the same time vote the Republican ticket; but some wav they are having a hard time to make the fool people believe it.- Kentland Enterprise. The Democrat hadn’t noticed any extraordinary effort on the part of Democratic papers to make political capital out of these bank failures, but come to think of it, it does look rather funny, doesn’t it, that all of these bankers should have been thouting for an ‘‘honest dollar” and the preservation of the “country’s honor” in 1896 and 1900? —White County Democrat.

Yes, and what a long list there is of them —Tom McCoy, republican chairman of the Tenth district; old Alf MoCoy, sooth-sayer and manager of “sheep roasts” to which free special trains were run, paid for no doabt in numerous instances with the money of both republican and democratic laymen who trusted their hardearned dollars in their rotten bank; (. Walter Brown, chairman of the Thirteenth district republicans; Fred Gilman, republican chairman of Newton county; Jesse Fry, the Boeelawn banker and politician; Baldwin & Dague, Robert Parker and dozens of others if we had the time to name them. All republicans and all politicians more or leas and country-savers in ’96 and j 1900! Then there was another j

one, the king bee of the middle weet old John R. Walsh, whoee big bank in Chicago, was closed by the government a year or so ago and who is now facing a hundred or more oriminal oharges for dishonest banking methods. What a list! What a record! No wonder the Enterprise is oonoerned for fear a little democratic capital may be made out of it. Not all bankers are republicans nor are all republican bankers rascals, but search the records of the “busted” banks of our own immediate section of the country and one will find that about 100 per cent of the bankers who have gone broke were republicans and were more or less prominent in republican politics.