Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1908 — To the Democrats of Indiana and all Those who Desire to Co-operate With Them: [ARTICLE]

To the Democrats of Indiana and all Those who Desire to Co-operate With Them:

By order of the Democratic State Central Committee, the Democrats of Indiana, and all who desire to oo.operate with them, are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomlinson Hall, in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, on Wednesday and Thursday, Maroh 25 and 26,1908, for the purpose of adopting a platform, the selection of Presidential eleotors, contingent electors, delegates to the National Democratic Convention, and to nominate candidates for the following State office*, to-wit: Governor.

Lieutenant Governor, Secretary oi State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney General. Reporter of the Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instruction. State Statistican. One fudge of the Supreme Court for Fifth District. One Judge of the Appellate £ourt for First District. The Convention will be composed of 1,371 delegates—necessary to choice, 686, Jasper County will be entitled to 7 delegates in said convention. The convention will be oaiied to order Wednesday, March 26,1908, at 10 o’clock a. m. The delegates from the respective counties composing the several Congressional Districts will meet Wednesday, March 25, 1908, at 2:30 p. m , at the following places:

First District—State House, Room 45, first floor. Second District—State House, Room 11, first floor. Third District —State House, Room 12, first floor. Fourth District —State House, Room 83, second floor. Fifth District—State House, Room 91, third floor. Sixth District—State House, Room 93. third floor. Seventh District —Court House, Criminal Court Room. Eighth District—State House, Room 102, third floor. Ninth District—State House, Room Bs. second floor. Tenth District—State House, Room 120, third floor. Eleventh District—State House, Room 29, first floor. Twelfth District—State House, Room 15, first floor. Thirteenth District—State House, Roon ft 2, third floor. At eaoh of snoh meetings the following officers and members of oommittee will be selected, viz:

One Member of the Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization. One Member of the Committee on Credentials. One Member of the Committee on Resolutions. One Vice President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. N One Presidential Elector and one Contingent Elector, Two Delegates to the National Conventon. Two Alternate Delegates to the National Convention. The Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization will meet in room 147, Grand Hotel immediately after the adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Credentials will meet in room 146, Grand Hotel, immediately after the adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Resolutions will meet in ordinary, Grand Ho-

tel, Wednesday, March 25, 1908, at v 7 p. m. The Convention will reassemble at Tomlinson Hall at 7:30 p. m., to receive ths reports of the Committees except Committee on Platform. The Convention will meet March 26, 1908, at 10 a. m., for the adoption of a platform and the nomination of candidates. U. S. Jackson, Joe Reiley, Chairman. Secretary.

It will be a blessing to the country when Charles Warren Fairbanks is put nnder the table. This political dodger has been favored to much already.—Oxford Tribune (rep)

Every trust in the United States will join the Republicans in a demand for a tariff commission. A tariff commission merely means years of delay and no relief for the people at the end of it.

The faot that five Democratic candidates for governor and many candidates for other offices have already engaged hotol headquarters for the state convention indicates that there will be “something doing” in Indianapolis, Maroh 25 and 26.

“He has been loyal to every trust,” say Mr. Fairbanks’s Republican “neighbors and friends” when speaking of him. And what is more to the point, the fact can be proved. All of the trusts, if necessary, will oome forward with testimony.

The Crumpacker political machine in the Tenth distriot have invited a fight, and on their heads be\he results. Some of the “canners” have made the boast they would rule the* Tenth distriot or torn it over to the democrats, and the Rensselaer convention is a fair sample of the'tactics that will be employed to farther their own ends. It is rotten to the oore, and any good republican that understands the motives end methods will say the same thing. Brook Reporter (rep.)

Vice President Fairbanks’ family organ, the Indianapolis News, not only lambasts Roosevelt at every opportunity, but criticises all others who do not do likewise. And all this because Roosevelt is opposed to Fairbanks, who is the “choice” of the Indiana Republican machine.

In .its annual report the steel trnat admits that it made a net profit of more than $160,000,000 last year. Its net profits for the year previous was about the same. Three hundred and twenty millions of profit off of American consumers in two years as the result df the “protection” which the steel trust gets from a Republitariff —a tariff which enables the trust to hold up the people of this country and rifle their pockets while it Bells its products abroad at much oheaper prices.

The Indiana Republicans, unless they are a duller lot than they claim to be, most realize the dangerous situation in which they have been placed by the candidaoy of Mr. Fairbanks. Nobody in Indiana asked Mr. Fairbanks to be a candidate. He is selfpropelled and self-oiled. And yet he goes to Chicago with the “solid” Indiana delegation. It is a machine-made delegation, but it means “thirty votes for Fairbanks.” Bat that ie not all it means. It means to outsiders that the Indiana Republicans are willing to allow Fairbanks and his Wall street allies to class them as reactionaries, as opposors of reforms, as enhmies of progress, as friends of the trusts —as being against everything that the overwhelming sentiment of the oountry is for, and as favoring everything that that same sentiment is against. Is this the real attitude of the Indiana Republicans? If it is not, what are they going to do abont it? Is it solely the work of the Fairbanks maohine, aided by the jobhunter? If it is, what will the honest rank and file do to show their disapproval ?

The Democratic State Committee has issued the offloial call for the state convention, for March 25 and 26 at Indianapolis. The convention will meet in Tomlinson Hall. Rooms for the thirteen distriot meetings have been engaged. All of these meetings will be held in the state house except that of the Seventh district, which will be held in the criminal oonrt room, oourt house. Every detail of the convention is being arranged with the expectation that it will be the greatest gathering of the kind ever held by the party in the state.

Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, said the other day at Marshall, Mioh: Three hundred thousand freight oars standing empty on the traoks, 8,000 locomotives white leaded and out of commission, one-fourth of the population of several large cities idle, and for the first time nnder a Republican administration free sonphouses in every industrial center; the price of farm produce naturally and materially depreciated, furnish an objeot lesson which ought to prodnoe a measure of sober-mindedness on the partof ths American people.” As this is republican authority we trust our exchanges of that political faith will not have the audacity to brand it as a “democrats lie.”

The price of refined oil has been increased 30 oents a barrel by the Standard Oil company since the beginning of the panic. The oil company explains the inincrease in prioe by saying that when men are out of work they stay at home of evenings and read. This means the use of mors oil, and the more oil the people want the higher- the ootopus puts the price. In other words, the philanthropic Rockefeller, during hard times, levies a heavier tax on the poor ban who stays at leprae and informs himself by reading of nights. By so doing Brother Rockefeller is enabled to make a larger donation to the Chicago University and other institutions of “higher education.”.

The United States civil service is badly demoralized. Every holder of a federal job seems to be neglecting the duties4or which he is paid with the people’s money while he is whooping things op for Taft, Fairbanks, Knox, Foraker, Gannon, Hughes or some other Repnblioan oandidate. Evidence of this digraoeful condition may be found daily in the newspaper organs of the candidates themselves. Charges and countercharges of the misuse of federal patronage by Republican politicians, from President Roosevelt down,' are printed by the column. Sorely civil service reform has become qniokly a decrepit, baldheaded, toothless, knook-kneed, spavined reminiscence in these degenerate Repnblioan days. Have yon gotten youb Wall Chart yet? If not yon bad better harry the matter np as they are going very fast and it will not be long until the,present supply is exhausted.