Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 February 1908 — JORDAN TP. CONVENTION [ARTICLE]

JORDAN TP. CONVENTION

Notice is hereby given to the democratic voters of Jordhn township and to all others who desire to affiliate with them, to meet on Saturday, March 14,1908, at Egypt school house, district No. 1, at 2 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of nominating a township ticket and to select delegates to the democratic county convention which will be held in Rensselaer on Saturday, March 21, 1908. F. M. Welsh, Chm. W. D. Bringle, Sec.

“Some of the federal officeholders are so busy traveling over the state looking after the interests of their candidate or their chief that they can be found in their offioes only on pay day.” So says Oliver P. Ensley, a member of the Republican state central oommittee. Surely these be great days for civil servioe reform.

The republican congressional convention will be held in Michigan City Maroh 30. Judge Crumpaoker will be present and make a key-note speech for the oampaign in this distriot, It is not believed the Crum packer opposition will be strong enough to “down” the Judge’s machine, and that he will be renominated without any difficulty. '

The names of Attorney Charles O. Spenoer of Montioello and O. J. Murphy of Brookston being hrged by the friends of eaoh for delegates to the democratic national convention. Fred Henoch of Laporte and Mr. McGill of Valparaiso are also candidates. Owing to White being an adjoining

ooanty and in our senatorial district, it is likely that Jasper ooanty will line up for .a White county candidate, having none of hie own so far as we have heard.

The chairman of the Republican State League of Georgia writes an open letter to President Rooeevelt, in whioh he says: “Where we were united we are now divided, where we were strong we are now weak, where we were prosperous we are now in the throes of panic. Our people are unemployed, wages have been reduced, we are beset by class legislation and disfranchisement, our wealthiest and most highly respected captains of industry are branded as criminals and our party is threatened with defeat." These Republicans are taking a very ancheerful view of the situation these days.

Marion county, with its 8,000 negro votes, has been heldjby the Republicans since 1894. Prior to that time the Democrats (had managed the county’s affairs economically and without a particle of scandal. Sinoe then, however, things have been going wrong. Taxes have piled up, expenses have grown and official crookedness has beoome a settled practice. In 1906 a Democrat was elected county auditor. He did not take his office until January of this year, but he has already uncovered startling frauds. So bad is the situation that all deoeut citizens are demanding that the courthouse be cleaned out. This means that Marion county, in spite of its 8,000 black votes, will likely be oarried by the Democrats in November.

The report that J. Pierpont Morgan has espoused Taft’s candidacy may or may not be true, but it is not surprising. Morgan has been on very close terms with the Roosevelt administration. It was Morgan who brought the enthusiastic support of the trusts to Roosevelt in 1904. It was Morgan’s partner, Perkins, who aided in getting the insurance* company contributions to the Roosevelt campaign fund. It was Morgan to whom Cortelyou, Roosevelt’s secretary of the treasury, turned over $33,000,000 of government money in two days to loan to gamblers on the New York stock exchange during the October panic. In many other ways and at other times Morgan and the Roosevelt administration have worked together. It wduld not be at all surprising, therefore, if Morgan should be for Taft, Roosevelt’s candidate,though Fairbanks, Hughes, Knox Cannon or Foraker would suit him just as well.

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