Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1908 — A COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

A COUNTY TICKET.

Democrats Will Meet Today To Nominate. CONVENTION CALLED FOR 10 A.M. ■. ■ *— — For Preliminary Work But Convention Proper Will Not Be Held Until Afternoon. The democrats of Jasper county meet in Rensselaer today to nominate a county ticket, and let us hope that the usual good judgment will be shown in the choice of candidates, and that we may be successful in electing at least a part of the ticket in November. It is not a pleasing local picture that confronts the democracy of Jasper county, with its big republican majority, which is so all-power-ful that a nomination has generally been equivalent to an election. But people in Jasper county as elsewhere are growing wiser. They are learning that such conditions are not for the beet; that it is necessary to have under our fora of government two political parties; that to insure an honest and economical local government it is not best to let one side or party have things all their own way; that where this is done for year after year conditions become rotten and a crowd of political leeches grow up about them that actually believe the taxpayers owe them a living, and that, too, without their laboring very hard to get it—that is, manual labor. Party ties are setting more loosely on the shoulders of the average taxpayer each year, and he is beginning to see for himself a little, rather than letting the politician see for him. He sees these fellows about who live off the sweat of the taxpayers, and he is beginning to get wise. He realizes that the only way to change such a state of affairs is to change the conditions that created them, and he is going to be more independent in his voting in the future than he has been in the past.

Such beiqg the case, it behooves the democrats to place their best men in the field for the offices that are to be filled this fall. We are all equally interested in good government and it will hurt no man *to go down to defeat, if defeat it proves to be, in a good cause. To win we must have, some republican votes, and these must come from the better element in that party. To secure these votes we must bhve a good clean set of men on our ticket who will inspire the confidence and respect of the voters, and with such a ticket we believe a part of our candidates at least can be Elected in spite of the six hundred republican majority that evfronts us. Democratic prospects look very flattering indeed in both state and nation, and let ps democrats In Jasper county by put action today endeavor to strengthen this condition by placing a ticket in the field to which we can all point with pride.