Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1908 — DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

For Treasurer ALFRED PETERS of Marion tp. For Recorder CHARLES W. HARNER of Carpenter tp. For Sheriff WILLIAM I. HOOVER of Marion tp. For Surveyor FRANK GARRIOTT of Union tp. For Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER of Rensselaer. For Commissioner, Ist Dist. THOMAS F. MALONEY of Kankakee tp. For Commissioner 3rd Dist. GEORGE B. FOX of Carpenter tp. Who says “let well enough alone”? You don't see that old slogan in the Republican papers any more—not even in the standpat organs. Truly time and Republican policies work wonders. After all, it was not necessary for the delegates from the Eastern states to the Democratic national convention to be instructed at home. That little matter can be attended to at Denver.

Just because it had it in its power to do so, the paper trust decided to take $60,000,000 a year more from consumers. And a Republican congress (which includes one James Watson of Indiana) has refused to change the tariff on paper—the only remedy for the abuse. Standpat editors (as well as others) should sit up and take notice. The Fairbanks machine papers v leave nothing unsaid that is calculated to injure Senator Beveridge and to lessen his influence in the Republican party. They are now broadly intimating that he supported President Roosevelt’s request for four new battleships (to cost

>10,000,000 each) because he was induced to do so by the steel trust. Some Republicans in New York organized what they called “A Better Times Association,” and Intended to send a million postal cards to the chairman of the Republican national committee —each card to be sent by a different member of the association. So far the chairman has received only twenty cards. It is not postal cards but votes for the Democratic ticket that will bring "better times.” The attention of the Republican editors who, like their Democratic brethren, are paying exorbitant prices to the paper trust for their print, paper, is called to the fact that all of the Democratic members

of congress signed a petition to Speaker Cannon signifying their readiness to vote to place wood pulp and print paper on the free list. If only thirty Republican members had Joined them the thing could have been done. But not even Jim Watson or Charlie Berry Landis or Crumpacker or any other Republican congressman came forward. The distress among the unemployed at Indianapolis Js so extreme that the city authorities, in response to a public demand, decided to give men work on the streets. When this fact was announced the crowd that appeared clamoring for work was so great that scarcely one out of twenty could be provided for. And Indianapolis is probably better off than most cities of its size, from which it may be Inferred that the general business depression caused by the panic shows no sign of improvement. But not a’ word did the Indiana Republicans say about these things in their platform. It was different, however, In 1894, when they falsely charged the Democratic party with responsibility for the McKinley tariff panic of 1893.

The Republican national convention when It meets in Chicago June 15 will have more contesting delegations than any national convention ever had before. Most of them come from the South, where Taft, Foraker and Fairbanks have struggled desperately for votes. It is said that immense sums of money and all sorts of influences have been used in the efforts to get votes for one or another candidate. Practically every convention called to elect delegates began with a riot, proceeded for a time in riot and broke up in riot. It is admitted on all sides that no such disgraceful doings were ever witnessed before, anywhere. The friends of all the other candidates with perpetrating every conceivable kind of political fraud, and it appears that all of them are telling the truth about each other. What possible good can come out of the Republican national convention?