Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1908 — THE COMING CAMPAIGN. [ARTICLE]

THE COMING CAMPAIGN.

The democratic party will go into the campaign this year without the support of a single metropolitan newspaper east of the Mississippi river, with possibly one or two exceptions. Tpusts and combinations have not confined their work to congress, courts, legislatures, federal and state officers. These men early saw the importance of reaching the people directly, and this could be done best and most surely through the dally paper. Even the great news-gathering associations are controlled and the news censor-

ed by these same men. Very little news that makes unpleasant reading for the powers that be, or their lackeys, is allowed to appear in print. Notwithstanding all this, the local press, that comes directly in contact with its readers and reflects the sentiment of the plain people more nearly than any other, has with few exceptions remained steadfast, and the real work of educating voters In the measures that will give relief to the plain'people and determine the election In November, upon which such mighty results hang. Roosevelt has recommended the removal of the duty on wood pulp, a material from which all newspaper is made, so as to reduce the price of this material. But one must be stone blind not to see that this is only a sop thrown to the newspaper men who of all others are entitled to least consideration. They more than any other set of men created the condition which has become almost intolerable and which has almost doubled the price of print paper. And the very papers that are now so bitter in their opposition to democratic candidates and democratic measures assisted nobly in this work. The Democrat has, and will remain steadfast, and will come to all Its readers twlce-a-week after June 1 during the campaign, chock full of readable, reliable news, so that when you see It In The Democrat you can depend upon it being so.