Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1908 — STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. [ARTICLE]

STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Governor THOMAS R. MARSHALL. For Lieutenant-Governor FRANK J. HALL. For Secretary of State JAMES F. COX. For Auditor of State MARION BAILEY. For Treasurer of State JOHN ISENBARGER. For Attorney General WALTER J. LOTZ. For Reporter of Supreme Court BURT NEW. For Judge of Supreme Court M. B. LAIRY. For Judge of Appellate Court E. W. FELT. For State Statistician P. J.' KELLEHER. For Supt. Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY. DISTRICT TICKET. For State Senator, Counties of Jasper, Newton, Starke and White, ALGIE J. LAW, of Newton County. For State Representative, Counties of Jasper and White, GUY T. GERBER, of Jasper County.

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

For Treasurer ALFRED PETERS of Marlon 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 Brd Dist. GEORGE B. FOX of Carpenter tp.

Among other things that make us laugh is the spectacle of a Republican editor begging for a removal of the tariff on wood pulp and paper in one column and declaring in another column that “the foreigner pays the tax.”—The Commoner. It’s enough to make any person laugh—even the average Republican who has swallowed “the foreigner pays the tax” falsehood in past campaigns.

In making demands on tjie county treasurers for advance payments of taxes the state officials admit that without these advance payments the state cannot meet its bills. In other words, the state has been living for yean beyond its income and its treasury Is bankrupt. And yet the tax rate has been increased and the assessed

value of property has been raised <0 per cent What has been done with the money?

“The Vreeland bill is a fraud on its face,” says the Fairbanks Indianapolis Stat. Of course it is, and there is no one acquainted with that fact better than the republican leaders in congress. Can the Star point to any law since 1896 that has not been a “fraud on its face?” including the republican blind tiger law of the last legislature.

Marion county, which has been in the hands of the Republicans for thirteen years, is not able to pay its bills. Like the state, during the I , same period, it has lived beyond its income. And like the state, too, the Republican officials have taxed the people heavily. The graft investigations have shown what has become of some of the money, but much has not been accounted for.

A bankers’ club in Chicago has invited Mr. Bryan to address a banquet of its members on finance. If there is anything wrong or ruinous in banking that Mr. Bryan doesn’t ably, eloquently and sincerely advocate, what the deuce is it?—lndianapolis Star (Rep.). It would seem that the Star, which is now in the hands of a receiver on a charge of Insolvency, would have common sense enough to avoid such silly flippancy as this.

J. Frank Hanly was right in his contention for the use of granite in the construction of the Tippecanoe monument, but wrong in his attack on his old law partner, Will R. Wood. There is more revenge in J. Frank than in an Indian, more venom in him than in a lance-head viper, more egotism than a jackass. His bump of gratitude would have as much room in a gnat’s gall cyst as a tadpole in Lake Michigan.— Oxford Tribune, (Rep.)

It is said that Andrew Carnegie has contributed 6200,000 to Taft’s expense fund. The trusts will be satisfied with Taft. He never has been regarded by them as unfriendly to their interests. He has uttered no opinion on public questions that commit him to the people’s side of any proposition. As a matter of fact, the Hon. William H. Taft is not the sort of man the people need. Roosevelt and the federal machine may nominate him, but that is as far as he will get.

The net earnings of the steel trust in 1997 were $160,000,000. Its net profits were 133,000,000. The steel trust could sell its steel rails at sl6 a ton and make a profit; but as the tariff keeps out competition, it sells its rails at S2B a ton to American consumers and ships them abroad and sells them to foreigners at S2O a ton. The steel trust is a “friend of the tariff” —one of the “friends” that the Republican party talks about when it has anything to say about tariff revision. ,

MR. MARSHALL COMMENDED. The Richmond Item, a Republican dally newspaper printed in the district which James E. Watson has represented in congress for several terms, severely criticises Mr. Watson’s campaign methods. It accuses him of unworthily using or attempting to use the fraternal and rellgtduto societies for his own personal benefit while at the same time seeking the aid of the liquor interests. The Item, among other things, says:

“In his race for governor he used his church affiliations as a political asset, and at the same time he did not hesitate to make terms with the liquor interests of Evansville, Terre Haute, Anderson and Muncie whereby he secured the delegations from those localities.” Speaking of Mr. Marshall’s wellknown purpose to make a straightforward, open campaign on principles, the same paper says: “The attitude of Marshall that will not stoop to these means will immediately commend him to thousands of voters.” . -

The fact that the Pennsylvania Railroad Company alone ha* 90,900 idle car* and 500 idle locomotives affords a sufficient comment upon the platform declaration of the Pennsylvania machine that the tariff is “the cause of America’* population, power and prosperity/’ So much for the prosperity aspect of the case. As for the population, more workingmen have been leaving the country in recent months than have come. But there is no question that the Pennsylvania machine’s office-holders and, dependents, who passed this tariff resolution, are in the enjoyment of a good deal of prosperity.—Philadelphia Record.

Among the many reasons why the democratic state .ticket is strong is this, that not one of the candidates is on the defensive. The head of the opposition ticket must go through the campaign defending himself from the onslaughts of labor from the charge of being controlled by corporate influence; of being inimical to Senator Beveridge; for his championship of the ship subsidy graft, and other things, more nearly personal, which were alleged by his opponents in the fight for the nomination, but which should not figure in a high-minded campaign.—Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.