Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 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.

The homeward tide of foreigners is again on the increase, and last week 17.000 aliens left New York as steerage passengers. Yes, (865,000 is Indiana's share of the public building appropriation, and this vast sum will be available in a few days, or as soon as signed by the President.

Indiana voters should not forget that every congressman from this state, with the exception of Chaney and Gilhans, voted last week for the ship subsidy graft, and every democratic congresman voted against it. Congressman Crumpacker of this district was among the republicans voting for the outrageous bill. Enough republicans joined with democratic members, however, to defeat the steal, the vote standing 145 for to 156 against.

And now comes North Carolina with a majority of 60,000 voting rum out of the state, and this election debars the manufacture of liquors in the state after Jan, 1, 1909. It will be well to remember that North Carolina is a democratic state, too. The school book companies have the Indiana patrons by the throat and force them to give up >700,000 each year.—Oxford Tribune (Rep.) True, and the people should elect a democratic legislature this fall which among other needed legislation will bust the school book trust. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson has just “inspected” the Chicago packing houses and found them "in excellent shape.” James Rudolph Garfield found them in a similar shape two years ago, after he had -filled his belly with good things to eat and drink at the Sirloin and Saddle Club..

District Chairman James K. Risk will soon issue the call for the democratic congressional convention, probably to be held at Monon, the most convenient point to reach from all quarters of this outrageously long, narrow and inconveniently arranged district. Mr. Risk really wanted to hold the convention at Fountain during the assembly, in August, but most of the county chairmen seemed to think the date too late, and he has about concluded to caM it for an earlier day, probably some time next month, and name Monon as the place.

The dismissal of a professor from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, for publishing his theories against marriage, and in favor of free love, reads like a libel on the “Prof.” The Captains of Industry, their offspring and the upper tens generally, have set an example of concubinage of late that is shocking to the lower tens. But having little or no money these small fellows’ opinions count for very little in

these matters or any other for that matter. These people, notwithstanding the fact that they are of easy virtue generally, remain prime favorites socially, and many of them are remarkably prominent politically. Money seems to talk. TRUST BUSTING. Another beautiful scandal, showing what kind of a “trust buster” Theodore Roosevelt is, has been made public by Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw of lowa. The facts recited by Mr. Shaw have been known to insiders since the absorption of the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Co., by the United States Steel Corporation last winter. The stock of this concern afteij having been liberally watered, was quoted at |l6O per share, before the late “republican panic” temporarily checked the “unparalleled prosperity” we were having, and therefore these fellows had no

trouble at all in securing a loan from the Trust Company of America of New York amounting to some 37,000,000 and securing it with a block of the stock of the company. The loan amounted to 370 a share on the pledged stock, and when the “republican panic” “came out of a cloud,” or from a source that Jim Watson has so far been unable to locate, the price went down to less than 350 a share, and the loan then overdue could not be collected, neither could the stock pledged be sold for enough to pay it.

Something must be done, and at once. Exposure of this state of affairs meant trouble for someone, and so the Trust Company was allowed to go “democratic,” thus getting it into friendly hands, where its rotten condition could be covered up temporarily. John Pierpont Morgan, Interested in all these soncerns, and the savior of the country on many occasions, saw a chance to get the only competitor the U. S. Steel Corporation had out of the way, so he sent 'Judge E. H. Gary, Chairman of the Board of the Steel Corporation to

the White House to see “if there would be any objection to his scheme from that source, as it involved a direct violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. That Judge Gary w&s assured that there need be no fear of the President interfering, Is proven by the fact that almost Immediately after this interview the announcement was made that the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway -Co. had been sold to J, P. Morgan and by him transferred to the, U. 8. Steel Corporation. Morgan immediately took up the loan of the T. I. C. & with the Trust Company, thus saving several “friends” of the administration from bankruptcy, and so far there having been no one even threatened with Indictment is pretty good evidence that several more “friends” have escaped prosecution for violating the anti-trust laws in the most shameful manner, and with the direct knowledge of the President, that has been made pub- » lie during this “trust busting” administration. To have this nasty mess made public by a former member of his official family ought to convince the most skeptical that the pretense of Theodore Roosevelt that he is pursuing the trusts relentlessly, is as false as is the pretense that he is a friend of the people. The further fact that from republican sources we hear that “Wall Street” is satisfied with “my candidate Taft” and that Andy Carnegie has contributed >250,000 to the Taft campaign ought to dispel any further doubt as to Roosevelt’s fight on trusts being a farce of the rankest kind.