Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1908 — CONDITIONS IN LAKE COUNTY. [ARTICLE]

CONDITIONS IN LAKE COUNTY.

A republican paper of Lake county, in speaking of the-political conditions there, has the following to say: The assets of any political party are primarily its principles, platform, its past record, and its candidates, the prevailing industrial and sociological conditions previous to and during the campaign. But the prevailing sociological and industrial conditions have at all times been the greatest assets of any party and therefore, because of the long reign if normal conditions, the republicans in Lake county have been able to get in so often that Lake has been admittedly a republican county. if sociological and industrial conditions are each party’s asset, all indications point toward democratic success next fall. That the reigning power will receive the blame for the empty dinner pail goes without saying. How much Lake county republicans are to blame for it will not be asked; there is dissatisfaction and is enough. The Ignorant laboring man who is appealed to with torch lights, speeches and bands, can at no time be caught with these lures with his stomach empty. That organ’s rumblings are louder than the noise made by a brass band. It is a fact based on the evolutionary laws of nature that man needs a change, and it is bound to come despite ail planning to the contrary, and for years there never has been such a clamor for a change as there is to-day.