Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 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 Jas* per, 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 Marion tp. For Recorder I 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 editorial about The Democrat in the Fowler Leader last week is now easily accounted for. When an editor has to stand up on account of physical infirmities inflicted by an infernal trust-busting broncho, he can not be blamed much if he gets “butternut brown” ideas in his thinking apparatus and expresses them on paper. But John should take his spite out on the broncho, and not on us. We didn’t tell it to kick him, and in fact didn't know it was going to until we read it in the paper. The receiver recently appointed for the Indianapolis Star, the Muncie Star and the Terre Haute Star has filed his report showing the assets to be $225,513.31 and the liabilities to be $886,799.07. Excess of liabilities over assets, $661,285.76. And no account is taken of the $1,000,000 of capital stock outstanding, which would increase the liabilities an even $1,000,000, or make the total liabilities over all assets $1,661,285.76. If we owed that much money we’d feel like throwing up the sponge.

"Can the republican party afford to be doing business with the ‘lnterests’ this year?” wails the Indianapolis News— always reliably republican when the campaign opens. How can the republican party afford to do anything else? Having lived for years wholly on Ipot that it had very considerately placed the tariff barons and their allies, the criminal trusts, in a position to extort from a long-suffering public, who else could it be expected to do "business” with? Does the News expect it to turn down its best and only friend? Men representing the "Interests’' have had

absolute control of the party since 1868. They have financed every campaign. They have dictated every republican candidate for th® presidency from Grant to Roosevelt, and they will dictate the candidate at Chicago June 16. They have put their trusted lieutenants in Congress, wheh not there in person, and no bill is or has been allowed to be made Into law without the O. K. of the "Interests” had been first secured. Every tariff bill, every financial bill that has been made Into law—not excepting the abortion signed by Roosevelt Saturday night—has been dictated by the'“lnterests.” In short, If there were no “Interests” there would be no republican party. Destroy one and the other will be wiped off the face of the earth! Who else is there then for the republican party to do “business” with?