Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 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 HAILEY. 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 Slate Statistician P. J. KELLEHER. For Supt Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY. DISTRICT TICKEf. 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 PETERB of Marion tp. For Recorder CHARLES W. HARNEII 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 Dlst. THOMAS F. MALONEY of Kankakee tp. For Commissioner 3rd Dlst. GEORGE B. FOX * of Carpenter tp.

The State Board of Tax Commissioners has reduced the assessment of the corporations, which means that the farmers and other taxpayers will have to make good the difference. “T— — ' ' . Before it went into the hands of a receiver appointed by a United States court, the Indianapolis Star was violently anti-Taft. But under the receivership it is friendly to Mr. Taft. What its course will be later on is a matter of speculation. Republican congresses have spent $34,000,000 more during the past four years than were spent by the government during the four years of the civil war from 1861 to 1865. The expenditures for the past four years amount to $3,428,809,371. For the four years of the civil war the total expenditures were $3,394,830,931. Attorney General Bingham makes a big splutter about somebody “tipping off" his raid on the gamblers at West Baden and French Lick. As the men who are charged with keeping the gambling establishments at v both places are Republicans and . are doubtless contributors to the campaign fund of their party, it is likely that they were warned by persons who were in on the scheme. The Republican party doesn’t go to extremes with friends —not when an election is coming on. During the six years from 1893 to 1898, including all of Cleveland's last administration and half of McKinley's first, 10,279 new offices of all kinds were created at a cost of $6,018,417. During the six years of 1903 to 1908, under Roosevelt,

99,319 new offices were created at a cost of $69,843,506. The figures are given in a statement prepared by Senator Culberson, which may be fofind In Vol. 42 Cong. Rec. p. 7619. So, therefore, when it comes to new offices Republican administrations at Washington are Just like those at Indianapolis. And the people pay the freight in the way of higher taxes.

Governor jflanly bias a hard time getting along with his friends. He “split” with his old partner, the Hon. Will Wood. Then he quarreled furiously with his old neighbor, Senator Fremont Goodwine. K’ow another old neighbor, Charles V. McAdams, has resigned from the sfate railroad commission, because, it is said, the governor used him unworthily. But the Hon. R. Harry Miller and the Hon. Union Banner Hunt are still true.

In a column and a half of plate matter sent out by the Republican state committee in an effort to explain away the extravagance of the state officials is this statement: “The last state levy made by Democrats was 32 cents. That was in 1893. The state levy for this year made by the Republicans is 33.35 cents. There is good reason for the advance of 1.35 cents.” The “good reason"-alleged is the need of the state schools. But the advance in the levy is 4.35 instead of 1.35. The Democratic levy of 32 cents included 3 cents for the state debt sinking fund, leaving the levy for other purposes at 29 cents. The Republican levy includes nothing for the sinking fund.

That the President of the United States would stoop to such methods as are being used at Chicago to secure the nomination of Bill Taft, or would permit any of his (Officeholders or henchmen to aid or abet in this disgraceful affair, is almost beyond belief. The same methods employed by this great civil service reformer in the past are being employed by his henchmen, every man jack of them an appointee who has left his job for the purpose of forcing the nomination of —Roosevelt —upon his party. So are these methods and so offensive to all' decent men has the presence of federal office holders on the committee hearing the contests from the southern states, where the colored gentleman is much in evidence. become that the chief offender. Frank H. Hitchcock, the President's campaign manager, after having refused to resign, has been forcibly removed from the committee. Even Ex-Gov. Bradley of Kentucky declared the whole arrangement a “brace game.” NO BOODLE PUBLICLY. Doubtless there has been a tremendous "awakening of the conscience of the nation” as has been so many times declared. But the awakening did not reach the Republican majority in congress. The acts of the session just adjourned is proof of this fact. For illustration, the Democrats, and honest people generally, demanded that a bill be passed requiring contributors to campaign funds to be made public. John Sharp Williams, the Democratic leader in the house, challenged the Republicans as follows: "I stand to challenge you that every dollar that goes into a campaign fund, shgll be published to the world the day after it is received so that the world may know the motive of the giver and may judge the means of corruption in the hands of the recipients.” But did the Republicans pass the bill? Not a bit of it. They propose to make the usual campaign contracts with the trusts —bartering legislation for campaign funds —and they do not intend to publish the evidence of their crime against the people. I have $300.00 to place at once, on real estate. Anyone wanting $300.00 call and get terms. h—: —~ F< FERGUSON.