Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1908 — GILLAM TP. CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

GILLAM TP. CONVENTION.

The Democrats of Gillam township and all who wish to affiliate with them in the November election, will meet in mass convention at Center School House on Saturday, July 11, 1908, at tw j o'clock p. iu., for the purpose of nominating a township ticket to be voted on in the November election. C. F. TILLETT, Chm. J. W. CULP, Sec. Tenth Congressional District Nominating Convention. The democrats of the Tenth District will meet in delegate convention on Wednesday, July 22nd, 1908, in the city of Monticello, Indiana, at 1:30 p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress to be voted for at the November election in 1908. The delegated from the several counties will be selected in such manner and at such time as the County Central Committee of each county shall designate. The several counties of the district will be entitled to the following number of Benton 7 Jasper 7 Lake 14 Laporte ...22 Nemton 5 Porter 7 Tippecanoe 21 Warren 5 White ~ 10 Total 98 JAMES K. RISK, Chairman. JAMES W. SCHOOLER, Sec.

On the same day the Republican National Convention was eulogizing Roosevelt for the prosecution of illegal trusts and monopolies, the Beef Trust which had been prosecuted and convicted was unblushingly increasing the price of beef from 20 to 30 per cent The word hardly squares with the deed.

honest stand-patter must even be ashamed of the miserable maximum and minimum tariff ’ makeshift.

It now appears that the administration has changed its mind and will not treat with France about the tariff, but only on pure food regulations.

Jim Sherman, the Republican candidate for Vice-President, was the leader in forcing through the steal for extra mileage by the Republican members of the 58 th Congress on the ground of a constructive recess that never occurred.

Does the foreigner pay the tax on wood pulp and print paper, or is it only on steel products, cloth, shoes, glass, sugar, lumber, etc., that he pays our taxes for us? Any Republican can answer this question.

When Fairbanks dallied with those cocktails he began to strike the political toboggan and then added to that he began to count quorums in the Senate to help the Wall Street interests even the Republican managers were compelled to drop him.

It is estimated the Taft family has a hundred and fifty million dollars, and if so there is no reason he will not run well next November. Then Sherman, the candidate for vice-president, has a wad. That’s what stirs patriotism nowadays. In Abraham Lincoln’s time it made no difference.—Crown Point Star (Rep.). Yes, its the dollars of the millionaires, the trust beneficiaries, that makes things move in the g. ■o. p. camp. No one will dispute this, Bro. Wheeler.

Probably no nomination was ever made for the presidency of the United States that created less enthusiasm over the country than that recently made by the g. o. p. at Chicago. As some of the more outspoken republican papers have truly stated, not one in a dozen republicans wanted Taft, and the party will go into the campaign with the same degree of enthusiasm that the democrats felt over the nomination of Parker four years ago. •

Joe Cannon is in a tight place. He is discredited by the result of the Republican National Convention. He is marked for slaughter by the Roosevelt-Taft machine, and someone else will be selected to wield the Speaker’s gavel who will be more subservient to White House influences. It is evident that the disintegration of the Republican party of Lincoln has come at last which is due to its degeneration. What can be expected of the centralization process that the young blood has inaugurated? The people will never be satisfied long with that and we may soon expect the g. o. p. to retire from the political arena unwept and but few mourners to sing its requiem.