Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1908 — Tenth Congressional District Nominating Convention. [ARTICLE]

Tenth Congressional District Nominating Convention.

The democrats of the Tenth District will meet in delegate convention on Wednesday, July 22nd, 1008, in the city of Monticello, Indiana, at lijfo p. m., for the purpose of nominating a candidate for congress to be voted for at the November election in 1908. The delegates 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 . White 10 Total... ....... .... 98 JAMES K. RISK, Chairman. JAMES W. SCHOOLER, Sec.

The Republican national platform not only proposes to give steamship subsidies and to amend the antitrust l«w so that railroads may organize pools, but It promises to guarantee “reasonable profits” to the trusts. Everybody knows what the trusts’ idea * “reasonable

profit” is—everything that can be squeezed out of the people.

That "prosperity” wave what was scheduled to start out on its political mission July 1 seems to have met a counter-current somewhere. At any rate it hasn’t arrived anywhere yet.

In 1/9 07 the state tax board assessed the-Western Union Telegraph company $3,328,362. This year the same company was assessed at only companies were assessed at $980,189. This year they are assessed at only $551,619. The common taxpayer, however, will make up the difference.

When the Republican state committee and the state candidates met in Indianapolis the other day a “batch” of them were photographed in the attitude of "laughing,” and they were so pictured in the Indianapolis Star, the official court Journal. The picture was accompanied by a carefully prepared diagram, which explained that they were “laughing over their prospective prospects.” Without that explanation no one would have guessed it and certainly no one believed it. It was all too obviously painful.

The non-partisan New York Realty Journal says: We have contended, as reference to our editorial columns will prove, that there no longer exists any antagonism in the ranks of legitimate business men of the country to Mr. Bryan, who has won the entire confidence of the business community. Mr. Bryan is only opposed by the members of the special privileges party, as is President Roosevelt. The special privileges party is made up of a membership that thrives on Illegitimate business interests, as opposed to the legitimate business interests of the country.

A number of farmers are talking of buying automobiles, probably not to hitch up to the breaking plow but to raise a cloud of dust just like city folks, and then when it conies to paying taxes on them they are a great deal cheapen than horses { But here is a little friendly advice: Don’t sell your horses, as you might need them occasionally to hook up to the family chariot when you want to be sure to get there, or you want to be sure to keep an appointment. The engine of these animals does not give out or the tires bust, as they frequently do on autos, or if they do you usually know it before you leave home.

The Marion county grand jury is still grinding out new graft indictments. In the last batch Is one against the Republican county treasurer who went out of office last January. The grand jury charges that he forgot to leave behind him something over $20,000 which belonged to the county. Marion county, like the state, is “great and rich,” and has “grown in wealth and populaition,” but the people of that community object to being robbed, nevertheless. When you hear anyone trying to justify public extravagance on the ground that the people can stand it, you can just set it down that the people are being skinned somewhere along the line.

The Chicago News takes as a foregone conclusion that the Denver platform will' have a publicity plank as to campaign funds. The deliberate rejection of such a plank at Chicago, it thinks will be heard of often during the coming campaign. It goes on to say: The American people, during recent years, have taken long strides in the direction of real political sagacity. They have caught glimpses of the workings of the financial machinery of national through revelations In the life insurance inquiry, and those brought about by the pique of Harriman. Next fall, when the political fighting gets hot and the voters exhibit curiosity as to the sources from which come the sinews of war, if Mr. Bryan dexterously shall pry open the secret of campaign revenues he win place to his credit a notable achievement of permanent value to the nation. .• ’1 ' '

The same departments of the state government which cost $431,000 a year under Governor Matthews’ adminßtrations cost last year, under Governor Hanly, $925,470, which is more than double. This bears out the claim made by the present custodian of the statehouse when he asked the last legislature to raise his salary from $1,500 a year to $2,000 a year. He declared that his salary should be increased because “the official force in the statehouse had doubled.” The legislature not only gave the custodian the lift he asked for, but made a lot of new jobs about the statehouse so as to force him to earn it. Although the state was desperately hard up, the legislature was so free in making new offices and raising the salaries of old onCe, that the amount of the cost, according to the Indianapolis News, a republican paper, footed up $320,000. And this was in the state government alone. t