Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.

For Treasurer ALFRED PETERS of Marion tp. For Recorder CHARLES W. HARNER of Carpenter tp. For Sheriff WILLIAM I. HOOVER , of Morion tp. For Surveyor FRANK GARRIOTT of Union tp. For Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER 1 of Rensselaer. For Commissioner, Ist Dist. THOMAS F. MALONEY of Kankakee tp. For Commissioner 3rd DlsL GEORGE B. FOX of Carpenter tp.

A Taft organ sorrowfully admits that Mr. Bryan ill receiving a larger newspaper support than he ever did before. All of the trust and monopoly organs, however, are still opposing him. They are working for Mr. Taft with their usual venom and mendacity.

Former Attorney-General Frank S. Monnett of Ohio, a republican and a Roosevelt man both times the latter was elected, an officeholder under Roosevelt as an employe of the Interstate Commerce Commission and always a trust fighter, says: “I am now a Bryan Democrat and will make speeches in Ohio and other states dealing with the monopoly question." Citing the "wool trust" as an example, Mr. Monpett says it has forced down the price of raw wool and increased the price of the finished produce several hundred per cent to the consumer, which is a characteristic of all the trusts. Mr. Roosevelt called Harriman an "undesirable citizen” after they had had their falling out. But Harriman evidently did not look undesirable to Mr. Taft when he selected Sheldon as treasurer of the national committee at the request of Harriman's "right-hand man,” Cromwell. It seems to be clear either that Roosevelt has changed his policies or that Taft does not approve of them. At any rate, it is beyond question that Taft does not stand tor what some people have understood to be Roosevelt’s policies. The platform made by- his convention and his present close alliance with the "interests” are ample proof of that fact.