Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET. [ARTICLE]

STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

For Governor THOMAS R. MABBHALL. For Ueateaant-Goveraor FRANK 9. HALL. For Secretary of State JAMES F. COX. For Aatttor of State MAUD* BAILEY. > For Treasuer of State JOHN IBENBABGEB. For Attoney Geaaral WALTER J. LOES. For Reporter of Sapreaw Cow* BURT NEW. For Judge of Sspreme Court M. B. LABY. . For Jadge of Appellate Court E. W. FELT. For State Statistician ’ P. J. KELLEHER, i For Sept Pabllc boCracttoa ROBERT J. ALEY. DISTRICT TICKET. 9 For Member of Congress WILLIAM DARROCH, of Newton County. For State Senator, Counties of Jasper, Newton, Starke and White, ALGDK 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 CHARLES W. HARNER j of Carpenter tp. ! For Sheriff WILLIAM L HOOVER of Marlon tp. For Surveyor 1 FRANK GARRIOTT of Union tp. n For Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER of Rensselaer. For CnnmlnMante, let Diet, u THOMAS F. MALONEY < es Kankakee tp. | For Commissioner Brd Dist. GEORGE B. FOX of Carpenter tp.

The Hearst convention at Chicago this week is generally regarded as a farce, and the part Messrs. Thomas L. Hizgen (of Massachusetts) and John Temple Graves (of Georgia) the nominees, will play in the presidential campaign will be infinitesimal.

Thd degrading dog fight precipitated at the Hearst “convention” at Chicago Wednesday about midnight, when J. I. Shepard of Kansas attempted to place W. J. Bryan in nomination, furnishes a pretty good index to the character of the “delegates” there assembled to act as mid-wife to the Independence party. The work done by men who belong to the profession to which these gentlemen’s actions indicate they belong, is best done in the nighttime, and while they fill space at a convention as well as anybody, they come much cheaper. The hour selected for this scandalous free fight was very well timed indeed. Isn’t it possible that the profits derived from this becoming “unmindful of the common rules of business honesty and fidelity, and of the limitations Imposed by law upon their actions” constitutes the principal prosperity of the last ten years, about which Mr. Taft makes so much noise in hi* speech of acceptance? This is the republican way of saying that cheating, lying, short-weights, the green-goods method of doing business that had become the every-day practice of “some prominent and influential member* of the community” had been discovered, and that discovery was hurting the g. o. p. So there must be a great dust raised, to

make the people think that “some prominent and influential members of the community” were going to get what was coming to them. Have any of you heard of any of them going to jail?

The Democrat wishes to call the attention of its readers to the article in another column regarding the increase of saloons in the cities, taken from the report of the Indiana Bureau of Statistics. There are hundreds fewer saloons in the rural districts, driven out by the remonstrance law, and if this anti-sa-loon movement was kept out of politics and local option confined to the city or township—which is true local option—it is only a question of a short time until all the rural districts of the state become “dry.” The action of the Anti-Saloon League, however, in alllgnlng itself with a political party and fighting for “local option” with the county as the unit, is bound to have a reactionary effect And if the republican state ticket should be successful and a county unit local option law be enacted, many counties which are now “dry” outside the cities would all be “wet” in every part, the wet vote in the cities overbalancing the dry vote in the country and smaller towns. The democratic position in this matter is the right one, and should prevail.