Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1908 — SILLY CLAPTRAP. [ARTICLE]

SILLY CLAPTRAP.

The “boiler plate” political matter sent out by the republican state committee devotes considerable metal to Louis Ludlow’s false and silly articles in the bankrupt Indianapolis Star on the local - option planks of the democratic and republican platforms. Among this “rot” published .in the last issue of the Rensselaer Republican we find a sentence, alleged to have been uttered by a “temperance worker” named Rohrer of Berne, Ind., in which he favors the county unit local option and says that the township and ward unit, as proposed by the democrats, “requiring an election to be held in every ward and township would be a costly burden upon the taxpayers.” The democratic plan, as stated in the platform, is to retain the present remonstrance laws and enact a local option law, allowing the people of a city ward or township to vote upon the question at a special election or to remonstrate, as .they choose. No doubt some wards and townships would prefer to use the remonstrance and thereby there would be no election held therein, but under the county unit plan an election would have to be. held in every voting precinct in the entire county. Now what do you think of Rohrer’s logic or of Ludlow, the Star editors or of the editors of the “boiler plate” who give out such silly buncomb as this? What do you think of the\ intelligence of republican editors, of the Rensselaer Republican, for instance, who win publish and such clap-trap as this? The proposition that the democratic ward and township plan of remonstrance or election, as the people choose, will be more expensive than the w republican county unit plan, where an election mast

be held in every precinct of every township and city in the county, is too plain a falsehood to even talk about. The readers of republican papers are not all fools and these editors are making a mistake in assuming that they are.