Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1908 — THE USUAL MR. HARRIS. [ARTICLE]

THE USUAL MR. HARRIS.

When the Republican managers in Indiana are in direful need of the opin ion of a lawyer to bolster up some campaign contention they always turn to the Hon. Addison C. Harris. And they never turn in vain. Mr. Harris served for four years as minister tc Austria and made a study of the lan guage of diplomacy—of how to say a thing very frankly without meaning a word of it. So, therefore, while he winks the other eye, Mr. Harris tells the Republican managers that, in his humble judgment—speaking as a loyal Republican who is anxious to help his party out of a hole and with the hope that what he says will not be tpo long remembered—the double, back-action scheme of county local option elections and township and ward remon strances will stand the strain of the law. For thus risking his reputation as a lawyer Mr. Harris will receive tfie warm thanks of the party managers, just as he h; ; in the past when he has been called on tor similar services. But Mr. Harris's opinion will not fool anybody.

Mr. Watson’s figures on state finances are just about the most wonderful things that anyone ever saw.or heard. A respectable manipulator of the game of the three shells and the little pea would be ashamed of such blundertag.