Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1908 — NATIONAL TICKET. [ARTICLE]

NATIONAL TICKET.

Far President WILLIAM J. BRYAN. For Vice-President, JOHN W. KERN. STATE TICKET. Governor < THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Lieutenant-Governor FRANK J. HALL. Secretary of State JAMES F. COX. Auditor of State MARION BAILEY. Treasurer of State JOHN ISENBARGER. Attorney General WALTER J. LOTZ. Reporter Supreme Court BURT NEW. Judge Supreme Court M. B. LAIRY. Judge Appellate Court E. W. FELT. State Statistician P. J. KELLEHER. Supt. Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY. DISTRICT TICKET. Member of Congress WILLIAM DARROCH, of Newton County. State Senator, Counties of Jasper, Newton, Starke and White, ALGIE J. LAW, of Newton County. Representative, Counties of Jasper and White, GUY T. GERBER of Jasper County. COUNTY TICKET. Treasurer .... ALFRED PETERS of Marlon tp. Recorder CHARLES W. HARNER of Carpenter tp. Sheriff WILLIAM I. HOOVER of Marion tp. Surveyor FRANK HARRIOTT of Union tp. Coroner DR. A. J. MILLER of Rensselaer. Commissioner. Ist Dist. THOMAS F. MALONEY of Kankakee tp. Commissioner 3rd Dist. GEORGE B. FOX of Carpenter tp. TOWNSHIP TICKETS. Carpenter— GEOßGE BESSE Trustee; JAMES H. GREEN, Assessor. Gillam— JOHN W. SELMER Trustee. Miarion - EDWARD HERATH, Trustee; SAMUEL SCOTT, Assessor. Union—ISAAC KIGHT Trustee; CHARLES U. GARRIOTT, Assessor. Hanging Grove —WM. R. WILLITT. Trustee; CHARLES LEFLER, Assessor. Walker — DAVID M. PEER, Trustee; JOSEPH FENZIL, Assessor. Jordan—WM. WORTLEY, Trustee; FRANK NESSIUS, , Assessor. Newton— E. P. LANE, Trustee; JOSEPH THOMAS, As- . sessor. 1 Barkley— THOMAS M. CAL- • LAHAN, Trustee; JOHN NOR- > MAN, Assessor. ’ Wheatfield—S D. CLARK, ’ Trustee; HENRY MISCH, As- > sessor. >..---J . . . . - _

ff making depositors safe by guaranteeing their deposits will make speculators out of bankers, why hasn't it had the same effect on bankers who have been compelled to guarantee the redemption of uncurrent, or In other words, bank trills that are in circulation of bank that have failed or quit business for other reasons? And what are bank

examiners doing alt of thia time that they can not detect bankers that are speculating?

The objection is continually made that the democratic plan of guarantee of bank deposits will compel the conservative, honest banker to pay the losses of the "speculator and dishonest banker.” Will some of the wise men who are mouthing this silly, pusalanlmous piece of idiocy kindly Inform us what bank examiners have been doing all these years that these dishonest scoundrels are still permitted to remain in the banking business? And if these bank examiners haven’t sense enough to detect these scoundrels who are speculating with the bank's funds, what have these hon-' est, conservative bankers been doing all these years that they have not exposed these scoundrels themselves, and thereby saved their friends from ruin, and their own good names, as well as the banking business Itself from reproach?

Republican leaders in Delaware county were dumfounded last week when they found that prohibitionists were fighting this so-called "county unit local option," and profess that they can not understand why they should do so. The Reason is plain. The idiotic position the republicans have taken that a county can be voted "wet,” or in other words, a majlrlty of the voters say that they want the county commissioners to issue license under the law, and the next morning a minority who are not satisfied with the “wet” verdict can start out and with a remonstrance and upset the verdict of the day before, does not appeal to the average man very forcibly. It the majority is going to rule and a vote has been taken to determine what that majority want done, the average man will acquiesce in the decision whether it is to his liking or not.

Old Joe Cannon—and we have no apologies to make for using this disrespectful term rather than that of "Uncle Joe,” so generally used in refering to this subservient too) of the trusts, for we have no more respect for Old Joe Cannon than we ever had for that other old fraud, Old Alf McCoy, whom so many people of Jasper county were swindled by and whose vulgarity was only equalled by Old Joe Cannon—seems to have started a boomerang when he attacked W. J. Bryan’s wealth and property holdings. Mr. Bryan states that his wealth is rather less than $150,000, every dollar of which he came by honestly through his writings, lectures and personal efforts, and he then turns on old Joe and asks if his reported $5,000,000 has all been saved out of his salary as congressman which office or some other pap-suck-ing job he has held for the past 40 years? As a matter of fact Mr. Bryan's personal assessment as shown by the tax duplicate in his home’county Is $82,625, while that of his traducer, old 40-years-ln-office millionaire Joe Cannon, is but $15,150! Not all republicans are taxdodgers, but some of them evidently are.

We doubt if the Vermont election made the impression that it ought by all tradition and that it was hoped it would. The Republicans got their big majority, but the point is that the American people are not so impressed with Vermont as they ought to be according to political managers and forecasters. If there was the big Republican majority, the Cleveland Plain Dealer jJoints out that the Democrats gained strength in the Legislature, and the paucity of the Independence party has been demonstrated, if Vermont is to count. If 1200 is the Vermont measure of “Independence" the indications are that there will not be enough to hurt elsewhere. But more than this, we have little faith in Vermont as an indicator. It gets little of the Immigration - that flows Into the country generally, and changes slowly from year to year the way of looking at things and doing them. Vermont utterly failed to forecast the landslide for Roosevelt four years ago, nor did it give a pointer to the rout of Bryan eight years ago. Two years ago It elected its Republican Governor by the small majority of 15,000. Yet this was followed by the sweeping Republican victories later in the same year In the congressional election. So we doubt Vermont as a barometer or thriller or whatever use in this way politicians wish to put it to.—lndianapolis News (Rep.)