Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1908 — ONLY A PARTY AFFAIR. [ARTICLE]

ONLY A PARTY AFFAIR.

The people will make no objection to a special session if it is called to consider the state’s affairs, and not the affairs of the Republican party.—Rockville Tribune. In his statement setting forth the reasons for calling the special session. Governor Hanly- mentioned four things, viz., (1) the correction of a blunder in the appropriation law passed by the Republican majority at the regular session; (2) additional authority to deal with the so-called “night riders”; (3) the passage of a county local option law; (4) the repeal of the Vincennes claim law. Not one of these things created an emergency requiring a special session unless it w-as the one relating to the appropriations. And as to the trouble caused by the blunder in the appropriation law, Governor Hanly admitted in a speech at Attica that he could have got plenty of money to run the state’s affairs until the next legislature met in January at no cost except in the way of interest. The real reason for calling the extra session was the quarrel of the Republican factions over the county local option proposal —a party affair and not a Btate affair at all —and it will probablycost the taxpayers SIOO,OOO.