Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 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 Marion tp. Recorder CHARLES W. IIARNER of Carpenter tp. Sheriff WILLIAM I. HOOVER of Marion tp. Surveyor FRANK GARRIOTT 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. Marion 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 NEfIBIUS. Assessor. Newton—E. P. LANE, Trustee; JOSEPH THOMAS, Assessor. Barkley— THOMAS M. CALLAHAN, Trustee; JOHN NORMAN, Assessor. Wheat field —S. D. CLARK, Trustee; HENRY MISCH, Assessor.

The Methodist ministers made a raid on the legislature yesterday in the interest of the county local option. If the rounders Of the hated brewers still had those legislators "drunk and dressed up” when they got there the meeting must have been interesting, especially if the fallen legislator happened to be

from the same district the preacher came form.

It requires some gall to ask the democratic members of the legislature to assist In passing a county local option bill, a measure they are opposed to, to a man, and for the further reason that the party that is pretending to approve of this same measure have sent some members to Indlanafiblls who have got drunk and arrfe making beasts of themselves and disgracing the great state of Indiana, and therefore can not be depended on for anything. After classing the saloonlsts, brewers, and democrats In one class it Is very presumptuous on the part of republican newspapers to ask democrats to assist in pulling their chestnuts out of the Are. Democrats will let them pull their own chestnuts from the fire and If they get burned that is their business.

The bankrupt Indianapolis Star offers a new reason why the county option bill should be passed by the special session, and here It is: “If It is true, as reported and generally credited about town that, in their desperation to obstruct the passage of the county option, the brewers are hiring rounders to keep members of the Legislature in a state of intoxication and supplying the funds for prolonged debauches to this end; If it Is true that they are exerting themselves in this way and every other possible way to retain members of the Legislature here in .Indianapolis, so that they will not go home to meet again the aroused anti-saloon sentiment of their temperance communities, then it may be best for the decent members of the Legislature to combine and pass this law, merely as a protection to the good name of Indiana.’’

Keep in mind all the time it is not democrats that are being made drunk, but republicans, members of that grand old party of God and morality, that defender of the home, of the children, that arch enemy of the saloon, the party of J. Frank Hanly, Charles Warren Fairbanks, Albert Jeremiah Beveridge and James A. Hemenway! Think of it! Legislators of the party of high moral ideas associating with brewers, and getting so drunk that they can’t go home and meet up with their sober, God-fearing, saloon-hat-ing constituents over Sunday! Ain’t that awful! If this is the kind of an influence county local option exerts on legislators themselves, are not democrats justified in eschewing this pharasaical pretense on the part of the republicans and stick to a scheme that has proven to do what they claim for it in Oregon, in Kentucky, in Georgia, in Texas and in fact wherever it has been tried?