Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1908 — THE WATSON FINANCES. [ARTICLE]

THE WATSON FINANCES.

Charles E. Hughes, Governor of New York, has been making speeches in this state for the republican party. So far he has failed to explain what relation the campaign contributions/* made by the railroads of his state had to his veto of the two-cent railroad fare bill, or the Coney Island B-cent street car fare law. To sustain his present contention they had none, but who believes that? The Chicago Tribune, the RecordHerald and Inter-Ocean stated yesday morning that 20,000 school children of Chicago were slowly starving to death; 5,000 go to school without anything to eat in the morning, and many of them beg refuse, even dead fowls and rotten frnit to eat! This awful condition ha. been found to exist after a search ing investigation by the school au thorities. Prosperity thou art * jew—a—a—liar.

The Indianapolis Methodisi preachers, at their weekly minis terlal meeting this week, showec just how sincere they are for pro hibition of the liquor traffic. A retired minister of their faith, wh< is a prohibitionist, offered a reso lution providing that the membert of the association should attem the afternoon session of the legisla ture where the democratic bill pro viding for an amendment to the constitution—for the people to vote on an amendment —for state wide prohibition was pending and that they lend all assistance in their power toward its passage. A storm of protest went up from the assembled preachers and a half-dozen of them jumped to their feet at once to enter a resolution .The sincerity of this body will be questioned from this time on by those who really thought they favored putting a stop to the sale of Intoxicating liquors in the state rather than assisting the republican party. If county prohibition is a good thing, why is not state wide prohibition a better thing?

”Who finances James E. Watson’s which Dan G. Reid of the Indianapolis Star, Republican state organ, is a ahining light? Is it the ship subsidy combination? Is it the Standard -Oil company? Does help come from Joe Cannon, who, while a member of uongress on $5,000 a year, has man *aged to make $2,000,000? Can James -A. Hemenway, who entered congress twelve years ago a poor man and is now reputed to be rich, spare a little for Watson? At any rate, where d'.d (and does) he get it? It is said that his nomination cost him between $50,000 and SIOO,OOO. There was a scandal In the Republican state convention about the purchase of delegate:; There was scandal in many places, no tably Fort Wayne,. Anderson, Muncie Terre Haute, South Bend, Marion and Evansville, about the election of delegates, and it was said that “money flowed like water." Where did it come from? Who put it up. Watson says he is a poor man. If so. who are the people who are backing him? And why are they backing him?