Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1908 — HANLY, THE DEMAGOGUE. [ARTICLE]

HANLY, THE DEMAGOGUE.

The Indianapolis News, which has stood by Gov. Hanly when I practically every other republican , newspaper in the state had deserted him in disgust, has at last reached the point where it, too, has seen through the flimsy sham of the chief executive of this great state who is using all the machinery of the state ofliceß in his frantic endeavors to prevent an “opening up of the books.’* Listen to this from the editorial columns of Wednesday evening’s News: In one of his speeches Governor k' Hanly spoke of “tearing the mask from the face of this pretender who te going about in his endeavor

to deceive the people and whom it is my purpose to expose.” The “pretenddr” is Thomas R. Marshall, the Democratic candidate for Governor and a clean and honest man. There is no excuse for such language as the Governor uses concerning him and certainly no reason why the Governor should be so sensitive about Mr. Marshall’s law practice. Possibly even the firm of which the Governor used to be a member took some cases which would now seem objectionable to the Governor. We think that It would be well for the people to ask themselves why it is that the present executive is so extraordinarily zealous in his advocacy of Mr. Watson’s election. It may be that they will conclude, if they read the speech of Mr. Holtzman printed in the News of yesterday, that the Governor would prefer to have the Deaf and Dumb School business inquired into by an administration friendly to himself. In his desire to “tear the mask from the face” of Mr. Marshall, the Governor should not forget that his administration is quite as much on trial as Mr. Marshall is. This is a point which the people would do well to keep in mind.

The speech of Mr. Holtzman, to which the News refers, had to deal with the new Deaf and Dumb School building, which is now in course of construction and Mr. Ijjoltzman showed that there had been some peculiar tiansactions in this matter, and an investigation of the hints of graft and extravagance by the opposite party might show Gov. Hanly up in a bad light. No wonder he wants to keep these things from the people by elecing the man of whom he is alleged to have written personal letters before the nomination of Watson, saying: “Whatever you do, don’t support Watson for governor; the saloon keepers of Indianapolis and the brewers of the state are working tooth and nail to secure Watson’s nomination.” Why this change of front now? Is the Governor afraid to have the opposite party look over the official records of his administration ? The Governor’s present attitude has a suspicious look.

GOVERNOR HANLY’S LETTERS.

Gov. J. Frank Hanly, who was so active in sending out letters opposing the nomination of Jim Watson for governor, because “the saloonkeepers and brewers were ■ working for Watson,” is once more 'engaged in this letter-writing pastime. Now he is urging the temperance people to support Watson because, he now alleges, the saloon men and brewers are opposing him! Many of these letters have been received here and in other parts of the county, and we presume all over the state. One of these, sent to a gentleman at Lee, Ind., was mailed us Thursday moring, together with the reply he made to the governor, and several more were shown us by republicans here who had received them but who nevertheless will not vote for Watson. We regret that we have not the space to give the governor’s letter as well as that of the reply of the Lee gentleman, for it is a gem. We can only give the reply, and here it is:

Lee, Ind., Oct. 27, 1908. Hon. J. Frank Hanley, Dear Sir: Receiving a letter from so distinguished a personage as the governor of so great a state as Indiana, comes as a great surprise and especially so at this time, as it comes so near the election and embaces so many things that it scarcely would give a man that was not thoroughly posted time to investigate and act on a knowledge gained by personal effort. However. I never act on suggestions in such matters simply because some great man has made them, and if I was not already informed 1 would take time to inform myself before I voted. But 1 am thoroughly informed on the saloon problem and also as to what the republican party has done for the cause of temperance and prohibition and why they have done it, it being simply legislation to safeguard that party against the agitation of the temperance people.

But the saloon system which has been so great a cause of suffering | and degradation to the people of i the United States was the work of the republican party, a high licensed system to help to raise money to pay off the national debt, supposed to have been caused by the war of the rebellion In the 60’s; claimed to have been made and bonded in accordance with article 1, Sec 8. of the Constitution of the United States, but Instead was a bonded system by which the rich have been made richer and the poor poorer. A system that gives the wealth produced by labor to capital, while the wealth producers themselves have but a meager existence. Capital control of labor was the object of the bonded debt and it has well answered its purpose. Governor, you have caught me napping. You have not written so as to give me time to make plain

and give you all the many schemes made and laws enacted by your party that has brought on the Impoverished condition of the maasev How congress at one time apl proprlated the people’s money to publish literature to send abroad to induce foreign labor to come to this country. That the banking system based upon bonds enable capital to create a panic at will, etc., etc. While the saloon system has been no small factor in enabling the republicans to perpetuate their aboinnable system of corruption until the agitation of the prohibitionists and temperance people have driven them to the few temperance measures they have taken. Governor, your effort is weak, but weakness and blindness must surely be to those now in power during such conditions as now prevail to make possible the fulfillment of the prophecy of St. James. See ch. 5, 1-7. Respectfully yours,

L. E. NOLAND.