Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — INDIANA ALMOST REDEEMED [ARTICLE]

INDIANA ALMOST REDEEMED

Taft’s Plurality Too Small to Boast Much About.

DEMOCRAT GAINS

ON STATE AND DISTRICT TICKETS—DEMOCRATS GET MOST THE STATE OFFICES, ELECT 11 CONGRESSMEN, WILL HAVE A MAJORITY IN THE LEGISLATURE AND THE SELECTION OF ONE IT. S. SENATOR. Great Goias Are Made Also In County and Township Offices All Over the State, and the Democracy of Indiana Is In Better Shape Than for J Many Years. While the result of the election of Tuesday so far as the national ticket is concerned is to be deplored, the democrats of Indiana have made gains that they may well feel jubilant over, and if all other counties had made as much gain as Jasper the electoral vote of this state would have gone to Bryan and As it is the republican plurality will be very small compared I With some 93,000 four years ago. Thomas R. Marshall’s plurality fpr governor will be about 15,000, and while the republicans are claiming the election of Goodwine, Sims, Blllheimer, Hadly and Myers, for . Lieutenant governor, Secretary of state, auditor and judges, respectively, by small pluralities, the democrats think that the entire state ticket was elected. The official returns are not as yet in from all the counties, but the republicans concede that lhe democrats elect 11 of the 13 congressmen, a gain of eight, Mid that the next legislature will atand 69 republicans to 81 demovats on joint ballot, insuring a democratic successor to. James A. Nemenway, for U- S. Senator, and if they hold the advantage they bow have in the next election they will also replace Senator Beveridge with a democrat. We are now assured a guarantee bank deposit law, a corrupt practice act, compelling the publication of contributions to campaigns before election, and a thorough cleaning of the State House of the barnacles that have taken, up their residence there since 1896. John C. Blllheimer will be made to disgorge, the books will be opened and an- administration that will be a «redit to the great state of Indiana will be inaugurated the day Thomas R. Marshall takes his seat as governor.