Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1908 — THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR “BEFORE AND AFTER." [ARTICLE]

THE INDIANAPOLIS STAR “BEFORE AND AFTER."

[October 27.1 No doubt Mr. Marshall is confident that if Benjamin Harrison were alive today he would be a Bryan and brewery Democrat. [October 29.] Whoever tries to vote a ticket for Taft and Marshall is endangering Taft a* well as Watson. Only those should do this who are more anxious to protect the brewers in their political domination and enable the brewery-saloon to have its own way than they are to gain the benefits Involved in the election of Mr. Taft to the presidency. [October 80.] With al) of the saloon forces lining up for Marshall and personal liberty, it would not be surprising if the friends of temperance ana decency should unite on the other side. [November 5.] Mr. Thniaz R. Marshall owes his election as Governor of Indiana to his own fine qualities as a man and a citizen. All that the Republican organization could do against him and all that the breweries and saloons did for him could not swerve from him the suffrage of his fellowcitizens in sufficient numbers to defeat him. He was not elected because of the saloon issue, but in spite of it. The votes won for him by appeals to "personal liberty” were more than offset by the votes that by those appeals were alienated. He was prefered to Watson by voters enough who believed In him and distrusted Watson. . It is not a victory for the breweries or the saloons, and these institutions would make a fearful mistake to so regard it. The thing that turned the tide was Mr. Marshall’s Irreproachable and amiable personality. There is an element of justice and right in this result that should give heart to 'every man who is trying to lead a life of rectitude and honor. It shows that devotion to duty and to higher ideals of life will build up for-a man a reputation and a good name among his fellowmen that the vicissitudes and mutations of politics can not take away. When Mr. Marshall was nominated The Star gave itself the pleasure of saying: If Mr. Marshall should be elected Governor, there is not a right-think-ing or right-principled citizen of Indiana but would rejoice that a man of such fiber and grace of character would sit four years in the executive office of the State, To this sentiment we now cheerfully again subscribe; and with it we offer the prediction that whatever hopes have been entertained of his betraying the office of Governor into the hands of unworthy elements in our community life are doomed to cruel disappointment. He will serve the people to the best of bls ability and with a clear conscience; and in that effort he will have the support of this newspaper, wherever that support can in justice and truth be extended. •2 other words, the Star was saying what it knew to be false all ■during the campaign regarding Mr. And • this in twentieth century journalism. If the people can place no dependence upon what a newspaper says of a candidate ifor office, can they depend upon anything it says at any time or upon any subject? Why should a man be wilfully Med about simply because he is a candidate of his party for an, office? « The Indianapolis Star is in the hands of a receiver and is being operated under direction of the United States courts. Have not the people a right to expect some degree of fairness and .honesty in its utterances under such conditions at least? Why say things about a man who is a candidate for office that cannot be said with equal truth and fairness after the campaign is over? One of the first reforms needed j in this country, it would seem, is that compelling our metropolitan papers to. be more honest in their statements regarding such nffitters as these. If a man is a rascal before election he is none the lezs one after he is elected to office, and so far as The Democrat is concerned it will never wilfullymake a charge against a candidate for office that it cannot just as truthfully make after the election Is over. To our mind there is something more involved In a campaign than mere weight of numbers, and the fact that one party wins or the other wins does not change the principles fought for. Might does not make right, no matter under what circumstances the might has been secured., Such editorial hyprocricy as that of the Star has imitators elsewhere, and it is time a* little reform, was made in that line' of journalism.

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