Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1908 — TWO OF A KIND. [ARTICLE]

TWO OF A KIND.

The New York Tribune says: “One of the most significant and gratifying features of the Republican victory on Tuesday is the demonstration that there are ne groups of American voters that can be traded in and delivered wholesale. The most discredited politician in the United States today it Samuel Gompers. He has been doing business for the last four years under fraudulent pretenses.” We have another of the same kind here in Indiana. Probably this most discredited man in the State is Rev. E. S. Shumaker. Supt. of the Anti-Saloon League, who undertook to deliver that organization wholesale into the Republican camp. The serious thing about Rev. Shumaher’s fiasco is that his partisan efforts and damnable misrepresentations,' have probably killed an organisa-. tion that was accomplishing a splendid work on nonpartisan lines. His' frantic efforts to deliver the votes to Watson made the Dems- ■ cratic members mad and bis failure to deliver made Republicans mad; and wholesale desertions are threatened on the part of both.—White County Democrat.

Thomas R. Marshall, governor, wfil go into office in January under obligations to no man for financial assistance In the campaign. After he was nominated he announced that he would pay all expensed; and under no circumstances would he accept financial aid. He paid the political assessment and, though he visited every county and almost every hamlet, he paid his own railroad fare and hotel bills. —Francesvilie Tribune. (Rep.) Ed Simon, the democratic candidate for representative In Luke eounty, has filed suit in the circuit court of that county to contest the

election of his republican opponent, jE. W. Wtckey. It is alleged that some 4,000 “Hunyaks” were faaturalized and voted by the republicans of Lake county In the late election, which aCQounts tor tihe tremenduous majority that party received there. These men were naturalized and voted like so many cattle. They do not know a word of English and are the most ingnorent foreigners that land on our shores. Half of them, it is said, had not been in this country long enough to yote, but were voted Just ; tjhe same. It is understood that the illegal votes of this “'bunch” are the principal grounds for the contest.