Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1909 — THE MASSES ALL RIGHT. [ARTICLE]

THE MASSES ALL RIGHT.

Louis Ludlow, the gifted and entertaining Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Star, is working hard to create the impression that thp Democratic party has gone to pieces because certain senators, elected as Democrats, have voted contrary to the Democratic national platform. It the Democratic party were dependent for its existence upon these recreant senators Mr. Ludlow i would be justified in his conclusions. But it is not so dependent. The senator or representative who votes contrary to Democratic principles is merely an irritating political excresence and as such he will be sloughed off. A man who can not be trusted to be a Democrat on the tariff issue can not be trusted to be a Democrat at all. But the great masses of Democrats the country over are sound to the core on the tariff question and they will take care that those who are not in accord wfth the party’s attitude are put where they can do no harm.