Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1909 — If Colonel Durbin is actually a [ARTICLE]

If Colonel Durbin is actually a

candidate for the senate to succeed Beveridge, what ’does he propose to do about his old friend, Colonel Hanly? If Colonel Durbin mounts the dapple gray county option hobbyhorse, Col. Hanly will bestride his milk-white prohibition steed. The color of the Beveridge animal is not definite, but he has been entered for the go- It ought to be a funny race. Indeed, it will be a funny race—while it lasts.

Senator Beveridge did not vote in favor of a motion to make the tariff commission (which is to advise the president about how and when to put on that 25 per cent additional tax) a non-partisan body. It will be made up of Republicans and “protectionists.” Senator LaFollette was the only Republican who voted to make the commission nbnpartisan. Senator Beveridge is not really a tariff reformer— not nearly as much of a one as he wants the people of Indiana to think he is. Just watch him line up for the Aidrich bill on its final passage.

In the senate the other day Senator Dolliver of lowa, a Republican, said: “Nobody has any faith in what we are doing here.” And that is true. In the entire history of tariff legislation there n'ever has been anything so disgraceful, so absolutely shameless and impudent as the proceedings on the present bill. Everything has been done for the "protected” interests and not a thiug for the people. How could anybody have faith in what is being done in Washington? Everyone knows that the Republican majority never intended to make, or even try to make an honest revision of the tariff.

The Jeffersonville reformatory concerning which there are scandalous disclosures has been run strictly as a Republican institution. The board of trustees has been composed for two years of two Republicans and two other men appointed as Democrats. This is called a "bipartisan” board. Prior to two years ago the board was made up of three men, two Republicans and one Democrat. This was called a “non-par-tisan” board. But whatever the name, 90 per cent of the employes, from the superintendent down, are said to be Republicans. It should not be so under a bl-partisan law, If the spirit of the thing means anything^—which It evidently did not in this case.

The terms of the custodian and engineer of the state house expired the middle of April. These officials had been appointed by the Republican governors for twelve years under the terms of an act passed in 1907. Governor Marshall, convinced that he had at least equal authority to make these appointments, issued commissions to two Democrats. Thereupon State Auditor Blllhelmer and Secretary of State 81ms, proceding under an act of 1895, which Governor Matthews had vetoed and which no one considered of any validity (although the redolent Owen

had printed it in the official acts of 1895) appointed two Republicans. And now the supreme court has decided that an act which neither Governor Mount, Durbin nor Hanly would recognize, which no subsequent legislature heeded, and which no administrative officer thought valid until a Democratic governor was elected, Is all right. By this decision the Republicans will continue to hold a large amount of state house patronage.