Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1909 — WATSON COMMENDS MARSHALL. [ARTICLE]

WATSON COMMENDS MARSHALL.

At the recent meeting of the tSate Association of County Commissioners, at Terre Haute, the Hon. James E. Watson, late Republican candidate for governor, spoke very frankly on two or three subjects. Among the things he said was this: “I w’ish to publicly approve the course of Governor Marshall in striving not to invade the rights of the legislature or the people and to keep within the lawful bounds of his office in the discharge of his duties. I am a believer in state rights, and in that respect I am an old-school Democrat. I believe that the national government should not do what the states are able to do and that the states should not do what the counties are able to do.” But that was not all. Mr. Watson directed the following shot at one Mr. Roosevelt: “If the government had followed the recommendations of a certain illustrious gentleman who Is now hunting down in Africa, the nation would have been plunged into a debt far greater than any debt ’n the history of any nation. Billions upon billions of donars were asked for the carrying on of conservation and similar projects by people from all sections of the country, and the gentleman I refer to was In favor of granting the appropriations.” All of the above is a striking approval of the course of Governor Marshall in at least two particulars, which are that the governor not only adheres strictly to the constitution and the laws, but he Is opposed to public extravagance and waste in any form. These facts he aas demonstrated since he has been tn office. •£'