Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1909 — IT WON’T WORK. [ARTICLE]

IT WON’T WORK.

The Republican politicians of Iniana—that class of them who are attempting to guide their party through the morass into which their factional quarrels and President Taft have cast them—have hit upon the brilliant idea of trying to make it appear that the Democrats are quarreling among themselves. The Indianapolis Star, Republican state organ, claims to have discovered a condition of warfare among leading Democrats over two things, vis., how the state committee shall be organized next January, and what shall be said in the next state platform on the liquor question. A publication of this kind has only one object and that is to distract attention from the Republican

split and the causes which led to it It is doubtless true that, when the time comes, there will be some spirited contests for positions on the state committee, but they will merely be friendly rivalries for the honor of serving the party In a position of great responsibility. It is doubtless true, also, that there will be differences of opinion aa to subsidiary platform declarations. There always are such minor differences. But the Democrats of Indiana, now 1 as heretofore, are in perfect accord upon Democratic principles and issues. There Is not the slightest reason for doubting that when the Democratic party is in the field stripped for a fight it will present an unbroken front to a disorganized and discouraged opponent. No Republican newspaper or politician should waste time thinking that the public can be blinded to the Republican beam by any amount of talk about a mythical Democratic mote. It won’t work. *