Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1910 — DEMOCRATIC CALL. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC CALL.

To the Democrats of Indiana, and all those who desire to co-operate with them: By order of the eDmocratic State Committee, the Democrats of Indiana, and all who desire to co-operate with them, are invited to meet in delegate convention at Tomilson Hall, in the city of Indianapolis, Indiana, April 27 and 28, 1910, for the purpose of adopting a platform and to nominate candidates for the following State offices, towit: Secretary of State. Auditor of State. Treasurer of State. Attorney-General. Clerk of the Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Insttticction. ' State Statistician. One Judge of the Supreme Court for the Second iDstrict. One Judge of the Supreme Court For the Third District. Three Judges of the Appellate Court for the Northern District. Two Judges of the Appellate Court for the Southern District. The convention will be composed of 1,747 delegates—necessary to choice, 8 74 —apportioned among the several counties of the State, as follows: (Tenth District.) Benton ................. 8 Jasper 8 Lake 30 Laporte 29 Newton 6 Porter 9 Tippecanoe .... .. . .......26 Warren 5 White 12 The delegates from the respective counties composing the several Congressional istricts will meet Wedneday, April 27, I‘tlO, at three o’clock p. m., at the following places: Tenth District—State House, Room 120, third floor. At each of such meetings the following officers and members of committees will be selected, viz.: <>ne member of the Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization. ()ne member of the Committee on Credentials, ( )ne member of the Committee fin Resolutions. (hie Vice-President of the (i »tivent i« m. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. - l ire Committee on jßtiles and Permanent Organization will meet in Room 371, Denison Hotel, immediately after the adjournment of District-meetings. The Committee on Credentials will meet in Room 372,

Denison Hotel, immediately after the : adjournment of District meetings. The Committee on Resolutions will meet in Room of Ordinary, Denison Hotel, immediately after adjournment of District meeting- .. The delegates will assemble at Tomilson Hall at 7:30 p. m., to receive the reports of the committees, except Committee on Platform. April 28, 1910, the Convention will reassemble in Tomilson Hall at 9 o’clock a. m., for the adoption of a platform and the nomination of candidates. STOKES JACKSON, Chairman. \VM. F. MOORE, Secretary. The Washington correspondent of the Indianapolis Star has taken quite an interest in the platform to be adopted by the Democratic state convention. It seems altogether possible ’that the Indiana Democrats who are chosen as delegates to the convention will arrange the platform. And whe nit is arranged, the work will be well done.

The postoffice department of the government is managed by Mr. Taft’s political managed, Hitchcock. For many years—and recently more than ever—the postoffice department has been a political machine. The service rendered to the public is merely incidental. It is. no wonder, therefore, that this departmnt spends $17,000,000 a year more than it takes in.

The Republican congressional committee is going to stand by the Payne-Aldrich tariff law and make its campaign on that issue. At least that is what comes from Washington. If it is so, what will the honorable senator himmittee do about it? What will the Beveridge newspapers do about it? And above all, what wlil the honorable senator himself do about it

Notwithstanding the fact that Senator Aldrich admits that his party has been and is spending $300,000,000 a year more to run the government than is necessary, the cost continues to increase. Secretary of State Knox has just been allowed SIOO,OOO additional for extra officers’ salaries in the state department. That department has also been allowed $237 for shoeing the carriage horses used by the officials. And so on.

'“Plans are on foot to use former President Roosevelt as a eats paw to pull the reactionary chestnuts out of the fire in this year’s campaigns.*’ So says a dispatch from Wellington.' But it will not be hard to use Roosevelt. He has stood by the standpatters before and he is not likely to desert his friend Taft in the present emergency. And he always got along well enough with Cannon and Aldrich. Roosevelt may "insurge” on his own hook and for his own purposes, but he is not the sort of a politician who will put himself out

to help others who have got their feet out of the party traces. Speaker Cannon is quoted as saying that it is “better to have a Democrat in congress than an insurgent or progressive.” This is all right as far as it goes, but it stops short of the real truth, which is that it is better to have a Democrat in congress than a Republican insurgent, progressive or regular. And in this no disrq%>ect is meant. Only a Democratic congress can correct the evils that the people complain of. The Republican party has shown that it cannot be/ trusted.

There is every reason for believing that the Democratic state convention of April 27 and 28 will be the best and most harmonious, as well as the biggest, ever held in the state. Not a single sign of any sort of a storm cloud can be discovered on the Democratic horizon. Even the Republican political weather prophets have been unable to find a basis for predicting anything threatening in the Democratic outlook, though they have tried to scrape up something to offset their own dismal forecast. 'Flic Democrats of this state are not afraid to hold a two-day’s convention, and they will therefore put in April 27 and 28 in the work of organizing the convention, adopting a platform and nominating a ticket. On the other hand, the Republicans, who have heretofore held a two-days’ convention, this year condense all their business into one day. They do this in order to cut out speeches and other things of which they are fearful. Mr. Beveridge’s friends are in control of the Republican organization and they do not propose, if they can prevent it. to give the other faction any opportunity to make embarrassing speeches or to introduce troublesome resolutions. \\ hether the Taft-Hemenway- \\ atson-Goodrich-Durbin contingent will tamely submit to this sort of muzzling remains to be seen.