Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1910 — Page 2

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THE JfiSPER COUNTY DEMOCRAT. f. E.BIBCOCK.EOITORMDWffIfB. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered as Second-Class Matter June 8, 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer. Indiana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311* Published Wednesdays and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday Issue 8 Pages. Advertising rates made known on application. SATURDAY, APRIL 2, 1910.

DEMOCRATIC CALL.

To the Democrats of Indiana, and all those who desire to co-operate with them: By order of the Democratic 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-Generai. Clerk of the Supreme Court. Superintendent of Public Instrucctlon. 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 Couit for the Southern District.

The convention will be composed of 1,747 delegates—necessary to choice, 874—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 6 White 12 The delegates from the respective counties composing the several Congressional istricts will meet Wedneday, April 27, 1910, 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.: One member of the Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization. One member of the Committee on Credentials. One member of the Committee on Resolutions. One Vice-President of the Convention. One Assistant Secretary of the Convention. The Committee on Rules and Permanent Organization will meet in Room 371, Denison Hotel, immediately after the adjournment pf 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 meetings. 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. WM. F. MOORE, Secretary.

CALL FOR COUNTY CONVENTION.

Notice is hereby given to the Democratic voters of Jasper County, to meet at their usual voting places on Saturday, April 16, 1910, at 1:30 o’clock p. m., for the purpose of electing delegates to the County Convention to be held in the East Court Room at the Court House in Rensselaer, on Thursday, April 21, 1910, at 1:30 o’clock p. m., to nominate candidates for the following County offices, to-wit: Clerk of the Circuit Court, County Auditor, County Treasurer, County Sheriff, County Assessor, County Surveyor, County Coroner, Commissioner First District, Commissioner Second District, One County Councilman from the First, one from the Second, one from the Third and one from the Fourth Councilmanic Districts, Three County Councilmen-At-Large. and to elect eight delegates to the State Convention to be held at Indianapolis on Wednesday and Thursday, April 27 and 28, 1910, as follows: Two delegates from each Commissioners’ district and two delegates-at-large. You are further notified that delegates will be selected at the County Convention for the various District Conventions, time and place of which will be designated in later calls. The basis of representation to said county convention is one delegate and one alternate for each ten votes or fraction over five votes cast for the Hon. 1 homas R. Marshall for Governor in 1908, as follows: Barkley, East 7 Delegates Barkley, West 7 Delegates Carpenter, East .... 9 Delegates Carpenter, West.... 6 Delegates Carpenter, South . . 7 Delegates Gillam 6 Delegatee Hanging Grove .... 3 Delegates Jordan 9 Delegates Keener 4 Delegates Marlon, No. 111 Delegates Marlon, No. 2 ....14 Delegates Marlon, No. 37 Delegates Marlon, No. 4 .... 9 Delegates Milroy 3 Delegates Newton 8 Delegates Union, North 7 Delegates Union, South 8 Delegates Walker 8 Delegates Wheatfield 9 Delegates N. LITTLEFIELD, Chm. JUDSON J. HUNT, Sec.

The Jefferson Day banquet at Indianapolis on April 13 promises to be the biggest thing of the kind ever held in the state.

The executive committee of the Democratic Editorial association met in Indianapolis last week and determined to hold the summer meeting of the association at Frencty Lick Springs on June 23, 24 and 25.

Press dispatches state that the resolutions adopted by the republican congressional convention at Lafayette were prepared in Washington and O. K’d. by President Taft. This is centralization with a vengeance.

It is said that if the wealth of the public domain itj Alaska could bi divided it would give SBO,OOO to every voter in the United States. And it was this wealth that the Morgan and Guggenheim syndicate were in a fair way to get under a complaisant Republican administration.

The Hon. Charles Warren Fairbanks is home, but how does he find his machine? It has been temporarily taken off the track, to be sure, but is it being kept in condition for use when the occasion arises? These are things that Mr. Beveridge and his mechanicians will want to know about.

As we predicted, the majority of the new committee on rules is made up of friends of Cannon and he will continue to be the whole thing. The only way to crush Cannonism was to remove Cannon, as the Democrats proposed and could have done if the “insurgent” Republicans had not had an attack of “cold feet.”

Has anyone ever heard of Senator Beveridge saying anything against the stupendous extravagance practiced by his party in the national government? Has he ever raised his voice against the ship subsidy grab? Has he opposed the Wall street central bank scheme? Has he ever said it was wrong for the government to give one man power to tax another man for his own private profit? If so, when and where?

Chairman Lee of the Republican state committee has been “sounding” leading men of the party as to their views on the platform which must be adopted next week. Mr. Lee, in answer to his written request, has received many expressions of opinion, but he declines to make them public. However, we have the authority of a leading Republican paper for the statement that “there is a wide variance of opinion” in these expressions. And it may well be. As political matters go, it would be hard ter find two Indiana Republicans who can agree on the questions now uppermost in the public mind.

a long time it has been generally understood that Robert G. Tucker, Indiana correspondent of the Cincinnati Enquirer, could have the Republican nomination for secretary of state if he would take it. But Mr. Tucker, who has an intirhate knowledge of political conditions in Indiana, has announced decisively that he will not be a candidate. Since he has made this statement there has been a good deal of skirmishing by the Republican managers for a man willirfg to head their ticket. Several persons who have been asked to take the nomination have refused to consider it. And none can blame them.

THE TENTH DISTRICT’S PLATFORM.

Realizing to the full the difficult nature of the tariff problem which is presented to the Republicans of Indiana, we are disposed to deal charitably with any efforts that may be made to solve it. But the platform adopted by the Tenth district Republicans yesterday is, as far as it deals with the Payne bill, har,dly less than ludicrous. Here is the plank: We recommend the Payne law as a substantial step In the fulfillment of the pledgee of the party, and while there may be inequalities in some of the schedules, they are largely due to a want of trustworthy Information respecting the cost of production in this country as compared with the cost of pro-

duction in foreign countries. The trouble with the Payne law is not that there “may be inequalities in some of the schedules,” but that there are not simply inequalities, but whole schedules that are crammed with exorbitantly, high taxes; jokers and industry destroying discriminations. Yet the convention was not sure even that there were “inequalities.” The law is bad because it is a burden on the people, and the product of a great abuse of the taxing power.

But its defects—which it is admitted “may* exist—are, we are told, “due to a want of trustworthy information,” etc. This declaration, if admitted to be correct, is simply a plea of guilty; though to be sure it was not so intended. For congress was bound to inform itself, was charged with the duty, in this most important matter, of getting “trustworthy information.” To legislate without thr fullest information is itself a crinle against the people. It was known that the tariff law to be enacted would affect every citizen of the United States, every industry in the country. Our Republican friends have told us over and over again that there is no more difficult and delicate task than that of making a tariff. It is one calling for the highest skill, a skill which, such has been the claim, only Republicans possess. And yet it is now admitted that the finance committee of the senate, the ways and means committee of the house, the great Republican tariff experts, and finally the Republican majority in congress, prepared and pushed through this bill without having acquired “trustworthy information” to guide them. But the men responsible for this law were guilty of a positive offense against the people. For they were without information because they did not want it, did not seek it, and actually repelled it when offered. During the course of the debate in the senate the Democrats demanded the publication of a report made to the state department, at its request, by the German government, covering this very question of comparative cost of production. Senator Aldrich de-j nounced the action of Germany as an “impertinence,” though her government had acted in response to a request from our own. Pressed still further, Mr. Aldrich said that the report was being “translated,” and that the reason it had not been presented was that the translation had not been completed. Here, then, was information immediately at hand. Yet it was repelled. Instead of being guided by the facts bearing on the principle in accordance with which the law was supposed to be framed, they were guided wholly by “experts” who sought the extreme of protection for themselves —such gentlemen as Whitman and Littauer and the gentlemen of the Arkwright Chib!.. As the plan was to give all the protection possible, the gentlemen who made the schedules repelled all information that showed that little was needed. So their, ignorance was deliberately cherished. Therefore, the plea of the Tenth district Republicans can not be allowed. When they say that there was a lack of “trustworthy information” the people will reply that such information could have been had if it had been desired, that congress has no right in such important matters to legislate without trustworthy information. Undoubtedly there will be a good deal of straddling in this campaign. But the straddling will have to be more skillfully done than in this case. The obvious truth is that the law is bad, known to be bad by the people of Indiana. Perhaps the Republicans of the Seventh district were wiser in failing to adopt any platform at all.—lndianapolis News.

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