Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1910 — CALL FOR CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION. [ARTICLE]

CALL FOR CONGRESSIONAL CONVENTION.

The democrats of the Tenth! Congressional district and all others who de-ire to co-operate with them, arc directed to select delegates in each county in' the district for the congressional convention which will be held in Hammond, on WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1910, for the purpose ot selecting a candidate for congress for said district. • d ' The basis of representation will be one delegate for each 200 and one for each" fraction of 200 over 100 votes east for Thos. R. Marshall for governor in 1908. Jasper county is entitled to Eight. Delegates in said convention. C. J. MURPHY, District /Chairman.

The staterdent made by a paid officer of the Anti-Saloon League that the members of that organization (if it has any real members), should '‘work tooth and nail for the Republicans” in thU dampaign did not come as a surprise. Neither did the later announcement, of the head officer of the league that the wonc would be done locally and in a. “non-partisan” way.' The proposition to fore? Democratic canr —the legislature to stultify themselves by declaring that they will follow the league instead of their patty is merely a part of the general plan to work tooth and nail for the Republicans. v

"Hark! From the tombs a doleful sound/’ Hon. John Qveri myer of North Vernon; IncL, has resurrected himself and pushed •out into the campaign in the interest of Senator Beveridge. The > Hon. John is - noted for that high, [[degree • perspicacity which e*. liable? hint to'attach himself;: to : the los-inar side. ... p . . Pr-. -i lent Taft n A only spends r .>. appropriation pf y S2S';QOO a ■ year f r traveling experise-. but tor more J.is out. And yet he said something abc ut it being necessary to ' out down expense. But of ■.course- he meant tne otner peoi pie’s expenses, in order that they | might have something left with ! which to pay the exorbitant taxes levied upon them by the : government and the tariff-fed i trusts. ■

A letter to the Indianapolis News from Washington says that the standpatters in are making a heroic effort to spread broadcast the impression that the act of the house in vu ing to appropriate $250,000 for the maintenance of the present tariff board for another year means that something really is to be done in the way of a tariff investigation. Privately, however, says the same article, the standpatters “are congratulating each other over the way they have fooled the public." But the public has not been fooled. The preposterous tariff board will do nothing except spend the $250,000. That, is all it is for—that and to fool the people, who refuse to be fooled even a little bit.

In the Marion county primary election last week the Republican legislative slate which was advertised as being “undoubtedly } for Beveridge," was turned down and a slate backed by “Big Chief" Joe Kealing political manager for the Jrairbanks-'Hemen-way faction, was nominated. 1 Others of Beveridge's friends j who were candidates for other • offices were also defeated by men j backed by the other faction. Of ; course the successful candidates | say that they are also friendly to I the senator, but they vjri’l hardly Ibe believed unless they furnish j affidavit- *o that effect arid give a substantial bond to back up.the i affidavits. A- a re-ult of the primaries the feeling between the t\v i factions is' more bitter than l ever—and that is saving a good ] I deal. -