Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1910 — STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State. < , LEW G, ELLINGHAM, Doeatur. Auditor of State WM. H. O’BRIEN, Lawrenceburg. Treasurer of State W. H. VOLLMER, Vincennes. Attorney-General THOMAS M. HONAN, Seymour. Clerk of the Supreme Court J. FRED FRANCE, Huntington. Superintendent of Public Instruction ROBERT J. ALEY, Indianapolis. State Geologist EDWARD BARRETT, Plainfield. State Statistician THOMAS W. BROLLEY, North Vernon Judge of Supreme Court, Second District DOUGLAS MORRIS, Rushville. Judge of Supreme Court, Third District CHARLES E. COX, Indianapolis. Judges of Appellate Court, Northern District JOSEPH G. IBACH. Hammond. ANDREW A. ADAMS, Columbia City M. B. LAI RY, Logansport. Judges of Appelate Court, .Southern District EDWARD W. FELT, Greenfield. M. B. HOTTEL, Salem. DISTRICT TICKET. For Member Congress, Tenth District JOHN B. PETERSON, of Crown Point. COUNTY TICKET. Clerk FELIX R. ERWIN, Union Tp. Auditor A. BEASLEY. Carpenter Tp. ■ Treasurer ■ - e

Sheriff WM. I. HOOVER. Marion Tp. Surveyor | Assessor ■ BERT VANERCAR, Kankakee Tpd Coroner UR. M. B. FYFE, Wheatfield Tp. Commissioner Ist District I WILLIAM HERSHMAN, Walker Tp. ■ Commissioner 2d District C. F. STACKHOUSE, Marion Tp. County Councilmen—lst District. GEO. O. STEM BEL, Wheatfield Tp. 2d District A. O. JJOORE, Barkley Tp. 3d District L. STRONG, Marion Tp. 4th District GEORGE FOX, Carpenter Tp. At Large GEO BESSE, Carpenter Tp. JOSEPH NAGLE, Marion Tp. J. F. SPRIGGS. Walker Tp. ” The Crown Point Register (republican) says of the nomination of John B. Peterson of that place for congress: "‘The Democrats are to be commended upon the wisdom shown in their choice.* Mr. Peterson, is undoubtedly the strongest man they could have selected. He has considerable ability as a speaker and a campaigner and as a far seeing politician has few equals in the state. He is a personal friend of Governor Marshall and -in many respects the characteristics of, the men are-similar.’’

And now several of the republican newspapers of the Tenth district have discovered that J. B. Peterson, democratic nominee for congress, is a “corporation lawyer” because he is generally employed in the lawsuits of the big firms doing business in .Lake county when they have a case in court. Well, as a well known local democrat remarked to The Democrat a day or two ago, “the corporations don’t generally employ a fool,” and if John B. Peterson is employed by the big companies doing business in Lake when they are in need of a lawyer, it is a compliment to his ability and no disparagement to his honesty. To say that a lawyer who defends a murderer must be in sympathy with mur-

der is as logical as to say that one who takes a case'’ from a corporation is in sympathy ’with corporation methods. There is not a lawyer t£e country but wougfr-like to take employment in the big lawsuits, but all do not possess the ability to get in on • them. The fact that only the [best lawyers are employed does 1 not signify that they are all ras;Cals- <•r that they are Owned by ‘ the corporations. They 7 take .employment from them, to be [sure, as a part of their business, [but from what we have heard of I John B Peterson we do not believe he is a man who ever tried to serve two clients, on opposite sides, at the same time, and if elected to displace E. D. Crumpacker he -will serve the interests of the whole people all the •time he is in congress.

The Republican says that the Brook Reporter has admitted thMt it lied when it recently stated that it had been informed, that the Republican had written letters to neighboring papers admonishing them to at least remain neutral in the bfige graft scadal in this county. Most people who read the Reporter’s reply to the Republican would scarcely take it as an, apology. The Reporter given its authority for the >tory as the -editor of the Goodland -Herald, and it looks as though it was now a question of veracity between the . Reporter man and the Herald man. So far as The Democrat is concerned it don’t give a rap whether the Republican did or did not attempt to secure backing in out-,-ide towns in its efforts to defeat the ends of justice and create a public sentiment against Prosecutor Longwell and his honest efforts to serve the people , rather than the politicians. But inview of the position the Republican has taken all through this bridge graft matter it would not be at all surprising if it had tried to get outside aid in bolstering up its weakness. The writer first heard this story at Kentland, a few days before it appeared in the Reporter, and at least two other Rensselaer people whose word is above question heard the story there, but not at the same time it was told to us.