Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1910 — STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of Staff: LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Decatur. 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. LAIRY, 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 Sheriff WM. I. HOOVER, Marion Tp. Surveyor Assessor BERT VANERCAR, Kankakee Tp. Coroner OR. M. B. FYIfE, Wkeatfield Tp. Commissioner Ist District WILLIAM HERSHMAN, Walker Tp. Commissioner 2d District. • C. F. STACKHOUSE, Marion Tp. County Councilmen —Ist District. GEO. O. STEM BEL, Wheatfield Tp. m 2d District A. O. MOORE, 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 Hon. Jim Watson has announced that he will speak in Indiana twice a day for a month during the campaign and in every speech he will extoll the PayneAldrich tariff law. All of this he will do without the consent and jover the protest of Mr. Beveridge’s state committee.

One reason given for Mr. Taft’s spending so much public money traveling about is, that he wants to get away from the fights that, the regulars and insurgents are constantly indulging in on his .doorsteps. He may find it necessary, however, to kick the insurgents for whom he has no use, anyway—into * the Potomac river.

It is charged that Senator Beveridge on the day of the Republican state convention, sent a telegram to a friend in Washington saying that he had ‘‘kicked the stomach off of the PayneAldrich tariff bill.” And now the Hon. Jim Watson, backed up by the Taft administration, is .going to try to kick it back on again by making two speeches a day fpr a whole month in the Indiana campaign. With Beveridge kicking it off and Watspn kicking it on that stomach is bound to suffer some damage—to say nothing about what the Democrats will do to it. i

The Republican managers, it is said, are “fairly gritting their teeth” over the popularity of Governor Marshall’s- administration of state affairs. It is said further that they are using a micropscope in trying to find something, in his administration to criticize or attack. But they might as well stop the wear and tear on their Teeth and put the microscope on the shelf. The governor told the people that his sole ambition was to be an oldfashioned coastitutional executive and they know' that he has made good/ ‘ Senator Aldrich, the real leader of the Republican party, says that the. $250,000 appropriated by the combined vote of the standpatters and insurgents for the support of Mr. Taft’s tariff board will be used to “justify” the Payne-Aldrich tariff law'. In other words, the people’s money will he taken and used not in behalf of the people but to bolster up a law made especially for the favored interests. And this is done, too, in the face of the fact that* tire Payne-Aldrich law is so drawn that for every dollar of public revenue produced by it five dollars of private graft are levied upon the people undei its protection by the trusts and monopolies that procured its passage. It is to be the lasting credit of the Democrats in congress that they voted against appropriating that $250,000.

What James E. Watson says is not always important. On the contrary much that he says is very unimportant. But as he was for many years a member of congress and two years ago was the Republican nominee for governor and is now the recognized head of the “regular” or standpat Republicans in the state, some of his utterances may be regarded as significant. It is well known that Mr. Watsipn doesn’t like the Democratic party—and the Democratic party doesn’t care —hut he likes a certain element in his own party still le.s%. That element is now in control of the state organization and it claims to stand for “insurgency.” In a speech to the Wisconsin Republicans Mr. Watson said that “insurgency” was worse than the Democratic party, and he also remarked that “the Democratic mule of insurgency should not be grafted onto the Republican elephant.” These things are mentioned merely to show how formidable the split in the Republican party is and how bitter the fight between the factions is going" to be.