Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1910 — COL. DURBIN’S ICE WATER. [ARTICLE]

COL. DURBIN’S ICE WATER.

The “back from Elba” business does not seem to fit the Roosevelt return. He happened to land on June 18, the anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. Is it possible that he was contriving to play the part of a Blucher to Taft’s Wellington? Have Napoleon Beveridge, Deliver, LaFollette, et al. thought of that dire contigency? As soon as he landed in New Work Mr. Roosevelt declared he was “ready and eager" to help solve problems that must be solved. As a matter of cold fact there is a growing feeling in this country that most of our national problems can be solved better without- Roosevelt’s help than with it. But, however that may be, the split in the*ex-president’s party presents a matter on which 1 he can work for a long time. X ■ . The Chicago Daily News, m an article on good government makes the point that it is not the liquor interests alone that sometimes support unfit men for office merely because they happen to be right on the liquor question. On the contrary, the News says that the Anti-Saloon League has “indorsed men of shameful public records” for the sole reason that stich men would stand by the league on its hobby. So it seems, therefore, that a candidate’s fitness for an office can not be determined by the fact that he is indorsed by the Anti-Saloon League. This, however, has been known in Indiana for a long t

“I do not know what to make of the . Indiana situation. Ibelieve, though that insurgency is on the wane.”—-ExGovernor Durbin. 1 here has been so much of that sort of thing said by members of the "old guard" that it must be getting on the nerves of the men in charge of the Republican campaign. « The Republican papers of the state in their funny efforts to distract attention from the awful, gaping and constantly widening split in their own party, have about “blown their heads off,” after the fashion of overworked gas wells. They are beginning to understand that the Democrats not only understand their business, but that; in solid phalanx, they are marching straight ahead to a big victory next November over all opposition. Not only did John Overmeycr, of North Vernon, Indiana, resinrect himself in the interest of Mr. Beveridge's campaign but her: comes 'a great and good professional reformer—none greater or gooder. as he himself admits—one Benjamin B. Lindsay, of Denver. Colorado, and projects himself into the' Beveridge ..gocart. With such allies as these, what use will the Beveridge state organization have for such small fry as James E. AVatso.n. ExSenator Hemenway. Ex-Gover-nor Duybin and others like them ?

Tw.p ago/ when the An- ! ;i-Saloon League was making a special effort to swell its campaign. fund in order to wage its own peculiar part of the fight the Democratic ticket, it was charged that the brew s had contributed a million dollars —SLOOO.OOO. count ’em—-to the Democratic state committee. This year the charge is that the brewers have raised $350,000 to be put into the Democratic treasury. Of course neither of these stories had any foundation, but why the variation ? Does the A.S, L. need less money this year, or does it have less imagination?

To the intense chagrin of the ardent followers of Senator Albert Jeremiah Beveridge, and to the members of the Republican

campaign. Colonel Winfield Taylor Durbin has weighed in, with a statement that he is unable to make out the political situation in Indiana. Then by way of rubbing it in, the former governor added that “insurgency is on the wane in this state.” If he could have waited until after the election for such an estimate he would not have become such a disturbing factor. But to admit that insurgency is on the toboggan, or anything like it at this stage of the game, when the acknowleged leader As the party has subscribed to it as his chief stock in trade, bids fair to prove too much for the average Beveridge worker. The colonel has been labeled so many times, as one of the most adroit politicians in Indiana, and one of the best judges of political conditions, that difficulty is being .experienced in attempting to discredit what he says..... The views expressed by. Colonel Durbin are held by many business men and members of the old organization who are declaring that if the Republicans carry the >tate it will be due to the support Of the men who .agree with, the president that the Payne-Al-drich bill Js the "best ever." The inference drawn by manv from such statements as Colonel Durbin made is that the old guard of stalwarts does not intend to lie down and roil, over for the benefit of Senator Beveridge or anyone else who’ happens to be making a fight on the insurgent platform.—Cincinnati Enquirer.