Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1910 — WHY THEY CALLED FOR THE BIG OYSTER. [ARTICLE]

WHY THEY CALLED FOR THE BIG OYSTER.

Speaking of Roosevelt’s promised speech in this state in behalf of Beveridge, a newspaper item savs:

"The Democrats are asserting with considerable sarcasm that the Republicans are going' to attempt u> stampede the voters by bringing former •presidesit Roosevelt into Indiana in hopes that he will be able to take their minds off the high cost of living and other matters for which the Democrats intend to force the Republicans to answer.*’

How can Roosevelt take the people's minds off the “high cost of living and other matters?' K'xvsevelt himself is very largely to blame for the-e.things. His admihistration. next to that of Taft, wa- the most extravagant in the of the country. It was not only extravagant; it was enormously wasteful. Not a word has Roosevelt ever said in favor of economy. Not a thing did he ever do or -ay to reduce the cost of living. Under his administration the food trust openly grew and thrived without a hand being raised to stop it. The people of Indiana are not “daffy” about Rooosevelt. Just now he is merely ]•> -ked upon as “toler-able-size" oyster of Ovster Bav.