Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Deeatur. Auditor of State WM. H. O’BRIEN, Lawrenceburg. Treasurer of State W. H. VOLLMER, Viacennes. 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, RushvHle. 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, LogansporL 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 _|R. M. B. FYFE, Wheatfield Tp. Commissioner Ist District WILLIAM HERSHMAN, Walker Tp. Commissioner 2d District ,C. F. STACKHOUSE, Marion Tp. . , County Councilmen—-Ist District. GEO. O. STEMBEL, Wheatfield Tp. 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. All of fine talk about organizing a new party conies from Republicans and shows better than anything else could how deep the dissatisfaction in that party is. When a party loses the confidence of its own rank and file it is about at the end of its rope.

Ex-Senator H emeu wav show ed what he could do in the First district, where he lives. Toe congressional convention over which he presided nominated a “regular,” indorsed Taft and the Pavne-Aldrich tariff law, and said that Beveridge is a “brilliant orator.” There are plenty of men wlho are not Republicans that the convention could have said are “brilliant orators.” ,

Whatever of good was accomplished at the late session oi congress was due to the votes of the Democrats, aided by a few insurgent Republicans. But when these insurgents refer to tie fact they declare that “We did it” and give the Democrats no credit whatever. On the contrary they turn about and abuse the men without whose aid they would have looked like a plugged nickel and would have amounted to no more. * .

Now that Roosevelt has promised to speak in tftus state on Oct. 13 (ominous number), the Republicans are greatly disturbed. They don't see how he is going to satisfy both factions and they aredesperately afraid that he wrth't satisfy anybody. On the contrary tfhey feel that he will offend either the “regulars" or the ‘insurgents.” and make things worse than they are now, if such is possible. Isn’t it awful?

The men now managing the Republican state campaign have made a canvass of the state, it is said, and have found that only 25 per cent of the Republican voters agree with President Taft on the tariff law. And ye. more than half of the Republican congressional conventions Slave indorsed both Taft and the tariff law. The state organization, however, is under Bever idge management, while the districts look after their own affairs. The question is, whether the tail or fihe dog will do the wagging.

It has come out not only that j. Frank Uanly wrote to Senator Beveridge asking him where he stood with respect to 'the countv option law. hut that Beveridge answered hat he stood with Hanly on that Proposition. As Hanly is the principal leader of the Anti-Saloon League, which hopes, through its ‘‘non-parti-san" campaign, to control the next legislature, what is more probable than that the league will elect Ilanly to the senate if it suceeds in getting a Republican legislature? But if Beveridge and Hanly occupy the same ground, what difference would it make? .

The short speech of John B Peterson, the democratic nominee for congress from this district, delivered at the democratic county convention in Tippecanoe county last Saturday, which is copied in this issue of The Democrat, has the right ring to it and demonstrates that Mr. Peterson is right oil the real democratic issues. A man of sterling character, well liked bv all who know him and enjoying a large aequaintence in the north end of the district especially, Mr. Peterson will give Crumpacker a race that will not end until the votes are counted out on the night of November 7.

In view of the fact that filie Republican press—or a part of it —is trying to make it appear that certain proposed legislation was defeated at the last session because the legislature was Democratic. the Columbia City Post very properly calls attention to the plain and well-known truth that fine last legislature had a Democratic house and a Republican senate. Every bill had to pass both houses before it could possibly becomej a law. The Democratic house did not kill any good bill. On the other hand some of the best measures proposed. including the election reform bill. were killed by the Republican senate

A dispatch irorn Beverly, Mass., which is Mr. Taft's summer capital, says that "Senatoi Beveridge i> thoroughly divorced from the Republican organization.” Not long ago Mr. Taft said that he was glad to know that the insurgents “still claimed to' be Republicans,” The later dispatch seems to indicate that, at least in Beverly. Mr. Beveridge is considered as being wholly outside tine breastworks of the regular organization. In Indiana, however, the senator and his friends "still claim” to be the only genuine Republicans there are and the WatsonHemenway - Fairbanks - Durhir crowd are spurious and counterfeit.

Speaking of the doings of tine Republican state organization, the. Indianapolis News says that John F. Hayes, secretary of the committee (and also secretary to Senator Beveridge), “is rtow working out a plan by which he hopes to readh all of the doubtful voters of the state, and which will call for the appointment of something like 37,(XX) sub-com-mitteemen, who will work under £he 3,700 precinct committeemen.”.. But there may be a difficulty. Can Mr. Hayes find tihc 37, 000 dependable insurgents necessary to help the 3,700 dependable precinct committeemen? Can he do it even with the aid of those past master insur-

gents, William Dudley Foulke, Lucius B. Swift and John Overmever? >

With respect to the sale of what, are ordinarily called intoxicating liquors, the Democrats of Indiana are committed tp local option by townships and cities through a modification of the present county option law. That the Democratic plan is sound in principle- and that it is more conductive to temperance - than fine law now in operation will be admitted by all persons except those of the extremist views. But because the Democrats took this sensible stand the Anti-Saloon League announced that it must “work tooth and nail for the Republicans.” The Anti-Saloon League is not a temperance organization. It is merely a political organization which sec;ms to exist chiefly for the benefit of its high-salaried officers.