Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1910 — NO DANGER IX INDIANA [ARTICLE]

NO DANGER IX INDIANA

In a speech before the Young Men’s Democratic club at Kansas City last week Ex-Governor Folk, of Missouri, said:

"I have been in most of the Western states in the last few weeks and found everywhere numbers of Democrats who were joining the insurgents in the Republican party. Right here is the danger to the Democratic organization, and the sooner this fact is recognized the better. This movement toward the insurgent element is not confined to one state, but in Oregon, California. and Washington I heard the. same story.”

There is no movement of the kind referred to by Mr. Folk in Indiana. If such a tendency exists in any other state it certainly is not—should not be participated in by real democrats. Every democrat ought to be bright enough to know that the insurgency movement among Republicans is good only to the extent it has moved toward the reforms in government that the democratic party 'has, been demanding for a generation, at least. But the insurgent leaders declare that they are still republicans and assert with great positiveness that they do not mean to separate themselves from the republican party. And no doubt this is true of the insurgent leaders. But it is a different matter with the insurgent rank and file. They will realize after awhile — and perhaps already realize — that they can get through the Democratic party a great deal more than they can possihly get as insurgents. Naturally they will flock into the Democratic party —the best and most intelligent of them. A fine spectacle therefore, will any so-called Democrat cut who forsakes his own organization for less than a mess of pottage.