Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1910 — COUNTY TICKET. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY TICKET.

Clerk FELIX R. ERWIN, Union Tp. Auditor A. BEASLEY, Carpenter Tp. ■ Treasurer Sheriff WM. I. HOOVER, Marlon Tp. Surveyor . . Assessor . BERT VANERCAR, Kankakee Tp. Coroner _>R. M. B. FYFE, Wheatfield Tp. Commissioner Ist District WILLIAM HBRSHMAN, Walker Tp. Commissioner 2d District C. F. STACKHOUSE, Ration Tp. County Councilmen—lst 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. SPRIGG6. Walker Tp. The Vermont state election was held yesterday.

The SIB,OOO launch bought a few months ago for use during Mr. Taft’s summer cruise is now sent to the junk heap. What’s SIB,OOO anyway to a prosperity, high-protection administration. Uncle Joe Cannon said recently that “Beveridge would nfake an ideal peacock with just the * addition of a few feathers.” Which dpubtless, will not comment) Uncle Joseph to the pea- . cock constituency. Are the Republican candidates for congress .in this , state still under pledge to vote for standpatter Crumpacker—the candidate in the steel trust district for speaker (and provided, also, that he is elected ?) And if Cannon shall be tihe caucus nominee will they—if elected —'vote for him? These are questions in which the people are interested. Go after the crooks and I’ll help, just as I have done in the past," said Roosevelt at Buffalo. Will someone point out the par-

ticular crooks that Theodore went after “in the past?” It is only necessary to recall the things that happened while he was president to show how vain would be dependence upon this man, who evidently wants to be a candidate for a third term.

Senator LaFollette, ‘Wisconsin insurgent, declares flatly that President Taft is aiding the regular 5 Republicans in their various state fight§ to wipe out the insurgents. In Indiana, therefore, he is with the Hon. James E. Watson and the other Raders of the “old guard.” But what difference does that make so long as Dudley Foulke and Lucius B. Swift are standing by Beveridge?

In spite of .the fact that the Republican state platform doesn’t say a word about the liquor question, and makes no statement to indicate whether the county option law is to be preserved or repealed in the event that the Republicans control the legislature, the leaders of the Anti-Sa-loon League are still working “tooth and nail” for the election of Republican candidates. Are they doing this in the interest of Beveridge or Hanly—or both ?

John Hays Hammond, president of the National League of Republican Clubs and a friend of the president of the United States is charged with being interested in a scheme .to sell the government some kind of newly mounted gun at the modest little price of $25,000,000 —twenty-five millions, count ’em. The disinterested (?) patriotism which characterizes some of these "higher Up” Republican politicians is the marvel of the new century.

Shank, the Republican mayor of Indianapolis, follows in the tootsteps of Samuel R. Artman, Republican, law partner of J. Frank Hanly, and declares that the aristocratic Republican Columbia club of Indianapolis is a "blind tiger.” Senator Beveridge is a member of this club. In defense of the club it is said that it sells liquors to none except its members, that it could iiot take out a retail license if it wanted to do so, that it does not want to do so, and that it will continue to do business just as heretofore'.

"I will make the corporations come to time as I will make the mob come to time wherever 1 have the power. I will keep order on the one hand and insist on justice from the rich man and the -Corportion on the other,” shouted Mr. Roosevelt from an embankment near the Cleveland station. And it is the same old platitudinous vociferation, which, coming from him, is tommyrot and means nothing, unless it be that he is now making a preliminary campaign for a nomination for a third term. Words, words, words and still more words. That is the Roosevelt way. At another place he said: “Attack a man because he is crooked. If he is- poor and crooked attack him. If he is rich and crooked attack him."

Tlie claim of the Beveridgeites that a Republican legislature is necessary to prevent the Democrats from making an unfair apportionment of the legislative and congressional districts is pure poppycock. In an interview which has had wide circulation. Judge Charles E. Cox. Democratic nominee for the supreme court from the Indianapolis district, slroWs how it has been demonstrated that an unfair apportionment will not be allowed to stand, for constitutional reasons. Besides, it has been pointed out that if two Democratic judges are elected the supreme court will still have a majority of Republicans' on its bench. But above beyond all this is the certainty that a Democratic legislature will not even attempt to make fan-unfair apportionment. Fhat- sQrt of thing is, we hope, past ifi} Indiana. The Democrats stand pledged to good laws and good ; government. and that pledge will be kept.