Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1910 — STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State. LEW G. ELLINGHAM, Dosstar. Auditor of State WM. H. O’BRIEN, Lawrenceburg. Treasurer of State W. H. VOLLMER, Vincennee. 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. Rushville. 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, Logansport. 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. For Joint Reprenentative, Jasper and White Counties. WILLIAM GUTHRIE, Montleelld.

COUNTY TICKET.

Clerk FELIX R. ERWIN, Union Tp. Auditor A. BEASLEY, Carpenter Tp. Treasurer CAREY L. CARR, New ton Tp. Sheriff WM. I. HOOVER, Marion Tp. Surveyor DEVERE YEOMAN. Marion Tp. Assessor ■ v . CHAS. U GARRIOTT, Ugfon Tp. ■ Coroner ■■■ -»R. M. B. FYFE, Wheatfield Tp. Commissioner Ist District WILLIAM HERSHMAN, Walker Tp. Commissioner 2d District C. F: STACKHOUSE, Marion Tp. County Coun Ahnen—lst District. GEO. O. STEM BEL, 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.

The Democratic state convention of Illinois ran the road roller over those alleged Democrats who voted for Larimer at the last session of the legislature. They were flattened out so completely that they will never be recognized—not. at least, as Democrats. The -so-called tariff board or “commission" has found that it has no power to compel anyone to give information about anything. But it is announced that it will go right along. Of course it will. So long as any of that $250,000 appropriation for expenses lasts the board is expected to go right along. S. Says Congressman Crumpacker: “Whatever differences, if any, there are in the Republican party, they are our Own affairs and we will settle them on our own political hearthstone.” And that is where the fight is going on, to the great disturbance of the peace. But why should the guileless Crumpacker say “u any”? '

"Insurgency, red-blooded, rocfcribbed. dyed-*in-t he-wool, straight from the shoulder insurgency—that tells the whole Republican plan for attack for the remaining six weeks of the campaign.” So shouts the Indianapolis Sun. ons of the chief irregular organs an i special spokesman for the Hon. Albert J. The poor regulars are not to be given as much as a lookin, according to the program mapped out by the Sup. But is it. after all, a mere bluff?

Having been practically crowded out f the campaign by Beveridge and his managers, and having nothing else to do just now, Mr. Fairbanks, once vice president, has turned his attention to the exciting task of re-foresting the waste places in the state. Perhaps when the election is over and he feels that he may dare to again take an interest in politics, he will give some attention to the job of re-foresting the waste places in the Republican party caused by the devastating work of the insurgents.

The editor of the New A ork Evening Post was denounced not long ago by Roosevelt as the most miserable liar on earth, all because of certain things the Post said—and afterward proved. And now the Post editor is making it his business from day to day to draw the "dealdy parallel” on Roosevelt with results that must be painful to that free-speaking personage. The effort of the Post articles is to show how careful people should be in accepting what the colonel says unless corroborating evidence is produced.

It i.- now said that James A. Tawnev of Minnesota, a regular Republican congressman, who was defeated for re-nomination, was opposed by Roosevelt because lie was instrumental in cutting off some of the appropriations that Roosevelt was in the habit of drawing on to pay the expenses of 'his personally created commissions. Xo public monev can now be used for such purunless the commission has been created by law. This is as it should be., but it does not accord with Theodore’s “new nationalism."

"Does the Democratis party offer any reasons from its own record of its own progressiveness or its own repentance of past errors why it is fit to be trusted with government? It does not.” —Indianapolis Star i Beveridge organ. >

Well. -av m>w. what do you know about that '-. Coming ’from the Indianapolis Star which, al though temporarily in Tk hands ot a receiver, is owned by Railr- id Magnate Reid of Xey dork. r Street Railway Magnate Skater of Chicago, it is particularly crushing i lie whole matter is settled. Nothing .can he added. The organ of the magnates has pronounced judgment. < iee-whiz !

Immediately after the Democratic state con vend io«one of the leading officer- of that Republican adjunct, the Anti-Saloon League. declared that it was the duty of the organization to "work both t >th and nail for the Republican.-." And they all began doing it. Democrat-, however, according to the league, should be non--1 partisan. - Art Evansville last week the league's head functionary said that "this is a very good time to pav no attention to torty emblems." It is merely a re-baiting of the "non-partisan" trap into which it is hoped to entice tinware Democrats, if there be any. But are there any? As samples of the "frame of mind" of the average Republican editor these days, it may be instanced the Richmond item, speaking of J. H. Clay pool, a regular Republican, says; “What is the need of treding twice on a flvthe W ashington Herald, asserts that Charles E. Hernty. former chairman of the Republican state committee and a regular, "has earned and will receive the contempt of every honest Republican of Indianathe Xim port Hoosier State classes Rooseve 1 t as a “muck-raker." Other Republican papers are applying other epithets to other Republican persons. Surely it is a very bad cash -of domestic infelicity.

A staff correspondent of the Xew York Sun ( (Rep.), after spending three wefeks ,m trying to learn the pqjjtical sentiment of the state of Xew York, states that, with one exception, ‘ljie did not hear “the -lightest suggestion

that, any Republican representing any faction or running on any platform, however, progressive. could carry the state against a decent Democrat.” The Democrats have not yet held their state convention in Xew York, hut that when tfliey do hold it they will surely bring forth a “decent Democrat." The nomination and election of Democrats of that sort is now the business of the Democrat party throughout the Union.

Why, we should like to know, did the St. Joseph county Democracy, in convention last Saturday, refuse to indorse John W. Kern?—Evansville Journal-News (Republican.) All of the Beveridge organs, hunting for a diversion of any sort, were inspired to ask the above question and comment upon it with owlish gravity. Put the answer is easy. The St. Joseph county Democrats were holding a county convention. They adopted no resolutions. The only resolution offered contained an endorsement of Senator Shively, Mr. Kern and Congressman Barnhart, and it was declared out of order. That’s all, There was nothing more. The fact that the Beveridge organs have resorted to silly intiendo shows how desperate is their case,

The Democratic party has lived for more than one hundred years. It was organized as the party of the people. Its founder put forth the immortal declaration "equal and exact justice to all. special privilege to none” as the cornerstone of the party. The Democratic-party today, as it was in t'he days of Jefferson, is the party of the people, and it stands now. as it did then, for equal justice to all. and against special privileges to any. It is therefore simply silly impertinence for the Beveridge papers to talk about the Democratic party’s failure to "progress” along insurgent lines. The Democratic party does not need to “progress" along such lines. It stands firmly for progress along its own lines, which are Strictly for the general welfare. Sincere insurgents are coming to realize this truth, and they will vote accordingly.

The Republican state committee. which is managed exclusively by Senator Beveridge, has decided not to ask James E. Watson, lames A. I lemon way and other regulars of their aggressive starnp to speak in the Indiana, campaign. But on the other hand it lias decided to bring into the state al! of the leading outside insurgent speakers it can get. including Bristow, Cummins, Dolher, Clapp. Stubbs of Kansas and others. Indiana regulars, even though they he famous orator.-, are not wanted. Insurgent outsiders are preferred by Beveridge and his committee. But then Beveridge is practically an outsider himself. He votes in Indiana for political reason-, hut ' e cannot he said to live in Indiana. In the twelve years that he habeen a member of the senate it

is doubtful if he has spent as much as six months’ time in the state. .

Mr, Crumpacker lavs stress upon the income tax amendments■ to the tariff hill as being a good thing. President Taft has expressed his opinion of the ‘ matter in these words. "Voted tee authority. I would not favor the present imposition of an income tax. From a practical standpoint I object to its inquisitorial character and to the premium it puts upon perjury. The Federal government should possess this power—because it may be indispensible 1 to thy nation's life in time of need, and because the time may come when the protective tariff system of customs. And internal revenue taxation will not provide revenue enough to carry on the government." So Mr. Crumpacker wants to be 're-elected because he voted for a hill that puts a premium on perjury and is needed only in case he and the other- standpat Congressman. cannot pile on enough tariff to cover the monstrous extravagances in which they indulge.