Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1910 — WHY DOES HE DODGE? [ARTICLE]

WHY DOES HE DODGE?

The Democratic party of Indiana. in it? state platform, declared in favor of a modification •f the county option law by sub'tituting local option by cities, incorporated towns and to.wnships. The Republican party, which took the county Option r «ad in 1908. and passed the pre--ent law in September of that year. make? no mention of the matter in it? platform thi? year. When the question was tip for discussion two years ago Beveridge dodged. The anti-saloon lea-

gue arranged for him' to dodge this year.by consenting to have the option question left out •>f the Republican platform. Beveridge and the anti-saloon league t' gether are working together to -ecure control of the legislature, if po?-ible. The inference is that ■the. ?enator favors the retention

■f the countv option law. But he ha? riot said ?o publicly. It was reported that lie had written a letter to 1. Frank Hanly which is- Satisfactory to the ex-governor, but what i? the truth about it? r -r.’t It time fi r Mr. Beveridge to -too v. here he >tarids? ’

R »*>sevelt .managed the New York Republican convention to -nit himself. The platform i? hi? and the candidates are his. Fhe platform praise? the . Pay-ne-Ald-rich tariff law in terms a? strong a? either Payne or Aldrich would ;.:?e in Co:r. mending their own >rk. Fhe candidate for governor i? a corporation lawyer and a partner of F.lihu R» ot. the confidential adviser and director of . e big trusts and combinations. All this shows what Roosevelt really stands so that is the very things he denounced out v.x?t. . What he will sav in Indiana remain? to be seen. But as

he seems to'think that the people west of < >hio either cannot read or are fool?, he probably will repeat his Kansas and lowa speeches, even in the very face f his .Yew York performance, ‘lack in .Yew York, however, ■ here the Republican campaign funds come from he will continue tA stand pat with “big business." As the people of Indiana can read arid are capable of knowing a thing when they see it. they will IF allow', their Intelligence he iiiMiite 1 even ’,l>y ?uch. a personage a? the Hon. T. Roosevelt.