Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — Page 3

GOVERNOR MAKES A PERSONAL PLEA

Asks Voters to Ratify His Administration by Electing Democratic Legislature. HIS HANDS HAVE BEEN TIED j i - With Genera! Assembly' In Political Sympathy Could Enact Desired ; -Reform Laws. -I ’ ■ The elosing days of the campaign find Governor Marshall making an urgent plea to the voters of Indiana to ratify his administration by voting the Democratic ticket and to give him la chance during the remainder of his term by giving him a Democratic legislature and surrounding him in the State House with Democratic officials, j The Governor was loath to drtg his own administration into the campaign and did not do so until an attack was made upon the “Democratic administration U&der Governor Marshall” ny Finley T. M?unt, Republican [candidate for Attorney General, It ! was tbij Ujat. pl governor for the first time bpbhfed on nis opponents, denying the existence of any such thing as a Democratic administration, but pleading for one after the next telection. He began this plea in his ‘Richmond speech and is continuing it ■day by dhfr. • The Goevrnor*s line of argument is that a Democratic Governor and a Denrt&ratic Superintendent of Public Instruction do not make a Democratic State Administration. He points out that on all boards on which he serves ihe constitutes a minority member, the State Board of Finance being composed of two Republicans and the Governor; the State Board of Printing of three Republicans and the Governor; the State Board of Buildings and Property ■®f two Republicans and the Governor;. Sd bo on down the list Ho recalls kt the Secretary of State, Auditor of State, Treasurer of State, the Attorney General, Clerk of the Supreme Court, ’Reporter of the Supreme Court, State Geologist, State Mine Inspector, Natural Gas Inspector, Oil Inspector, all are Republicans. The State Tax Board I has but one Democratic member, •CoL C. C. Matson. The Labor Com- ■ mission, though bi-partisan, is composed of two commissioners appointed by Hanly. The Factory Inspec- ’ tion Department is Republican jthroughout. Even now, at the end of [two years in office, Governor Marshall finds himself surrounded by only 1 a few Democrats. Hampered by Division.

! The Governor Is recalling that the last Legislature was divided, the ‘House being Democratic and the Senate Republican. The House passed practically all the bills asked for by the Governor, but these bills were promptly rejected by the Republican Senate. Reform legislation, which had been promised by the Democrats in their 1908 campaign, therefore became impossible. The Governor is still demanding his reform legislation. He still wants to purify the ballot, to conserve public health, to reduce expenses, to reorganize the Labor Commission and the Factory Inspection Department, to do away with useless boards and commissions, to better regulate the admission of patients to the insane hospitals and of other institutions for unfortunates, to regulate salyjes, and thereby prevent extra pay tot-so-called extra services and to do numerous other things which a divided Legislature refused to do. The Governor wants a law empowering him uk remove public,, officers who fail to do their duty, and is counting oiia Democratic Legialature to give hlm'Xuch a law. He wants to extend the primary election IlAw to all offices and to all counties, gnff wants a simple law that will ‘prevent unlawful voting such as was permitted in Lake county two years ago. He wants the Oil Department reorganized and the vicious fee system under which it is operating done away .with. These reforms met with the approval, two years ago* of the Democratic House. They were rejected by the Republican Senate. "Give me a Legislature that will respect my wishes,” the Governor is declaring in his speeches, “and we will enact the reforms for which the people are clamoring. We could not do lit two years ago because of the mixed [political complexion of the Assembly. We cannot do it this winter unless the Assembly is politically in sympathy with me. Give me Democratic State officers to serve with me on the boards and commissions. Give us a fair chance. My feet and hands have been tied. A Democratic victory will give us a chance to show whether or not we are sincere. If, then, we do not make good, that is our fault It is not fair, however,' to put us in offive and then so handicap us that we cannot do the things we want to do.”

FARMER IS VICTIM.

He Always Gets Hot End of the Tariff Poker, Says Senator Shively. “At every turn the farmer has been handed the hot end of the tariff poker,” says Senator B. F. Shively, in an address. “The Farmer and the Tar Iff," prepared especially for the farm, er* of Indiana. . "In the closing days of the cam

paign, Republican leaders are making frantic appeals to the farmers to come to the assistance of the Republican ticket against the rising tide of revolt in the cities,” says Senator Shively. "Why should the farmer vote to vindicate the Payne-Aldrich tariff? Or why should be give countenance to that cunning difference-of-cost, plus-a-profit evangel in which panic-stricken statesmen are seeking shelter? Government has no fund out of which to guarantee profits. It can legislate profit to one man only as it legislates losses to another. American agriculture is a nonprotected and non-protectable industry. “The genius of man cannot devise a system of impßrt duties that could protect the farmer. Every year millions Of bushels of his wheat and'corn and millions of pounds of his hogs, cattle and cotton go out to the great surplus market of western Europe. Would a single bushel or pound go there but for the fact that it brings a higher price there than at home? Any day of the year the price of wheat is lower at New York than Liverpool,, lower at Chicago than New York, lower at St. Paul than Chicago, and lower at Fargo than at fit. Paul. The surplus wheat from the pampas of South America, the table-lands of India, the valley of the Nile, , and the plains of Russia is poured into the markets of Western Europe in competition with the surplus wheat from the farms of the United States. There, under the competition of the whole world, is fixed the price of staples of the farm, and from there the price ranges downward past every farm aid ranth . . Stream is outward. “The stream of surplus is outward, not inward. Duties of one hundred dollars per bushel or ten dollars per pound could not help the fanners to the extent of a single penny. He stands between two markets, neither of which he controls. He makes bis sales at prices fixed by ethers. He makes his purchases at prices fixed by others. He sells his staples at prices fixed by world-wide competition and then buys the things he needs for self and family, under what conditions? Under the same conditions on which he sells his products? No. He buys in a market from which foreign competition is barred by prohibitive tariff schedules, and from which domestic competition is removed by do-' mestic combinations organized under the shelter of such schedules. “A protective tariff protects the woolen and cotton goods the farmer must buy, but cannot protect the corn and wheat he has to sell. It protects the farm machinery, the furniture, the Iron ware, woodenware, glass and glassware, carpets, paints and dozens of other things which he must buy, but cannot protect the oats, rye, cattle or hogs he has to sell. It protects the things he must buy by enabling the trusts controlling them to write up artificial prices on them. Thus the farmer sells at normal, competing prices, and buys at highly abnormal and fictitious prices written up. by greed without reference to cost “So situated, the farmer, for forty years, has been the special victim of the system. All this time he has been exchanging a part of his annual output for watered prices instead of for goods. Swift advance was made from the sickle to the self-binder, and other improved means of producing, harvesting, storing and marketing his crops. But by the cunning device of artificial prices on what he must buy, these advantages served only to make fortunes for others rather than for himself. “If the farmer of this country receives higher prices than once prevailed, so does the fanner in every other agricultural country In the world. If the fanner is better circumstanced than formerly, it is in spite of, not by reason of the protective schedules. For forty years the farmers have been making millionaires by the thousands. But how many on the farm? By the medium of watered prices the locusts of monopoly have eaten away the natural rewards of agriculture, and fattened Into enormous wealth the interests thus pensioned on this oldest occupation of history. “The Payne-Aldrich act, as have all kindred acts before it, helps the farmer just as does the fly in his wheat, the smut in his corn, the rust in his oats, and the bote in his horses; save only that it loses him more than all these combined. The duties on his farm products are . worthless to him. They are purely political duties which cannot protect and were intended only to hoodwink, deceive and cajole him into voting for other duties that rob him on all he brings onto the farm or into the home. No, the farmer is the choice vfttim of the system and always has been. At every turn he has been handed the red hot end of the tariff poker. His 8 % -cent hog never becomes 35-cent bacon until after it leaves the farm. "No one can rightly pretend that this is class treatment of the subject. The class principle is in the protective statute itself. Protectionism, as it is exemplified in practice today, io the very essence of classism. It* has cast the class spirit over society, and the farm home has been the sufferer from its into beneficiaries and victims in the ratio of less than 5 to 9S, and the farmer nowhere appears as a beneficiary. Farmers differ In politics as do other men. But with the tariff an issue, the differences that divide the farmers thia y«*r into hostile camps to nullify one another's votes on election day are the kind of differences that drag neighbors into court to pay costs, enrich lawyers, and beggar themselves. -

Tiinrr FREE TRIPS TO MCW VflDI/—J —lun I Unh THE DEMOCRAT will present to Jasper County’s three most popular young ladies a grand tour of the East, including Washington, D. C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, etc., and a magnificent outing in the greatest of all the world's most famous sight-seeing cities— Beautiful New York City ■ o : ■■■ V ... ... . The Democrat will conduct within the next few weeks a popular voting contest to determine who shall take this trip. Three young ladies will be sent on the entire tour absolutely free of charge to themselves. The selection will be left in the hands of the people. Hence the popularity phase. The people will determine the fortunate ones. There are no strings on this offer, no reservations, nothing to confuse, no difficult terms to comply with. Any lady of good moral character —married or single—is eligible to enter the contest and is welcome to participate —and three of them are going to win a prize that will prove the event of their lives.

, Contest Rules Any young-lady —married or single—of good moral character, is eligible to enter this popular voting contest. A lady must be entered in the district in which she resides, but o she may receive votes from any section of the county —or, in sact r wherever The Democrat circulates. Of course the five fortunate ones will be the five ladies who receive the highest number of votes in their own districts. To enter the contest, simply write the name on the Nomination Blank and send or bring it to this office. The count of votes will be made twice a week and the results announced in the following issue of The Democrat. Contestants should enter the race at once. All those entering before Saturday night will receive a bonus of 3,000 votes to start.

DIVISION OF DISTRICTS First—Keener, Wheatfield, Kankakee, Walker, Gillam, Union Twps. Second—Newton, Marion, Barkley and Hanging Grove Third—Jordan, Milroy and Carpenter Townships ; -J Ik-; ft—•h ” . . ■ • • '■ i, /.-• ‘ ■ "• ■' NOTEFiII out the Nomination Blank completely and either bring or send it to the Democrat office. If dropped into the ballot box before Saturday night it will count as 3,000 votes for the contestant.

SPECIAL NOTICE—In case of a tie in any District' BOTH candidates will be sent on the Grand Tour

Manner of Voting There are two ways, and only two, in which people may vote for their favorite. First—A coupon will appear in every issue of The Democrat entitling the holder to a certain number of votes. Cut out tfyese coupons, place the name of your favorite upon them and mail them to this office, or drop them in the ballot box in The Democrat office. Second —Each subscription to the Democrat will count for votes as show'n in the vote schedule. For instance, if a friend gives you a year’s subscription to the Twice-a-Week Democrat, that counts 1,000 votes for you.

VOTE SCHEDULE VOTES 1 year’s subscription, $1.50 1,000 2 year’s subscription, 3.00 3,000 5 year’s subscription, 7.50 10,000

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