Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Page 2

J .ill? DENOGUI />IOR AND PUBLISHER. ->CRATIC PAPER OF H COUNTY. made known on apatlon. . »• utstance Telephones Residence 311. ‘<)-i Glass Matter Juna , .*• .-"t office at KensselAer, “liatia ■().„■■ Act of March 3. 1879. "uo.'ts'e Wednesday and Saturday, yednesciay Issue - Pages; Saturday Is--. 8 Pages. SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1912.

DEMOCRATIC STATE TICKET

For Governor SAM CEL M. RALSTON, of Lebanon . For Lieutenant Governor WILLIAM P. O’NEILL, of Mi-bawaka For Secretary of State LEW G. ELLIXGHAM, of Decatur For Auditor of State WILLIAM 11. O'BRIEN, of Lawrenceburg For Treasurer of State WILLIAM H. VOLLMEU, of Vincennes For Attorney General THOMAS M. HONAN, of Seymour For Silpt. Of Public Instruction CHARLES A. GREATHOUSE, of Indianapolis For State Statistieiain THOMAS W. BOLLEY, of North Vernon For Reporter Supreme and Appellate Court PHILIP ZOERCHER, of Tell City For Judge of Supreme Court First District JOHN W. SPENCER, of Evansville For Judge of Supreme Court Fourth; District RICHARD K. ERWIN, of Fort Wayne For Judge of' Appellate Court, Southern Division JOSEPH H. SHEA, of Seymour. • COUNTY TICKET. For Treasurer EDWARD I’. LANE, of Newton Township For Recorder STEPHEN D. CLARK, of Wheatfield TownsJiip For Sheriff WILLIAM I. HOOVER, ' of Marion Township For Survevor DEVERE YEOMAN, of Marion Township For Coroner DR. A. P. RAINIER, of Remington For Commissioner 2d District CHARLES F. STACKHOUSE, of Marion Township For Commissioner 3d District ALBERT H. DICKINSON, of Carpenter Township. ****•**’•••*♦

According to Teddy.

But, alas! the times change and the manners. In Teddy's Cabinet—l9l2 —Knox was a profound jurist, in Taft’s Cabinet— l9l2— Knox is Pen. rose’s factotum. Under no circumstances are we permitted to doubt of this shrinkage in the measure of Philander. Have we not been told by a Maryland panegyrist that Teddy “is the greatest human being that ever trod this earth”? And doesn’t his' tread verify and visualize the boast of his Idolator? Knox was, but is not. Philadelphia Record.

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UP TO MR. ROOSEVELT

SOME QUESTIONS VOTERS WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANSWERED. People Are Naturally Interested in the Matter of Campaign Contributions for, the "Third Term Candidate." Now that Mr. Roosevelt is screaming about Mr. Taft's s irfender to the interests, Mr, Taft is * charging that Mr. Roosevelt received corporation tar J vqrs and returns them in protection and Mr. ’ Perkins is artlessly confessing that lie contributed to the campaign funds of both Mr. Taft and Mr Roosevelt, perhaps we can get interesting information sve have long sought. * Web know that Mr, Perkins gave the Roosevelt fund $5 ,<jdo of insurance money and that two other insurance companies contributed $50,1100 each. We know from Mr.' Perkins' testimony j that the Steel trust contributed to the fund of 1904 We know that Mr. Harriman raised $260,00u for use in New York. We know that Standard Oil sent SIOO,OOO, which Mr. Roosevelt says he sent back. Mr. Armour boasted that the beef trust contributed to Mr. Roosevelt s-! fund. We know that Mr. Roosevelt checked the prosecution of the liar- | vester trust and gave the friendly Morgan interests immunity in absorbing the Tennessee Coal and Iron • company. But this information is. fragmentary. If Mr. Roosevelt really j Is willing to have the whole truth j known he should tell the country precisely what trusts contributed to his campaign fund and how much each one contributed; he should answer, or get Mr. Cortelyou to answer, these frequently repeated but so far unanswered questions of the Post-Dis-patch: i 1. How much has the Beef trust contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? 2. Haw ,much has the paper trust ; contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? 3. How much has the coal trast contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? j 4. How much has the sugar trust j contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? 6. How much has th oil trust contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? i 6. How much lias the tobacco trust j contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? j 7. How much has the steel trust contributed to. Mr. Cortelyou? 8. How much has the Insurance j trust contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? | 8. How much have the national ! banks contributed to Mr. Cortelyou? I 10. How biuch have the sis great’ | railroad trusts contributed to Mr. ! Cortelyou | Frank replies to these questions would be a valuable contribution not alone to the literature of the Roosevelt third-term campaign, but to the political history of the country—St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Ind’t).

Democratic Opportunity.

The Democratic responsibility, i)o less than the Democratic opportunity, is tremendous, for upon the Democratic party rests the obligation to afford the country a decent alternative in government, in ease the present confusion and strife within the Republican • ranks leaves the Republican party helpless to continue effectively In the administration of the nation’s affairs—Springfield Republican.

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WHY ‘PEOPLE’S FIGHT?'

ROOSEVELT BATTLE CRY SEEMS SOMEWHAT ABSURD. 1 '• * To the Ordinary Observer, the Only Reason for Third-Termer’s Nomination Would Be His Wish to Return to the Whit^, House. “It's the people’s fight,” says Mr. Roosevelt. But the people’s fight for what? No essential changes have been been made in the constitution of the United States since its adoption. During the 123 years that the American people have lived under this system of constitutional representative government the population of the country has increased from 4.000,000 to 95,000,000. The wealth of the country has increased from a relatively insignificant sum to $125,000,000,000. This national wealth is more widely and equitably distributed than it was when the constitution was adopted. Without tampering in any way with our constitutional form of government we have grown to be the most powerful and mo* united of modern nations. We have established manhood suffrage. We have destroyed slavery. We have suppressed secession. We are rapidly curbing the plutocracy that grew out of the unparalleled expansion of Industry during the last four decades. Our city governments are cleaner and better than they have been at any period since the civil war. Our state governments are better. Our national government Is better. Probably there has never been another time in the history of the United States when there was so little political corruption, or when Ameiican gov- , eminent of every sort could so well : endure the searchlight of pitiless publicity. AH this progress was made under a '/constitutional system which is adapted to infinite Yet in his reckless ambition for a third term Mr. Roosevelt fells us that our democracy is a sham and the republic is a lie. The old institutions are archaic. V. e must abandon representative government and adopt direct govern- 1 men:. w hich has been a failure since the dawn of civilization We must destroy the checks and balance which have held republican institutions firmly in place. We must obliterate the safeguards by which tjt'e right's of the minority have been pro’acted from the aggressions of the majority.- We must gh indon restraints upon popular passion hnd prejudice. We must substitute. dictatorship for the presidency. We must make the constitution the transitory wil]. of a transitory majority at ;my election,and turn our hacks on 123. years of glorious history. "l;'s t/he people's fight.” Rut what is it that the people are supposed to be flghflng for Under this thfrd-term banner of Roosrtclfi m” Are they fighting for : nything more substantial than Mr. Roosevelt’s determination to mum to. M e white house?- St. Louis Republic:. ■ - ■ .

Leader Must Be Strong Man.

Thai the Democrats this year have good t rospects df success has been evident, ever since the passage of the Payne-Aid rich tariff bill, and these prospects have been improved by the factional strife in the Republican party. Rut the idea that any Democrat can be elected, regardless of his economic tendencies or his record, i a false one. and the far-seeing members of the party, realizing this, are beginning to consider the kind of campaign they must make with their chosen candidate, whoever he may be. The Republicans, always remarkable for their party discipline, have a wonderful faculty of getting together after their bitterest quarrels, as the record of past elections shows. So it will not do to assume that because they are at ebch other’s throats now they will not be at Democratic throats when the actual campaign begins. And the sooner the Democrats realize the importance of nominating their strongest man on the strongest platform they can construct, the less dan ger there will be of the deterioration of their prospects of success.

Roosevelt and Taft.

We have never professed any admiration for the Payne-Aldrlch tariff but as Mr. Taft Is a Republican and a professed believer in the theory of protection we see no reason why he should have vetoed the bill, though we should have admired him greatly if he had been able to rise above ail party lines and kill the bill in the Interest of the whole country. As Mr. Taft really tried to get tariff duties re duced, and Mr. Roosevelt, who is on record as an opponent of Protection, did not during the seven and a half years of his presidency, we cannot see on what ground he can attack the president for signing the act.

Against Annexation of Cuba.

There is a business class thaf-’Wns Cuba annexed for Its profit. There are news seekers who spread the report merely to Inflate the news. Every sensible man will be willing to have Cubh come into the United States when her people wish it. But to have the United States take the island against the consent of her people would be courting another ten years’ war, whlph would run Cuba and Impose a great burden of life and treasure on the United States.—Pittsburg Dispatch.

SEEMS A LOST OPPORTUNITY

Building of the Panama Canal Might Have Been Utilized to More Advantage. The Panama Canal bill which passed the lower house of congress has many good features. One of them Is that American vessels employed In the coastwise trade shall have the use of the. canal free. But American ships engaged in foreign trade must pay the same tolls as ships owned in other countries, $1.25 a ton. A\ hy American coastwise vessels shhuld be favored and American deepsea ships discriminated against is something hard to understand. To be sure there are only a few ships engaged in foreign commerce which fly the Stars and Stripes. The immense export and import business of this country has to depend on foreign bottoms. But those Americans who have hoi»ed to see the maritime prestige of their country restored have seen in the Panama canal possibilities which could be made to contribute tovi ard bringing that result about, •,/ . The canal is being built by the United States at a cost which will probably reach $400,000,000. It is idle to contend that this country cannot, in all fairness, give its own shipping the free use of such a waterway. In fact the house of representatives takes that stand when it relieves coastwise vessels from paying tolls. Then why should it refuse the same privilege to ships in the foreign trade?

The argument rut forth that only an infinitesimal part of the nation is directly interested in ocean shipping by reason of the great objects hoped to be accomplished by the construction of the canal is the development of the commerce between this country and Asia and South America. If congress is determined that the United States shall not have any merchant marine engaged in foreign commerce, how 's that result to be attained? Tiie Panama canal is bringing this Is: ue before the country in a manner which will compel the people to realize }ts importance and act accordingly.

DRASTIC CHANGE IS NEEDED

No Hope of Adequate Tariff, Revision Until the Democratic Party Is in Power. When the bill revising the metal schedules of the Payne-Aldrieh tariv law came to a vote in the. senate 'the Republican members of that body withdrew to the cloakrooms or otherwise ted themselvek They took this acti"n. it is explained, so that the bill might reach the president; be vetoed and thus be disposed of. That s all the Republican senators have learned after four years of widest discussion of the tariff, stimulated by intelligent popular interest. To them tariff legislation is still nothing more than ah occasion for party jockeying. They are unconscious that the fixed and critical gaze of a nation of a hundred million is centered upon them! It is patent to all of us that the Republican senators should have voted for the bill in question; and if it was a bad bill, they should as surely have voted against it. The people are tremendously serious about tariff legislation. They’ think their legislators should be serious. Also the seriousness of the people apparently strikes the Republican senators as provincial. So, jocularly, they withdraw while an important tariff bill is being voted upon and swap anecdotes over indolent cigars. They "put up to Taft" the vetoing of this bill. The people have nothing to look for from Washington until they have driven Taft and his party from the W hite House and the senate, as they have already driven them from the house. That will be attended to in November.

Where Is the Money Coming From?

It has been shown that preferential I rimaries are expensive for the candidate and also for the people. Stephenson's election cost him something like $107,000. Senator Bourne spent *IOO.OOO to be "preferred.” Bourne is a wealthy man. On the other hand, Theodore Roosevelt is not a multimillionaire and is certainly not rich enough to afford to finance his own campaign. Where is this money coming from? George W. Perkins of the harvester and steel trusts, admits that he is one of Roosevelt’s backers Perkins’ wealth is represented largely by the United States Steel corporation. The steel trust, as represented by Perkins and the great Morgan interests, “who have been so friendly to us.” looks kindly on the candidacy of Theodore Roosevelt.

Pertinent Question.

Assertions that Uncle Sam is paying four times as much as anyone else for property rented for government purposes in Washington are placidly accepted in the senate. But should not some action be taken to stop this robbery? Cannot; Uncle Sam afford' to build his own buildings at the capital?

Government and the Trusts.

There is no Question of recasting the Constitution or making it more fluid so that the government will fit the trusts. It is merely a question of making the trusts fit the government, and the sooner the trusts can realize that this is the only way to commercial and industrial peace the better it will be for them. A mere handful of men, however rich they may be, can not control 95,000,000 people, dally when those people are arotsed -as they are now beginning to be.

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