Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1912 — Page 4

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A» Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

| MT. AYR. t (From th* Pilot.) C. S. Baker does not recuperate very fast from his attack of illness. George Corbin has taken a vacation and gone to bask on the sihores of lake Michigan. J. R. Miller's remodeled house is nearly ready for occupancy.- He Will have a commodious bungalow. It is reported that Andy Keeney •will move to town as soon as he has this years crop in the crib. Mr. and Mrs. Jasper Wright entertained Mr. arid Mrs. D. Wright, eon and daughters and son-in-law, of Homer, 111.King Chamberlain drove over to the north of Rensselaer Saturday and bought twenty-odd head of yearling steers that he will feed this winter. The work on the stone road progresses rapidly when the weather permits. The traction engine hauls out 120 yards and the teams about the same. The latter are used on the short hauls. The schools of Jackson township will open on September 9 for an eight months term. An efficient corps of instructors has been secured. Tt is essential that all who are to be in attendance be there the first day. All beginning pupils, especially in the high school should start then. The loss of a week at the beginning of the school year retards the progress of the whole class by new accessions. To Mothers—And Others. You can use Bucklen’s Arnica Salve to cure children of eczema, rashes, tetter, dhaffings, scaly and crusted humors, as well as their accidental injuries,—cuts, burns, bruises, etc., with perfect safety. Nothing else heals so quickly. For boils, ulcers, old, running or fever sores or piles it has no equal. 25 cts. at A. F. Long’s.

| FRANCESVILLE. I -I— 1(From th# Tribune.) Born, to Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Owens, Monday, a twelve pound boy. Miss Irene Stine is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Henry Kopka, in Lafayette. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. John Rusk near Pleasant Grove, Sunday morning, a daughter. Samuel Shumaker of Eureka, 111., is here this vreek overseeing the drainage of his land south of town. Mrs. J. K. Schick and children of Peoria, 111., who have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Minicd®, returned home Tuesday. Kruger Bros, have purchased the office building and lot of Dr. J. C. Sharrer located east of L. W. Hubbell’s office, the consideration being their equity in 80 acres of land in White Post township. Misses Bula and Emma Pierson of Ottawa, 111., are the guests of the Misses Pike, south of town. The Misses Mamie and Florence Routliff, who had been visiting with them, returned home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Glaze were called to Scott, Ohio, last week to attend the funeral of Mrs. Fred Mosier who died from rheumatic trouble. The Mosiers were residents of this community some twelve years ego. Mr. and Mrs. John Boligar and Miss Anna Boligar of Fairbury, Mrs. John Scha clock from Cisna Park, and Mrs. John Feltman of Portland 1 , Oregon, were the guests last week of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Boligar of south west of town.

Nineteen Miles a Second without a jar, Shock or disturbance, is the awful speed of our earth through space. We wonder at such ease of nature’s movement, and so do those who take Dr. King’s New Life Pills. No griping, no distress, just thorough work that brings good health and fine feelings. 25cts. at A. F. Long’s.

| WOLCOTT. (From the Enterprise.) ' Bora, to Mr. and Mrs. Artie Jonee, Tuesday, August 27, a son. Born, to Mt. and Mrs. Joseph Blanchett, Sunday, August 25, a daughter. Miss Ophal Sigman went to Rensselaer Tuesday to visit her sister, Mrs. L. M. Ritchey. Misses Essie and Gail Spencer went to Delphi Monday to attend the Teachers Institute. Will Clarke went to Chicago Sunday evening for a few days treatment at the hospital. Miss Katie Lorenz went to Battle Ground Saturday evening to visit her 'sister, Mrs. Walter Barker.

• 3 We are paying for j Butter fat this week 26c WILLIAM H. DEXTER Rensselaer, Indiana

<TT Item* of Interes ul from Surrounding Town* Tersely Told Chronicling the Happening* in the Territory Adjacent to th* Jasper County Metropolis

Miss Jeanette Dobbins went to Indianapolis Monday evening for a few days visit with relatives and friends. Mrs. Frank leaver of Pontiac, 111., who has been' visiting her uncle, R. C. Duff and’ family returned to her home Tuesday. Frank Nordyke of Mynard, lowa, who was called here by the death or his father, Noble Nordyke, returned home Tuesday. ■Miss Jennie Hotwell, who has been spending the past six weeks with her sister at Piper City, 111,, returned home Tuesday., Mrs. Ed Skinner pnd Mrs. L. S. Carter of Fairbury, 111., who have been visiting with O. F, Dart and family, returned home Tuesday. Miss Mabel Shaull who with the Misses Walker of Wabash, has been spending the past two weeks in Michigan, returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Scott went to Michigan City Thursday to visit friends, they will also visit friends at other points before their return. Mrs. Will Lanie and children of W aldon, Kan., came Wednesday evening to visit with Mr. Lanie’s mother, Mrs. Ceofi Lanie, and other relatives. Mrs. H. C. Brooks and children of Chicago Heights, who are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry St. Pierre, went to Reynolds Thursday to visit her sister, Mrs. Kraud. - , Mrs. Loke of North Liberty, a sister of Mrs. Noble Nordyke, and Mrs. Abrams of Chicago, a niece, came Wednesday to visit with Mrs. Nordyke.

F. E. Hart returned Friday from Busks resort}, Spider >Lake, Wis., near Manatowish. Mr. Hart says they are haying a fine time there and Morris is escaping the terrors of hay fever. Miiss Minnie Waymire, who has been spending her summer vacation here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waymire, returned to her duties in the Monnett school in Rensselaer Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Thompson and Mrs. William Billock of Valparaiso, who have been visiting with the ladies’ brother arfcl sister, Wm. Bidwell and Miss Katherine Bidwell, returned home Tuesday morning. t Mrs. Mm. Beckley of Las Vegas /Nev., who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Grimes, for some rime past, left Tuesday for her hffge. Mrs. Beckley will be met by Jacob Beckley at Cedar Rapids, lowa, and will be accompanied on the remainder of her journey by him.

T L Parks. Murrayville, Ga, Route 1, is in ihiis 73rd year, and was recently cured of a bad kidney and bladder trouble. He says himself: “I have suffered with my kidneys. My back ached and I was bothered with bladder Irregularities. I can trutihfully .say, one 50c bottle of Foley Kidney Pills cured me entirely.” They contain no habitforming drugs.—A. F. Long.

-| I GOODLAND (From th# Herald.) Mrs. Mont Brien of Mt. Ayr visited this week with Goodland friends. Mr. and Mrs. Nason Turner, of Brook, spent Sunday with relatives in Remington. J A. P. Hawn and family came down from Laporte, Ind., Thursday for a short visit With Goodland relatives. ut'D-T’ Clymer went to Kokomo Wednesday to be present at the Clymer family reunion to be held that day. George Spaulding returned to his home near Bangor, Mich., the first of the week after a short visit here with his brother. Mrs. Case nee Shand, who is visiting relatives at Remington spent last Monday here, the guest of Goodland relatives. Mrs. W. W. Dye and two daugh T ters, of Hamlet, Ind., visited here this week with her parents Mr and Mrs. B. A. Constable. * ■ Mrs. George Fleckenstine, who has been making her son, Charles, and family an extended visit in Chicago, returned home this week. Mrs. Ben Wasser and two children, and Miss Pauline Holmes, of Monon, came Thursday for a visit with Mrs. Carl Davidson and family.

Mrs. Inda Peters and daughter, Earima, and Robert and Paul Bausman, of Daiyton, Ohio, rere guests at the Mort (Kilgore home this week. Roy Mitten, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Mitten, of this city, will be married this Saturday evening to Miss Many Erb at the home of the bride’s parents in Chicago. C. L. Constable threshed his oats Monday and on 128 he received >7,695 bushels of oats and a large load was placed in the barn for feed. This makes above ah average of 60 bushels to the acre. George H. Smith lost a valuable five year old mare Thursday morning. Mr. Smith is of the opinion that an overfeed of green oats was the cause. The mare died within a half hour after it was taken sick. Miss Helen Tooley, of Grandville, N. Y., and Miss Allene Morgan, of Monikton, Va., who have been visiting here with their aunt, Mrs. E. A Peck, and husband, sincce last October, left Thursday for their" eastern homes. Mr. and Mrs. Doolittle, of Chaits-,

worth, 111., visited the first of the week with the latter’s sister, Mrs. George Hardy. They spent the past two weeks at the Fountain Park Assembly and spent a few days here enroute home. As G. D. Clymer has entered into a permanent business in Lafayette he will move his family there next week. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Bogan will occupy the large Clymer home on East Jasper street as soon as it is vacted by the Clymers. Mayor Durgan and family of Lafayette, were the guests of Mr. and Sirs. Warren Wilson for Sunday dinner. Mr. Durgan is ope of the prominent progressive democrats of Indiana and is being prevailed upon to make the race for congress tn this congressional district. E. A. Perkins Jest Monday morning for Electra, Texas, where he has a farm in the oil district. Several companies are trying to secure an option on his farm to prospect for oil. Ed is very much interested and if it’s such a good thing for others he has come to the conclusion it ought to be a good thing to investigate. P. A. Black and daughter, Mrs. T. H. McCoy, of Morgan Park., 111., visited with Goodland friends this week. Mr. Black came to Goodland forty-four years ago when just a few buildings represented the town. He owns a lot in the Goodland cemetery and while here signed a perpetual care contract for the caring for said lot. Several weeks ago Mrs. HenryBarton undewent an operation at her home on West Union street, when a middle toe was amputated from her left foot. Last week her foot began to cause her a good, deal of pain and blood poison set in. Tuesday morning she was taken to the Augustana hospital in Chicago and Wednesday morning the left' foot was removed abut half way to the knee. Mrs. Barton underwent the operation fine and is getting along nicely.

Glorious News comes from Dr. J. T. Curtiss, Dwight, Kan. He writes: “I not only have cured bad cases of eczema in my patients with Electric Bitters, but also cured myself by them of the same disease. I feel sure they will benefit any case of eczema.” This shows what thousands have proved, that Electric Bitters is a most effective .blood purifier. Its an excellent remedy for eczema, tetter, ’’salt rheum, ulcers, boils and running sores. It stimulates liver, kidneys and bowels, expels poisons, helps digestion, builds up the strength. Price 50 cts. Satisfaction guaranteed by A. F. Long.

i | MEDARYVILLE. | -I i—(From th# Advertiser.) Mrs. H. G. Farnsley is visiting relatives in. New Albany this week and next. Miss Gail Low is visiting her sister, Mrs. Pearl Holmes, at Camden, Ind. Herman Wallace and son Harold of Chicago are guests at the W. H. H. Tilton home this week. Mrs. Emil Krabbe and children of Michigan City, are the guests of the former's mother, Mrs. John' Bauer. Miss Edna Wallace returned home Sunday from a several weeks visit with her uncle and family. Mr. ,and Mrs. H. H. Jones, at LaCrosse Ind. St. Lukes Evangelical Church at; San Pierre had mission meeting last Sunday. The Revs. G. Schultius of Gilman, 111., former pastor of the church, and F. Boehm of Francesville, assisted Rev. E. Brerion in the services.

After a three weeks visit in Monon, Winamac, Rensselaer and this locality, Mr. and Mrs. U. M. Baughman returned last Monday to their home in Oklahoma City. They were accompanied by the former's nephew, Robert Low, who will attend school out there and be their guest during that time. Alfred Greiger and Miss Ella Hines were united in marriage Tuesday afternoon at the parsonage of St. John's church in Cass township by the pastor. Rev. E. Brenion. The contracting parties are well and favorably known young people of this locality, who seem to be eminently fitted to each other. The bride is the highly respected daughter of Mr., and Mrs. Julius iiaes, who reside about five miles north of Medaryville, in Jasper conn’y. The groom is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Greiger, residing in this towii, and is the efficient clerk in Hjrner & Soa’s general store. He has recently bought the Mrs. Martha McMurray (property on Main street which he will furnish up suitably for the reception of his bride.

Notice to Owners of Farm and City Property. The following dealers in this vicinity handle and carry in stock a full line of Usona Roofing, supplied by Day as our jobber: G. H. Thornton & Son, Surrey, Ind. W. L. Gumm, Remington, Ind. W. H. Boyle, Rosefawn, Ind. F. R, Erwin, Fair Oaks, Ind. Geo. Stembel, Wheatfield Ind. r J. W. > Heilscher, Kniman, Ind. 1 Warner Bros., Rensselaer, Ind. John Crook’s, Roselawn, Ind., asphalt paint. Hank Granger, Thayer, Ind. A. E. KIRK.

BUTLER&PERKINS Windmills andTowtrs Always in stock and can be erected next day after purchase. THE WATSON PLUMBING CO. Phone 204, Rensselaer, Ind.

tee Democratic party ever dealt recklessly with public funds set apart for educational purposes. The friendly interest it has always taken in the educational system of the nation is an assurance of its solicitude for an educated citizenship. The edm cation of the masses was a passion with the father of Democracy in America, and those who are familiar with his life recall how zealously he urged the preaching of a ■ crusade against ignorance and that those in authority should “improve the law for educating the common people.” It was his view, to use his language, that “if a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” Jefferson was president for eight years of this wondrous nation. His administration added territory to our public domain sufficient in area and wealth to constitute and sustain a nation, but it was not his will that these facts be disclosed on the stone at his grave, but he did ask to have it chiseled thereon that he was the father of the University of Virginia. A party inspired by the life of such a man will never misuse a fund set apart for the diffusing of knowledge among the people. The citizens of the state of Indiana are not so much interested in the particular fund to which their taxes are charged as they are in the amount of their taxes and the application made of them. And what of the record of the two parties? Mr. Watson boastfully exclaims: debt sinking fund, used in 1908, to pay current bills, none. State debt sinking fund, used in 1909, to pay current bills, none." And why was none of the state debt sinking fund used in 1908 to pay current bills? Because the Republicans, in order to meet their excessive appropriations, used the money that should have been collected to pay the state’s bonded indebtedness in paying the general expenses of their extravagant administration. Prior to 1905 the state tax levy was as follows:

Levy for general fund 9c Levy for benevolent institutions.. .5c Levy for sinking fund .3c The legislature of 1905 (all Republican) enacted a law abolishing the sinking fund tax levy for the years 1905, 1906 and 1907 and fixed the tax levy for the years 1905, 1906 and 1907 as follows: Levy for general fund 12c Levy for benevolent institutions.. 5c In other words, the Republican legislature of 19‘»5, by its act, kept the total state tax levy at 17 cents, 12 cents of which was to be used for general purposes, instead of 9 cents as formerly, and no sinking fund tax was provided for and no sinking fund existed in the years 1906, 1907, 1908, nor until June, 1909. Of course, the Republican administration did not use in 1908 the sinking fund to pay current bills for the reason its legislature had abolished that fund, but the Republican administration got the money that otherwise would have gone into the sinking fund and used it for the payment of current bills. In 1909, the first year of the present administration, the legislature fixed the state tax levy for the years 1910 and 1911 as follows: Levy for general fund 9c Levy for benevolent institutions. 5c Levy for state debt sinking And by this act privilege was granted to transfer the state debt sinking fund to the general fund. The Democratic legislature of 1911 fixed the tax levy for the years 1912 and 1913 as follows: Levy for general fund ....9c Levy for benevolent institutions.sc Levy for state debt sinking And by this act the Democratic legislature, expressly prohibited the transfer of any money in the state debt sinking fund to the general fund, and directed the state debt sinking fund to be used for the payment of the state debt only. It is clear, then, that the present administration, besides reducing the heavy Republican deficit of $506,778.30 to the nominal amount of $45,495.63, has paid $250,000 of the state’s bonded indebtedness, provided for the future finances of the state, established a sinking fund for the payment of the state’s bonded indebtedness, and, at the same time, reduced the tax levy, H 4 cents, which means a saving to the taxpayers of the state of $300,000 per year. This is, I submit, no mean record. Legislation of 1911. A political party intrusted with power is the servant of all the people. It has no right to bestow favors upon classes. It is not within the skill and wisdom of any party to maintain equality among men in the distribution of legislative favors. When a favor is granted through legislation to one man, some other man is thereby deprived of some of his rights. Legislation, therefore, should be general.

Much is heard these days about reactionary and progressive parties. It makes no difference by what name a party is known, it is a reactionary party if it grants favors to a man or a class through the wrongful exercise of the powers of governmenL On the other hand, the party that stands for protecting, through the exercise of these powers, the citizen in his rights as a member of society, is a progressive party—a party after the hearts of the fathers who gave us this republic. The Democratic party of Indiana is a progressive party. It believes in obedience to the people and when the people are obeyed, the people rule. The record of the present Democratic administration and the work of the Democratic legislature of 1911 show how completely the people rule when Democrats are in power. Every department of state has been honestly and efficiently managed. No odor of corruption emar nates from any department, and when the present incumbents of the state offices retire to private life, they will not take with them a dollar belonging to the public. A Democratic administration in Indiana is not a hotbed of official scandal. For the first time in 18 years the

Democratic party of Indiana came into complete control of state affairs in 191 L The record of the legislature of 1911 is a good one, and by it the Democratic party is willing to be judged. It would be folly on my part to attempt a discussion of all the laws enacted by the last legislature. The most that can be reasonably expected of me, under the circumstances attending this meeting, is to make a brief reference to a few of them and this I do, in part, by calling attention to the declaration of the recent Democratic state convention, endorsing the work of the legislature in the following words: Record of Good Work Done. “We approve and indorse the record of the last Democratic legislature of Indiana, and especially commend its efforts to secure the purification of the suffrage, and to provide better facilities for the prompt and speedy administration of justice. We warned the. people that without honest elections, popular government is a sham and a delusion. The existing corruption of suffrage is notorious, notwithstanding the efforts of the Democratic party to remove it, beginningwith the Australian ballot law in 1889. The attainment of honest elections lies at the foundation of all other reforms, and of all progress. • • ♦

“We indorse the record of the last legislature for national, progressive legislation. It ratified the income tax amendment to the federal constitution. It promoted honest elections by a general registration law, and rigid corrupt practices and campaign publicity law. It did a long deferred act of justice by passing a liberal employers’ liability law, which abolishes technical and unjust assumption of contributory negligence, the fellowservant rule and the working-men’s waiver of equal rights. It also passed a law for the weekly payment of wages by corporations and prohibiting the use of time and credit checks where money wages were due. It enlarged the powers of the railroad commission and empowered it to fix the rates of common carriers. Child labor laws were strengthened; a cold Storage limitation was imposed; a standard of weights and measures was established; sanitary school houses with medical inspection of pupils are required; the block signal was rendered obligatory on all sfbam and electric railroads; a bureau of inspection for factories, mines and boilers was established; a commission to advance agricultural and industrial education was formed; building and loan associations were brought under state control; and a system of uniform public accounting for all offices, large or small, throughout the state was perfected." Laws Regulating Liquor Traffic.

The people of Indiana are for temperance and law enforcement. In the interest of society, the liquor traffic must be subjected to strict regulation and the people given laws by which they can control the business. The Democratic party in the legislature of 1911 enacted a law that would seem to meet every requirement of an effective regulative statute. It increases the fee for a liquor license. It limits the number of saloons that may be licensed to do business in the respective units named by law. It abolishes the Brewery saloon and provides that a license shall be forfeited for the violation of the criminal laws of the state. It fixes the standard of fitness much higher for the applicant seeking a license and requires of him compliance in the conduct of his business, with much more exacting statutory provisions than any former law contained. I am not indifferent to the fact that some people have criticised the Democratic party for changing the local option unit from the county to the city and township. But there is no moral element or question involved in the difference between these units. Prohibitionists admit that in substituting the city and township units for the county as a unit the moral law was not infracted and it would seem that all persons would have to concur in this view. Personally I am devoted to the principle of local self-government. If there is one principle of government for which the Democratic party has stood uncompromisingly for a hundred and twenty years, it is the right of the people to control their local affairs, and the Democratic legislature was, in my judgment, in harmony with this doctrine when it designated the city and township as the units of the present local option law. I shall have no quarrel with any man who may feel keenly that I am wrong in commending the present law. I have always been frank with the people on this question, however much any one may feel I have been in error in my position. I think I am not mistaken in saying that I was the only candidate of any party in this state, seeking the nomination for governor in 1908, who took an open and definite position for a local option law prior to the Democratic and Republican state conventions of that year. Neither the Republican party nor the anti-saloon league was favoring such a law at the time I began advocating it. I stood originally for the smaller unit, for the reasons I have indicated but when the special session of the legislature enacted, in the fall of 1908 the county option law, I then felt and so stated, that the law should be given a fair trial. And when the legislature convened in January, 1909, and a movement was put on foot to repeal it, I gave out a public statement through the press, urging that the law be given a fair trial, using in part this language: “I have not changed my opinion that from a governmental .viewpoint the city or the township should be the unit, but since the people now have a law, making the county the unit, they should be allowed amnia time to test IL” As I felt then with reference to the law having the county as a unit I feel now, with reference to the present law. It should be given a fair trial. By the liquor laws now in force in

Indiana the people are afforded means for controlling the liquor business, as it carried on by saloons, even to the point of prohibiting it entirely. In the event of my election, I shall recommend the retention of the liquor remonstrance laws and whatever legislation found to be necessary to suppress the indefensible blind tiger. Future Legislation. I shall, in the event of the success of my party this fall, ask that Its platform be carried out. Questions not touched upon in that platform, I shall treat in a manner most likely, in my judgment, to meet the requirements of the people. The evils of child labor must be abolished. Improved sanitary conditions for Uiose who work in shops and factories and live in tenements are humane and public necessities Public health is a public asset. Unlike individuals, corporations are the creatures of the law,’ but like individuals, they must obey the law Governor Marshall informs me that he intends to recommend to the legislature the passage of a public utilities law, and if such a law comes to me with the sanction of the Constitution, properly safeguarding both private and public rights, it will receive my approval as Governor. I do not propose to enter upon a wild crusade in this campaign for legislation the people cannot now possibly secure, nor to allow myself to be diverted from a discussion of the grievous wrongs long suffered by the people from which they can be granted relief through the power now possessed by their government. Such questions as the initiative, referendum, and recall, presidential and vice-presidential preferential primaries, woman’s suffrage, workman’s compulsory compensation law and home rule for cities, not to mention others, cannot be legislated upon in this state in the absence of proper amendments to our state Constitution, or unless a new Constitution is adopted, authorizing the enactment of such laws. My party has not expressed itself on the advisability of the next legislature taking the proper steps for a Constitutional Convention. Personally, I favor such a convention, but I have no authority to commit my party to it, and I shall not attempt to do so. The people hold sacred their organic law, and I want them to determine through their legislators when a movement shall be inaugurated to amend their Constitution or to adopt a new one. I shall, in so far as I can, during the campaign, ascertain the opinion of the people with reference to a Constitutional Convention, and in the event of my election, I shall, without regard to my individual views, make such recommendations to the legislature relating thereto as I believe fairly represents the will of the people.

Labor and Capital. Labor and capital are indispensable to public progress. Their relar tion with one another is very much like that of friends mutually dependent upon one another. The state in its efforts to promote the happiness of man, should demand justice between these two great civilizing force. Without capital there is no employment for labor. Without labor there is no increment for capital. Discord between them is a public enemy, and the destruction of either by the other will be the maelstrom of civilization. Preserve them both is the command of Democracy. But in seeking to preserve them the Democratic party does not fail to recognize that capital has the ability to get on in the world better than labor. For this reason the Democratic party has always insisted that in the legislative policies of the state and the nation the encroachment of capital upon the rights of labor must be guarded against in the interests of society. The boy with his pick on his shoulder has as strong a claim upon society as the boy with his interestbearing bond in his pocket. The man with the tin bucket must not be lost sight of in the rush to bestow favors on the man with the iron box. The man with his flocks and herds on the farm deserves as well of his government as the man with the bulls and bears on WaU street. In short, the man who labors is the nation’s builder in times* of peace and the nation’s preserver in times of war. Labor creates; capital absorbs. So the heartbeat of the world bids us recognize that in the finality of things the difference between labor and capital is the difference between immortality and materiality. ,

Wilson and Marshall. Before closing I want to congrat* ulate the Democracy of Indiana upon the honor bestowed upon It by the Democracy of the United States in nominating for vice-president Governor Thomas R. Marshall. He has served the people of his state honorably and ably as chief executive, and if elected vice-president he will likewise serve the people of the nation. I congratulate you also upon your party’s nominee for president— Woodrow Wilson. He is a man of high ideals, and in every way thoroughly equipped to serve the people in their highest office. Wilson and Marshall are entitled to and will receive the united support of their party. My fellow citizens, I hope I have a proper appreciation of the responsibility I shall assume if I am made Governor of Indiana. If that responsibility becomes mine, I shall endeavor to serve impartially all the people. The institutional life of this state, shall not be prostituted to party ends,, and the public wards shall be treated as the objects of the state’s keenest solicitude. The different departments of the government and their separate functions will be respected. A Governor should not forget that he Is neither called upon to make nor to Interpret the law for the people. I want the support of every man who has the right to cast an honest vote, and who will want me, if l am elected, to stand for the enforcement of law and the maintenance of the peace and dignity of the state.