Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

POLITICAL SPEAKING. Gifford—Oct. 14. •Kniman— Oct. 15. Egypt—Oct. 16. Newton (Blue Grass) —Oct 17. 1 Milroy (Center)—Oct. 18.

Sam Adams down to Thomas Paine and Patrick Henry they were continuously and uproariously hollering their heads off about the injustice and abuses of the time and spreading insurgency all over everywhere to the intense disgust and disapproval of polite society and Big Business.

There was a fine flock of insurgents fifty years later. Exceedingly rambunctious and annoying were John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison, John C. Fremont, Wendell Phillips, Charles Sumner, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John G. Whittier, Abraham Lincoln. These people were always throwing fits about the social and industrial injustice of the time, making noisy speeches, delivering hysterical Chautauqua lectures, writing insurgent books, poems and magazines, threatening to stir up all sorts of discontent, chasing over the country with their revolutionary propaganda, menacing the constitution and the Supreme Court and even getting dangerously near. the point of bringing on war itself. The‘machine politicians of today, bent on obstruction of every campaign for humanity and progress, try to make themselves believe that Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln were standpatters. It is a pitiful and a profitless mistake. The revolutionary leaders and the apostles of freedom today are Roosafvelt, Johnson, Beveridge, Jane Addams, Judge Lindsey, Oscar Straus, Gifford Pinchot William Allen White. The Tories of 1776 and the strict constructionists of 1860 are the'political ancestors of the of today.

OUR PLATFORM does not deal with the empty generalities with which the ordinary political platform is filled; it does not contain the sound and fury designed to conceal the lack of genuine purpose. We, in our platform," for the first time since the civil war .face the issues of the day feiarless'ly, resolute, determined to see that the cause of righteousness does not suffer in our hands.”

“The fundamental plank is the plank that pledges us to fight for sociail and industrial justice, the plank that pledges us to w r ork in a spirit of real brotherhood, scorning any hospitality of creed, standing together shoulder to shoulder, in no matter what fashion we may severally choose to worship our Maker; standing together to battle for the poor ;.nd oppressed, for the lowly and tne heavy-laden; standing together pledged to fight while our lives last for the great fight of righteousness in this country.”-—Theo-dore Roosevelt. A Test For Indiana. Whatever confusion this campaign may present elsewhere, in Indiana the issue is plain and clear. It is Beveridge against the bosses. No citizen anywhere in the Hoosier commonwealth, whether he performs his duty of going to the polls or not, can escape the responsibility of deciding whether to Itand by this faithful servant of popualr rights and social justice or to stand by those who would destroy him. There is no doubt or hesitation on the part of the two old party machines. They know who threatens their sway, they re united in their desperate-determin-ation to punish Beveride for daring to question their power nd to disobey their commands. The Rlalston crowd are friendly to Durbin, the Durbin crowd is friendly to Ralston. To destroy Beveridge is their mutual undertaking and their common aim, Ralston is a good mad, absolutely beneficiary and the agent of the Taggart machine. He was Taggart’s man in 1908, he is Taggart’s man now. There iS no way for the Anti-Taggart or independent Democrat to strike at the Taggart domination and his. brewery alliances but to vote for Beveridge. The cause which Beveridge advocates is the people’s cause. Durbin is nothing more or less than, the exponent of the Hemen-way-Watson machine. They forced the nomination upon him, they made him run as the most