Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

POLITICAL SPEAKING. . Egypt—Oct: 16. Oct. 16—Pleasant Grove, body invited to attend. Progressive Speaking. EveryNewton (Blue Grass) —-Oct. 17. Milroy (Center) —Oct. 18.

of those who worked the old machine in June and we can not find one who helped to preserve the Union or anything else, except his private interests. Thousands of former Republicans decline to vote for Barnes and Penrose and Guggenheim because they believe an Indorsement of those persons would be a national calamity.

Mr. Taft is in a position to preserve the protective system. Mr. WHlson and the Democratic party are bent on destroying that system. The Progressive party and Theodore Roosevelt purpose to adhere to the protective principle and bring about honest protection on a business basis, with benefits distributed' fairly among the people. Mr. Roosevelt is the man to whom the people look. The bosses put Mr. Taft out of the running last June.

We are now being shown a bewildering confusion of figures to prove that Taft was really the choice of a majority of the Republican voters during the third week of June, 1912. The explainers are perspiring freely. It will take many a sheet of paper and many a lead pencil to convince the unbiased spectator on the side lines that the colonel had no claim on any of these delegates.

It is not to be forgotten that when (•he bosses set aside the Roosevelt delegates and renominated Taft, they also set aside the primary verdicta of rank and file millions of Republicans In all the great republican states. Nobody has yet explained why these primary majorities were ignored or rejected by the bosses. Nobody, as yet, has defended this absurd action of the bosses.

■Mr. Taxpaye, the Democrats have crats at the State House have not yet explained why it cost $1,000,000, more In 1911 to pay salaries and expenses of standing boards and commissions than it cost in 1908.

Groundhog statesmanship digs a hole in the public treasury and dodges into the hole whenever the sunlight of publicity rises to dieclose the facts. Nov. 5 will be ‘groundhog day at the Indiana State House.

Col. Durbin was especially unlucky in attacking the record of Beveridge as chairman of the committee on territories. That record was wholly admirable and of a standard high in real courageous statesmanship.

Eivery nonprodiicer wearing an extra chin of two and sitting in a padde<| chair, waiting for the turn of the ticker to give him something for nothing, is against the colonel and regards him as “dangerous.”

The members of the new party may be traitors and ingrates, but out here in the middle west they are so serene in their infamy that some of them are still regarded as patriotic Democrats and Republicans.

Mr. Taxpeyer, the Taggart Democrats have not yet explained why in th 6 salaries of regular officers, deputies and clerks there was an increase of more than <30,000 in 1911 as compared xVith 1908. ' ' ' <■ Let us hope that Dr.' Hurty’s survey ,of Bartholomew County will be more valuable than the job he did on the democratic ticket when he surveyed Marshall as a bigger man than Wilson. \ Primary majorities for Roosevelt in all the great Republican states , speak louder than James E. Wat- ; son’s “defense” of the Taft renomination by the national committee. Mr. Taxpeyer, the Democrats have I not yet explained why it coat more t than $196,000 more to run the State | House in 1911 than it cost in 1908, ( the biggest former year.