Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

POLITIC.! L SPEAK I NG. Tuesday. Oct. 22—West Vernon. Wednesday, Oct. 23—Parr Thursday. October 24—-Gl iodate. Friday. October 25—Nev land and Blake school. Saturday. October 26—Fair Oaks. .

Dear Editor:—As there is a misunderstanding as to toy being a candidate for commissioner for the 2nd district, to a number of the people, 1 wish to state that I was perhaps the fault in part I did not state to the Progressive committee that I would not accept the nomination, but 1 did say that I did not want it. I had an opportunity to accept the nomination ‘‘or the same office on the Republican ticket, previous to this, which I objected to, as I did not want any office. I rejected both times. If 1 wanted to come out for an office I would be proud to come out on the Progressive ticket as I think it is the best platform of any party in existenece, with leaders that call not be excelled. I am Progressive from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet. ELIAS ARNOLD.

want to be king when his followers already regard him as an Ace. It is better to be a half block ahead of the parade than two ipiies in the rear. The Wall Street conception of a' perfectly good President is one who will never make a move for fear of upsetting a stack of chips. The members of the new party may be traitors and ingrates, but out here in the Middle West they a*.e so serene In their Infamy that some of them are still regarded as patriotic Democrats or Republicans. Every non-producer wearing an extra chin or two and sitting in a padded chair, waiting for the turn of a ticker to give him something for nothing is against the Colonel and regards him as "dangerous.” A few days ago the voters at one of our Indiana colleges had a secret ballot for President and Governor. The so-called Republican ticket named at Chicago in June received fifty votes in a total of six hundred and thirteen, or a little over eight per cent. The remaining votes were almost equally divided between Wilson and Roosevelt. Beveridge, for Governor, received 369 votes. The Democratic candidate received 98 votes, and the Republican candidate 52 votes. The iyoung men who read and think and who look to the future instead of brooding over the misunderstandings of the past are overwhelmingly in favor of the Progressive policies and Progressive candidates.

A good many old-line Republicans sincerely believe that every man who refrains from voting the ticket forced through by the bosses is indirectly voting against Abraham Lincoln and Oliver P. Morton. We have looked over the list of those who worked the old machine in June and we cannot find one wlfb helped to preserve the Union or anything else except his private interests. Thousands of ex-Republicans decline to vote for Barnes and Penrose and Guggenheim because they believe an indorsement of these persons would be a national calamity. 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 those delegates. After» the Payne-Aldrich tariff bill was passed and the Winona speech was made, it became a moral cinch that Mr. Taft could not be re-elected in 1912. This fact was emphasized at the Congressional elections of 1910. Wherever the voters had a fair chance at primaries last Spring it became evident that the weakness of Mr. Taft was almost spectacular. All the straw votes and newspaper polls and non-partisan canvasses up to this moment prove that the temper of the voters has not changed. When we get up on the morning after the election and survey the blasted remnants of what was once the Republi- ( Continued On Eighth Page.)