Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL NOTES Of Interest to the Voters of Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATIC POLITICAL NOTES Of Interest to the Voters of Jasper County.

Don't fail to come out to the polls' and vote next Tuesday if you have registered and are a legally qualified voter. Remember, there were* enough stay-at-home democrats in Jasper county to have elected our entire county ticket two years ago.. Don't let this happen again. Remember that to vote a straight ticket next Tuesday you make at X within the circle containing the emblem of the party ticket you wish to vote; if you want to vote a m<xed ticket, do not mark within the circle, but make an X in the squae at the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote, and make do other marks whatever on your ballot.

It is a matter of record that two years ago the republican state committee in Indiana expended $95,000 for their campaign in this state, and this, too, bear in mind, has nothing to do with the local contributions. Here is an average of about SI,OOO to each county in the state. And that was not a presidential campaign either. Even that vast sum failed to carry the state. It would be interesting to know how much wil be dumpedjn to try to carry Indiana for the republicans this year.

Remember that a vote for the democratic candidates for con sty commissioner means a vote in favor for the collection of the $2,500 the taxpayers of Jasper county were sw indeled out of by the Winamac Bridge Co., and its return to the pockets of the taxpayers. A democratic board of commissioners has already instituted suit to collect on these amounts; if a republican board is elected, in view of the past inaction of republican commissioners, you need not expect these suits to be pushed nor the money recovered.

A Word As to Geography.

Here is another matter. Mr. Republican Voter, we want to call your attention to before you cast your vote next Tuesday, and that Is the manner in * hicb the Rensselaer “patriots” of your pjarty have gobbled up all the places on your ticket to the exclusion of the thirteen townships of the county. Understand, Rensselaer already has the auditor, clerk, surveyor and coroner, and the county ticket that they ask you to support has not only the last two named from Rensselaer but the recorder and sheriff as well. Do you want every county office filled with men from within gunshot of the court house?

The democratic ticket is made up of men from all sections of the county, as will be seen by examining the ticket printed on the second page of thi 8 paper. Your republican organ dared not publish the location of its county candidates that you might be confronted in every issue with the fact that all but three—in addition to the hold-over offices of auditor and clerk—were located in Rensselaer. Not Marion township, understand, but right in Rensselaer. The location of your candidates was purposely omitted from the ticket published in the Republican for the very reason above stated. Jasper county in area is the second largest county in Indiana, and has thirteen large townships, yet all other parts of the county were ignored and the offices filled up with Rensselaer men, or will be if the republican county ticket is elected next Tuesday.

Have Republicans a Big Slash Fund In Jasper County?

According to the sworn statement of Edgar Dean Crumpacker, republican candidate for congress from this district, required to be filed with the clerk of the house of representatives in Washington, he had spent 1500 up to the time of filing his report of campaign expenses. Monday last. Of this amount >IOO was paid to the treasurer of tfie republican county committee of Jasper county. Benton, Tippecanoe and Warren counties are also given SIOO earh No doubt he will give as much more

which will not be made public until after the election. In view of the past record of the republican machine in Jasper county we may reasonably infer that every roan on the republican county ticket has “contributed” an average of SIOO each. This added to that received from the district candidates would swell their fund to about $1,200. Then comes the usual liberal “contribution" from the state committee, which will probably swell the total amount of the republican campaign fund in Jasper county to $2,000 or $3,000. Now, we want to ask you, Mr. Taxpayer, how any such sum can be used legitimately in this county? Do you believe a half, a third or a tenth part of such a sum can be used for legitimate campaign expenses in Jasper county?

Only a very few speeches have been made in the county, outside of the local speakers who always serve without pay. But if Crumpacker had already contributed SIOO, as he swears he had, before last Monday, and probably as much more before election day, and what one may reasonably expect the other candidates on the county • and district tickets have ponied up, what use can all this money be put legitimately in an agricultural county with a population so small as ours? It is indeed very seldom that the democrats haave, all told, SIOO to pay all the expenses of their campaign in Jasper county, and this contributed, too, by the local democrats, as it is -very little the candidates are expected to put up here. Our legitimate expenses, therefor'* falling within the SIOO mark, how can the opposition expend the vast 0 sums we know have been spent here in the past and do it legitimately? Further comment on the subject ia unnecessary. But don’t forget that Edgar Dean Crumpacker testified under oath that he alone had “contributed” SIOO to the republican campaign fund in Jasper county prior to Monday lost, and may have contributed another SIOO or S2OO thia week.

Looking Backward a Few Years.

It was only a dozen years ago, Mr. Voter, when Mark Hanna was traveling about the country and teMing the people there were no trusts. You remember how Alf McCoy and every republican of prominence in Rensselaer and elsewhere, parrot-like, took up Hanna’s words. It was echoed on the stump. Can you find a republican anywhere todaty who has the temerity to deny that there are trusts and lots of them, or dispute the statements made by the democrats about the existence of thesq iniquitous combines of capital and the danger they were in unless they were curbed? Not a one anywhere. All now admit they have increased to a fearful extent and must be curbed. Only a score of years ago the republicans also told you that the tar- s

iff was not a tax, but if it was the foreigner paid it. That statement also has long ago been sent to their campaign scrap pile and has not been heard on the stump or elsewhere in the last decade. Can you trust the republican machine operators to curb the trusts creatures of their own making—> or make any revision of the tariff in the interest of the masses of the people, in view of their past record. Tnink this over when you go into the booth next Tuesday to mark your ballot and then vote as your own better judgment tells you.

Democratic Speaking at Parr. There will be democratic speaking at Parr tonight by local speakers. Let everyone turn out.