Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1914 — As to the Indianapolis News. [ARTICLE]

As to the Indianapolis News.

“The new Democratic State Committee will present a solid front against the Indianapolis News, What more there is to do to the News before it really catches on we do not know at this writing. It has been kicked out of the State House, Court House and City Hall, and now every member of the Democratic State Committee is anti-News.” The above is a clipping from “The Herald,” the Taggart-Fairbanks organ of the machine democrats with headquartersat Indianapolis, Terre Haute and French Lick. The paper is edited and published by the notorious George M. Ray, formerly of Shelbyville, Ind., of whom the people of Indiana have heretofore heard of. The writer has been reading the News for twenty years, and has found it usually on the right side of all public questions and the best edited paper we have ever read. Furthermore, the democrats have won no political victories of note in many years when the News has been against them, except, no doubt, some will claim the recent machine victories as such. It has stood for a higher plane of politics, however, than the gang of political freebooters who oppose it have the mental capacity or honesty to comprehend. In warring on the newspapers the late legislature and the TaggartFairbanks machine is only hastening the day when it will be consigned to the scrap pile for keeps. And that day is not far off, either. But the “Boss” Murphy’s of this machine are not hurting the News any by their “sarkasm” and “non-support,” but on the contrary are boosting it with the great masses of democrats who believe in clean politics and anti-machine rule.

With all the braggart of this btinch of salary-grabbing, office extension and general political pilferer's and bosses, it fears the Indianapolis News and other honest newspapers in the state as the devil does holy water, and like the coward who whistles while passing a graveyard at. night, to keep up his courage, it is shaking in its boots for fear it will be run away from the “crib" before it gets all its pockets filled. It is a good thing for the tax-payers of Indiana that the Indianapolis News and other honest and independent newspapers of the state have the courage and unselfishness to condem what is wrong no matter what brand of politics the wrongdoers pre tagged with. Hon. Wililam A. Morris of Frankfort, was a visitor in Rensselaer a few hours Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Mor: is a candidate for the denio<rj nomination for treasurer of s:r , and says in the announcement of his candidacy that. in addition to bein' thoroughly qualified for the position. hi s county of Clinton has never had a democratic officer in the state house, although in recent years the republicans have had two. Also that the democrats of Clinton county have won in the three last general elections there. There are quite a number of aspirants for this nomination, including ex-Mayor Thomas O’Connor of Monticello, whom the Murphy convention at Hammond endorsed for the place last Monday.

From all parts of the country comes the news of renewed activity in all lines of bn siness and in manufacturing since the new currency bill was passed. At Gary alone several thousand men will be put to work Monday in the steel mills who had recently been laid off. The new currency measure is being hailed all over rhe land as a panacea for any financial ills that may occur in the future. Our national administration is certainly making good, thanks to the strong arm of President Wilson. A well known democrat of northern Newton, writes The Democrat and says: “You have my best wishes in your present fight against dirty politics, and I feel confident that 1 the efforts of yourself and other newspaper men in this connection, will result in much good to the democratic party. I hope' that certain so-called democratic leaders may be brought to see the light in this part 1 of the state before our party is entirely overthrown. A prominent out-township democrat characterizes “Boss” Murphy as the Huerta of the democratic party in the Tenth district.