Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1914 — Newton Township Call. [ARTICLE]

Newton Township Call.

' an. Notice is hereby given to the democratic voters of Newton townsh n a »f d t .°. otherß in said town£>~g h asssvii eT7 t ~oase *» »♦ •> April 25, 1014, P f ° r the Purpose of nominating a township ticket, in-

Bro. Moorman, of the Starke County Republican, while a rampant republican of the stand-pat order and a calamity howler —for political effect —from away back, occasionally gets on the right side of a public question, and here is what he says of the canal tolls position taken by the President: "President Wilson is right in his contention that no special favors he shown any r • als at Panama. Why should turn country spend millions in digging the canal and then permit the free use of it by any merchant vessel, even an American vessel? Special favors in such Instances are not warranted. The Panama canal is a business proposition in the last analysis, and the rresident is right in so regarding it.”

Sam Wells, editor of the Scott Journal, was a candidate for secretary of state before the late democratic state convention. He went down to defeat. In a recent issue, of his paper Mr. Wells said: "We want it distinctly understood that we have no personal feeling, or animosity toward Hon. Thomas Taggart for the part he took against us for Homer L. Cook in the race for secretary of state. We are still friends and will remain so. He used the road roller with deliberate and well calculated and seeming brutality iu favor of Cook. But we know that there was nothing personal to us—that it was purely a matter o. politics. We can say and we want to say it in Mr. ‘ Taggart's behalf, that he never gave us the double cross.’ He frankly told us six months ago that he was i i..:-; -i'-en li's promise - ' !'ok- ''styis promise. On the day before the convention - : lankly and in the kindliest spirit said he intended to ■put Cook over.- So we have no harsh criticism, but on the contrary only the kindliest feeling for Tom Taggart. But the fact that Mr. Taggart is able to nominate a state ticket so far as he cared to has shown the absolute necessity of a state-wide primary.”