Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1914 — Some Old Standpats. [ARTICLE]

Some Old Standpats.

Head the roll: In New York, Barnes; in Pennsylvania, Penrose; in Ohio, Foraker; in Illinois, Cannon. in Indiana. Watson and Hemenway. The chain is unbroken. These same in influences and the same men that dominated the republican party in the days of its decline are today trying to revitalize it and regain their ascendancy. The attempt to disassociate the Indiana leadership of the party from Penroseism is absurd. What Penrbseism is to Pennsylvania, so is the dominant influence in the republican party of Indiana today. The same figures in Indiana who shared with Penrose the responsibility of wrecking the republican party are today dividing with Penrose the herculean task of resuscitating it upon the old plane. To the progressive republicans of Indiana there is a trumpet call in the complete repudiation by the New York Tribune, solid old party organ, of Penrose and all that Penroseism stands for.

Equally significant is the repudiation of Penrose by J. Benjamin Dimmick, the candidate for the senatorial nomination against Penrose. Their message to the whole country is to defeat Penroseism, in whatever guise of local color It appears. Penroseism isn’t confined to Pennsylvania. It reaches to New York, to Ohio, to Indiana, to Illinois, to every state where the old close corporate machine raises its head.—lndianapolis Star.