Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1914 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

sinking fund and thereby save to the State $300,C0 annually. This administration has no apologies to offer for the/manner in ■which it handled the State’s finances. It inherited burdens other administrations should have provided for, but it has borne them in a businesslike way and kept faith with the people. If it were necessary to cite additional evidence of the care and business ability th£ present administration has exercised, I would need to do no more than to direct attention to the manner in which it handled the awful flood situation in the spring of 1913. High waters in their madness and fury swept through Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, destroying homes and property beyond description. The disasters it wrought called for immediate relief, and its horrors lingered with, the people like a plague. I immediately set about to provide relief for the people in need thereof. I called for contributions from private sources to a flood relief fund, and distributed the same with the greatest prudence and care of which I was capable. The fund grew rapidly, because of the great generosity of the people, and I believe it will be conceded by my critics that it was honestly administered. Illinois did not suffer from the flood as much as Indiana, yet there was paid out of the public funds of that State on account of the high waters $449,291, whereas there was paid out of the public funds of this State for flood relief less than $12,000, and there is left in the flood fund for future emergencies more than $50,000 now on deposit, drawing interest. I am now ready for the record of my administration to be submitted to a jury of Indiana voters and tax payers; and I will not make a peremptory challenge of a single stand-patter or bull-mooser, who mav desire to sit thereon. A Word on National Affairs. 1 he people of Indiana are not only being well served bv the Democratic party of this State, but they are honored and blessed by having one of the noblest and most masterful men in the world as their President— W oodrow Wilson. He has never had a superior in this great office. He is not only a finished scholar and a profound student of national and international affairs, but he has in the solution of the grave questions, submitted to them, shown practical wisdom of a high order. He has struck the highest note in the statesmanship and civilization of his time, in his short public career. He revised the tariff downward. Under his tariff policy industry and commerce have been released from the shackles that combinations have thrown about them. This will ultimately break the power of monopoly, give the people the advantage of competing markets, and reduce the cost of living. His currency law has already inspired confidence throughout the nation, and although a very unusual condition exists at this time throughout the world, the faith the financiers of this country have in him, and in the future working of this law, inspires confidence among business men, even under the fearful handicap of the foreign wars now affecting the situation.

Our President is maintaining that “A private monopoly is indefensible and intolerable.” In this he is true to the position the Democratic party has long held under the leadership of that great apostle of universal peace and advocate of the emancipation of men, William Jennings Bryan. The President proposes to give the people anti-trust legislation thpt is safe and sane. He is not seeking in his policy to run counter to the honest and sound business of the country. He wants the government and business to be on friendly terms, but he believes the Golden Rule applies in business as it applies between neighbors. He proposes that “Big Business” shall not be bigger than the courts; he proposes to have fair competition in business, unattended by cut throat methods on the one hand, or by extortion on the other.

Back of President Wilson in this campaign stand the unbroken ranks of the Indiana Democracy. We will be led in the support we give him by our nominee for the United States Senate, the brilliant Shively. He has been one of the President’s most valued advisers and his counsel and wisdom on economic and international questions have been a source of great strength to the national administration. Indiana must not hesitate to send our senior Senator back to Washington. The President wants him to come back and the country needs him there; and with him should be returned every Indiana Congressman. They are all familiar with the President’s policies and work with him in harmony.

Our distinguished Vice-President Thomas R. Marshall, and our faithful junior Senator, John W. Kern say Indiana should elect Shively and return with him our present Congressmen. And in the thickest of the fight, battling for the success of the President s policies and the Democratic State ticket, will be found our loyal national committeeman, Thomas Taggart. In the world crisis now threatening the very citidals of civilization there must be no turning away from our national administration. The heads of other nations are watching the people over here, to see Wfhat support they are proposing to give the President’s party in the elections this fall. Maine spoke yesterday—old stand-pat, rock-ribbed Republican Maine and by a Democratic victory she advises other States to stand by the Democratic party.

And why isn’t there wisdom and patriotism in this course? The President is sustaining a strategical relation to the governments of the world for peace. He has wrought so mightily that one really prefers to contemplate his administration in thoughtful silence. He has stretched forth his hand commanding peace in industrial centers, and harmony and good will were speedily restored between employer and employe. He has declared in the face of the bitterest opposition, that the United States and Mexico must not be enemies, and war between them was averted. He is a leader of men, and his life a benediction to mankind.