Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1914 — Thinks We Should Let Well Enough Alone. [ARTICLE]

Thinks We Should Let Well Enough Alone.

Editor Democrat; For forty-four years 1 have been a voter in Indiana, and every two years of these forty-four, I have heard the party out of power bewailing the management of state affairs. Tn my early voting years, the tale of woe—the party out of power so sorrowfully told —often gave me great concern.

In all these years there has been one theme that has never failed to be biennially dinned into the voter’s ears, “the horrible acts of the last legislature.”

What are the facts? In these forty-four years through the enactmenUof good and wholesome laws, through intelligent and efficient management our state in many, many important things, stands among the first of the union. It has been through both democratic and republican rule that this eminence has been attained. In these forty-four years we have had #ix democrat and live republican governors.

Ours is a great state, and none of its greatness has been lost under the rule of the present administration. Of the laws made by the last legislature, many of them were of the very best. Perfection In human works has not yet been fully reached, so legislation and government management, for a time, at least, may not always be just what everybody likes. There is too much unjust and unreasonable criticism being indulged in this campaign. ,

A sense of honor, a desire to succeed well in the management of public affairs are incentives that lead almost every man in office to try to do the best he can. The men who have control of our state have been influenced by these natural desires, and their work, in the main, has been well and faithfully done.—AN OLD VOTER.