Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1914 — What Another Democrat Editor Thinks About the Machine). [ARTICLE]

What Another Democrat Editor Thinks About the Machine).

In referring to the recent exposures made by the Marion county grand jury in which a bunch of machine democrats, including Homer L. Cook, now secretary of state, were indicted and the democratic state chairman severely criticised for alleged lobbying before the last legislature and receiving large sums of money for such services from the interests he represented, the Benton Review, the democratic organ of Benton county, among other things says; What the democratic party in Benton county is going to do in 1916 is a question that democrats may well ponder over. This year delegates were sent to all conventions openly and avowedly in favor of the Taggart machine. With* the report of this grand jury staring them in the face there are men in this county who will favor the continuance oi the organization in -the same hands as before. It is needless to say that the Review will continue to oppose the gang rule of the democratic party in the future as it has in the past, and there are \yorse things than losing control of a convention or being beaten at the polls—winning on the wrong side of the issue. We hope of course, that with this grand jury report will come a full realization by the democrats of the state that it is time to change our state organization so that it will be in line with that of the national administration land the highest ideals of citizenship.