Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1915 — And There Are Some Such "Democrats” Here Also. [ARTICLE]

And There Are Some Such "Democrats” Here Also.

The arrest of about all the politicians of Terre Haute -under indictments in the United States court wil] be a bigger blow to the machine tljat dominates the' democrat party than the Indianapolis indictments of the officers of the last legislature; who were acquitted By a partisan judge and prosecutor. In this case Judge Anderson will preside, and if one may hazard an opinion by his past record, there will be no particular leniency shown the defendants in this case. The fact that Donn Roberts has been a candidate for governor to succeed Ralston is one of the defendants will help arouse the people of the state to the danger which confronts them in letting ‘an organization which sells its influence for money control the political affairs of the state. Nothing Donn Roberts, and his followers have done equals in infamy what the Indianapolis grand jury accused State Chairman Korbley of doing—selling the legislature for his private profit—and yet in spite of all this there will be democrats in this county who will want to deliver the party into the same hands in 1916—more’s the shiaine. One of the best New Year resolutions our democratic readers chn make is to be independent of this influence, jand see that the democrat party represents the highest ideals of citizenship, andnot the lowest.—Benton Review.