Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1915 — As Viewed by the Democratic Organ. [ARTICLE]

As Viewed by the Democratic Organ.

It is probable that the present Indiana legislature will pass a eugenics law which will apply only to men. Senator Neal's bill to provide for a physical examination for males before applying for a license for marriage, passed the senate last week by a vote of 32 to 12. Indiana is sure to have an antilobby law, and the bill will probably go to the governor for his signature this week. It carries an emergency clause, thereby taking effect immediately after it is signed by the governor. Under its provisions, it is said, the activities of county and township officials ■will be curtailed ’in their* onslaughts on the legislature Jor increases of salaries, which, through their organizations, have been active in every' legislature in recent years.

In speaking of Congressman Peterson's reprehensible policy of ousting republican postmasters, on flimsy an( i trumped up charges, before their commissions expire, the Benton Review, the democratic or-

gan of Benton county, says of the matter at Fowler: It does not take any argument to prove that Mr. John B Peterson, though once elected to congress, and now a candidate for governor, is not a politician, because of all the other democratic congressmen elected to office in Indiana, he is the only one who has not been able to maintain himself. There was Adair, elected congressman in a district as strongly republican as the Tenth at that time, and after serving 8 or 10 years seems to be a fixture—and a politician of the first water. We do not know what evil spirit urged Mr. Petersdn on to prefer charges against a man as inoffensive politically and as popular as Mr. Hampton, but it is the same lack of broad vision that resulted in tying up his political fortunes with Charles Murphy. If it was another trade for delegates to the next state convention and the putting of his representative here upon a salary basis, his lack of foresight did not warn him, that Mr. Hampton having been unjustly deprived of the office, his friends will be liable to file charges against the new appointee the minute he attempts to mix in politics after receiving a commission as postmaster and therefore Mr. Peterson has achieved nothing new but the ill will of Mr. Hampton’s friends. We believe that everyone in this-commun-ity expected and would approve of the appointment of a democratic nostmaster when a vacancy occurred, but the removal of Mr. Hampton has made it- another story, and adds nothing to his credit.