Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1915 — DISREPTABLE POLITICS. [ARTICLE]

DISREPTABLE POLITICS.

We have received a copy of the ■anonymous attack upon Billy Blodget, of the Indianapolis News. Even if the charges against/ his personal character were true, we should hold in contempt tW~party' who is thus too cowardly to make an attack in the open. There is a gang down at Indianapolis which “has it in" for the News, because, we suppose, the News is outspoken against wrongdoers of all parties, whose thick hides have been penetrated by Blodgett’s sharp pen.—-Winamac Demo crat- Journal. Yes, The Democrat received one of these circulars, and it is presumed one was sent to every “flemocratic editor in the state. In fact, the notorious George M. Ray, of the Indiahapolis Herald, says that one was sent to ajll the democratic editors and to every member of the legislature, and ho doubt he knows all afrbut it. But lapparently everyone has viewed the matter the same as The Democrat-Journal, and neither believe the charges nor indorse the methods of . the gang of political pirates behind the attack. During the recent campaign, our own district chairman, ‘ Boss" Murphy of the public service;coin juissipn, went up and down the district denouncing the Indianapolis Neds and making personal attacks on W. 11. Blodgett, the well known >p -eial correspondent t’o that paper: Murphy’s bellowings did not increase the admiration of the people for Murphy nor iii any way injure the News or Mr. Blodgett, , If the gang of machine politicians who have fought the News so bitterly, because of its opposition to their disreptable methods of campaign, had paid a little more attention to the editorial advice of the News, and less to attacking it from the stump and through newspapers of the caliber of Geqrge 4 M. Ray’s Herald, our party would not be in the deplorable condition that it now is in Indiana.