Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1915 — WORTHY OF STUDY. [ARTICLE]

WORTHY OF STUDY.

V.Tlen, as in the Terre Haute election § cases, one is told by witnesses under oath, many of them, that a mayor took active part in debauching registration and election; that a candidate for judge was connected with the rotten business; that a sheriff actively assisted in paying out corruption money; that a prosecutor and deputy, the police force, the controller and many other public officers did their several parts in carrying forward the infamous job, one is moved to ponder seriously what interests and what influences have been at work to bring official life to the present Terre Haute and Vigo county level.

Nor does one seek far in order to locate the seat of the disease. In a, reckless and ruthless alliance of evil the liquor interests, the gamblers, the . illicit dives and corrupt busiinterests of other sorts, regardless of pretended party affiliations, have combined to debase a city ana exploit a community. The lines and interwoven relations of the formidable machine run crookedly and deviously in many directions. To throw out the combination bodily might mean to grub for the roots of the political upas tree in many yards heretofore not involved in the scandal.

Just now a small army of the “lower-downs”, is being hauled over the coals by an outraged public. In the meantime what is to be done about the “men higher up,” the big profit-takers in the deal? In the meantime what is being done to rescue Terre Haute and Vigo county and other Indiana cities from the wreckage and ruins, wrought by the sinister interests which debauch politics?—-In'diana Daily Times.