Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1915 — Will Not Stand for Boss Rule. [ARTICLE]

Will Not Stand for Boss Rule.

Everybody knows that Theodore Roosevelt spoke the truth and rendered an important pjibltc service when he denounced the bi-partisan combinations between corrupt business and corrupt politicians, and when, like the brave man he is, he pained the members of that conspiracy. The great and forceful figures of our day have been brave men who dared to defy these arrogant dictators of public affairs and offer to lead the people in a battle to recover control of their own government. Johnson, LaFollette, Clapp, Lindsey, Pinchot, Robins. The verdict at Syracuse, therefore, is in accordance with liberty and progress, as well as with the law. It helps to set the stamp of .approval upon the leaders of social, industrial and economic reform, and to brand as undesirable and hopeless any and every attempt to restore the reign of invisible government. Discredited politicians in every state who are planning to ride into power again upon a supposed restoration of special privilege and its unscrupulous political agents, may wisely profit by this sign of the times. The day will never come when the American people will turn again to the crowd it so thoroughly repudiated in 1912.—Indianapolis Star.