Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1916 — INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LEITER. [ARTICLE]

INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LEITER.

By Willis S. Thompson.

. —> -• i Indianapolis, Feb. 17. - Mayor R. , O Johnson of Gary, who thimght he J <.?..ted to Be the Republican candidate for governor of Indiana, has 1 '♦etided “there is no chance.” jje has looked upon the distribution of more than $?I00,0lm by each of his primary opponent- andordered how much more th- y will spend be-/ fore March 7. and h«- say 3 In -is “firmly convinced that even Oliver P Morton, ln<j-ana’s greatest gov-J e: nor. could not have ).,-n nominated in IS 30," with such bundles of ■ rfleney being u?ed against him. He' should have quoted also from one colour newspaper- which declared j • hat Abraham Lincoln could never have been nominated in lour under conditions such as tills 1:»1 G Republican primary is showing, for the big interests which are pouring their nrdney into the campaign for the Republican machine candidates do not support nien like Lincoln and Morton. Voters ate looking with some degree of alarm upon an expenditure of fully a half million dollars by the Republican state central machine and the men it trill’ support in the election. The people are interested in asking why candidates and their backers can afford to pay such fabulous sums to secure the nomination as candidates for state offices. The big interests which boast of their liberal contributions usually find a way to get their money back with large interest when they can elect and boss governors, and auditors, and treasurers, and public service commissioners, and industrial boards, and tax commissioners and the like, mich as they are now aiming' to control through the Republican party. The voters can not

forget how Republicans saddled a debt of more than $2,000,000 on the state and that the Democrats throu’gh economical business management have paid this debt. ■. —o—o— statement has been published that McCray has mortgaged his farm for ready cash to keep up his fight in the Republican primary. He has also sold some of the prize heads of his several Hereford herds. Putting some bull into’the Republican campaign ’

--o—coIndiana Republicans and' Progressives were both much interested in the published accounts' of how Frank J. Hitchcock is planning the campaign of 1910. When Mr. Hitchcock was managing the administration of W illiam H. Taft and dealing out pa-tronage-he sort of got to hankering for the job. So he is preparing to Pick the Republican candidate for I9IG. has elected hjmself national chairman and after making .Justice

Charles L. Hughes President, Hitchcock is to get his old job of post-j master general and is alreadv prom-! is. the patronage. In sending out his announcements this is the word- ' ing; “Mr. Hitchcock js> to be chair-1 man of the national committee and again postmaster general, therefore Ibe dispenser of patronage, and those who indorse his views ; mi' support Hughes as Pcrsidential candidate will receive commensurate consideration afterward. The arrangement is to not antagonize ! Roosevelt, because it will surely be Hughes or Roosevelt.” Justice Hughes says he will have none oi it. In th; t case Mr. Hitchcock ' says 'it must be Roosevelt lie may be I y .. '■'—-'o—T-O--r* In the first four months of the : operation of the industrial board of ; Indiana, there were. fi.SGo accidents reported. In the fifth month there ””!’<> 2.6G0, making the total for five months 12,520. In the four months there were 65 deaths and in the fifth month there were 23. jnak>ng in all 88. In four months 1,582 cases of accident were settled and f'9o of these finally closed, the other ’92 still drawing compensation. Of all accidents in the four months 83 per cent were of less duration than I 1 days, thus being entitled <o no compensation. The total sum paid in benefits in four months was $38,072.62. The Indiana board is one of the very few in the United States that is fully up with its work and that is operating on most economic lines. The results it has achieved are most/ satisfactory as demonstrated by the very few cases that have been contested by either side.