Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1916 — STATE TICKET [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

STATE TICKET

For Governor JOH N A M. AI»AIII oi l onland For Lieut ena nt -G over nor MASON J. NIBLACK of Y-heehiies ■ For United States Senator ( Long term. V JOHN Vv. KERN ~ of indiauapolis For United States Senator (Shor; term) THOMAS TAGGART of Freii'-li Lick For Secretary of State HOMER L. COOK of Indianapolis For Auditor of State HALE J. crittexberger of Anderson For Treasurer of State GEORGE A. BITTLER of Fort Wayne For Att ornev-General EVAN B. STOTSEXBURG of New Albany For Supreme Court (Second district) DOUGLAS MORRIS of Rushville For Supreme Court (Third district) CHARLES E. COX of Indianapolis For Appellate Court (Northern division) JAMES J. MORAN of Portland For Reporter of Supreme Court PHILLIP ZOERCHER of Tell City For Judge Appellate Court (First district 1 JOHN C. McNCTT of Martinsville

For State Superintendent of Public Instruction SAM URL L. SCOTT of New Albany For State Statistician S. \V. KAXX . of Li bonier For Deleua'es-at-I.arae BE.XJ A MIX F. BOSSE of Evansville W. H. O BHI EX of Lawrence,burg JOILX W. KERX of Indianapolis STEPHEN R. FLEMING of Fort Wayne For Alternate Delegates-at-Large ALVIN PADGETT of Washington GEORGE \V. BRILL of Danville TCDGE ALOXSO BLAIR of Sheibyville A. A. OAST of Warsaw President!:! 1 Electors-at-Large EVANS WOOLLEN of Indianapolis f MEREDITH NICHOLSON of I ndia napolis Contingent Electors-at-Large S. M. FOSTER of Fort Wavne / LEW (SHANNON of Corydon DISTRIt T TICKET For Representative in Congress Tenth District ’ GEORGE K. !IE FISHMAN of Crown Point For .1 oint-Re present ati ve .Ta mper, Benton and Newton Counties GARL LAMB of Benton county * For Prosecuting Attorney, 30th Judicial Circuit C ARTHERTCTEFR Gt" -aol-Vni*

THE PRESIDENTS SPEECH I The account of almost any man’s | experiences is ini •l—sting. But when | the man -happens to he President of, j the United States, and the experrj ern es are those through which Mr. jYV il.-on has gone in the last three j years, the etoiy has a world-wide ( appeal. No one dreamed that within little more than a year after the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson half the world would be at war. That is an experience that was not and could not have been foreseen. It has bdhn a momentous one both for the President and the nation. It is true, as the speaker said in his address before the National Press club, that when “we are dealing with domestic affairs we are dealing witA things that to us as Americans are more or less calculable.” But these words are also true:

When the fortunes of your own country are, so to say, subject to the incalculable winds of passion that are blowing through other parts of the then the strain is of a singular and unprecedented kind, because you do not know by what turn of the wheel of fortune the control of things is going to be taken out of your hand. It makes no difference how deep the passion lies, that pas-, sion may be overborne by the rush of fortune in circumstances like those which now exist. Any one can see that for the last two years, the foreign affairs of this government have not been wholly within its own hands, since war might have been forced on us by the action of another government. The choice would indeed have been ours,

but the circumstances making it necessary would not have been of our creating. This country assuredly wants peace. Of that there can be no doubt. But it is not willing co pay an exorbitant price for it. Possibly peace would have been broken long before this had not the administration and the American people alike felt that “the present quarrel has carried those engaged in it 'so far that the?' can not be held to ordinary standards of responsibility." It was and is necessary to insist on respect for international law ami American rights, but it was also necessary to remember that not one of the belligerent nations is wholly the master of itself and its mind.Furthermore, the I'nited States can not stand wholly to one side, since L is. as we are reminded, a moral rqwer, and. so its influence must be felt. ' :

Of course, Mr. WiL-joa’s advice to the press is sound, lie urged that the correspondent- 'beware of rumors and ' remarks." since at such a time as this these ' are exceedingly dangerous. The newspapers, whether the? realize it or not. are. in a sense. :• part of the government. That is why it is tiigir duty to co-operate with it as far as they can, and certainly to avoid doing anything to embarrass it in difficult and delicate negotiations. As a rule, the newspapers of this country have borne themselves well. Some have not. and they ought to take to heart the President's advice. The , speech of the President i£; exceedingly interesting, as we have said. But more than that, it is in excellent and in at least two particulars terprets the thoughts of the people. For it is clear that they are strongly for peace, and quite as clear that they desire to do their duty. In spite of all our differences there is here a unity which we do not always realize. And it may be that out of these days of strife and turmoil may bt horn a greater national consciousness, At any rate that will be the iiope of all true Americans.- Indianapolis News.