Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1916 — INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER [ARTICLE]

INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER

(By Willis S. Thompson) Indianapolis,' July 6.——Word comes from all parts of Indiana that large numbers of Republicans are going to support the whole Democratic ticket in 1916. One of the largest manufacturers in the state said only the other day that the federal reserve act was enough to win his vote and all his influence for the national ticket. “Under the old order.” he said, “we were afraid to contract ahead far enough to keep our business going. We did not knew what day we might be shut off in securing raw materials for future orders. Today we are contracting a year ahead and doing more business than our capacity can handle We still have to enlarge and we are not producing war munitions either. We feel and know we are safe. “How any sane business man can see any other way than to support a party that has the courage and good sense tb give us such a law in fhce of the Wall street opposition, is more than I can see. I have always been a Republican, but politics with me is not merely following a party emblem to vote certain men into office. It is business alike for the

business man and the employe and the sooner we all recognize that fact, the better for the whole country. I am a Democrat now because the Democratic party is the party of good business sense. “Republicans are going to have plenty to do to find any argument that may lead people to support them in face of the facts. When you come to consider the state ticket great gins, look at the men nomina’ -d on the Republican ticket. They represent nothing this year but the desire to get into office. What high or unselfish motive did the men managing the Republican conven tion at Chicago show, either in selecting a andidate or adopting a platform? The Democrats have certainly giv< n us something in the handling of state institutions, in progressive legislation, in payment o the state debt, and we might name a long list. They are doing things for the people’s good and have something on which to ask our suffrage. * * » Will if. Hayes, acting as Republican stat machine manager, did a good job of it when he spent twe days telephoning Progressive ■-ounty chairmen, asking them to stay away from the Progressive meeting and attend the Watson-New love feast He got 15b leaders to the Progressive meeting and not one of them to his own affair. Besides deciding t: name a full state Progressive ticket op July 20, the delegates were sure that all who do not vote as Progressives will votA for Wood row Wilson and the Democratic state ticket They were especially certain that as Progressives they will never vote for Fairbanks, New, Watson or Goodrich. Since that includes Hughes that will be about all. • • An interesting report has just been made on vocational education workin Indiana during the year. No law that the Democratic legislature pass -d has met with such glorious and guick response from the people. Its benefits are so pronounced and at once effect the individual and the community. The report of Dr. Book, in charge of the work, says by the way of introduction: “Substantial and encouraging pro gress has been made during the year in every part of the vocational work. Vocational departments and schools for industrial and domestic science education numbering 113 have been established to date, with a total enrollment of 12,186 students this fiscal year, a net gain for the year in these two branches of the vocational work of 55 schools and 4,617 students. not including the enrollment “of two centers, Crawfordsville and Salem, whose reports are not yet in Preliminary arrangements have also been made for organizing vocational schools in five other centers in the state.” • • • Harry New told some Indianapolis Republicans the other night that he “can not consider any man his friend who is not Jim Watson’s friend also.” No doubt, lots of people will be glad lie looks at it that way. Since Jim says the same thing about Harry it will be easy to accommodate them both and support neither, they both told us during the primary campaign, that neither was fit to go on the ticket and they were probabiy both right, though we would not have advanced th save for their frankness. •'' • The auxiliary to the Indiana national guard, formed by business men of Indianapolis to look after the families of guardsmen who go to the front when called, can do worlds of good. They make better soldiers of the men at the front by relieving them of anxiety fcr loved ones back home. This is not a matter of charity, it is a matter of right. The man at the front makes tremendous sacri lice—his family is bereft at his go-ing—-he takes the chance of never coining back.' He is fighting for the men who remain at home. The men at home are not only looking to it that the families of the soldiers do not want, but they are doing their part to see that the soldiers at the front are properl.v supplied with things needful. As Dr, Barnard has said: “The most important feature of assuring army efficiency and health is the work of the men and women back home, seeing that their supplies are wanting in nothing.” The best testimonial to the excellent work done in vocational education in Indiana is that in 1907. The annual meeting of the national organization will meet at Indinanapolis.. The national association makes it a point to meet in a state where vocational education is making the greater progress, and where best results are being accomplished. Indiana now holds that position.