Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1916 — INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

INDIANAPOLIS NEWS LETTER

By Willis S. Thompson.

Indianapolis, August 28; —United States Senator Thomas Taggart vrites to Chairman Bernard Korbly of the Democratic state central committee, that he expects to be in Indiana soon after the first of September when congress adjourns. s He declares that he will rest two or three days and then get ‘‘into the mix.” He says if necessary he will camp by the roadside every! night in order, if possible, that he may cover the entire state. He will travel by automobile. He will not • indulge in any long speeches, but 1 will aim to see as many people as possible in the brief time allowed him for making his campaign. There is a great demand made on the speakers bureau to have Senator Taggart present at all meetings, no matter who the other speakers may be. He is just as anxious to meet and see the people as they are anxious to see and hear him, since hie speeches in the senate have been some of the best, so far as good business sense is concerned, that have ever been made in that body. The people of Indiana are anxious to meet and know personally the man who has had the courage to assail systems of extravagance, which have existed for many years. "Democratic politicians apparently are coAducting a very energetic gumshoe campaign to spread the impression that prosperity is due to the present administration,” says the Indianapolis Star in an editorial ‘Spatting the people next.” Bless your heart the Democrats are proclaiming this good news from the housetopr. ""uy gumshoes? The Republicans have covered the gum-

shoe market. But when the Star says “prosperity is not due to the! Democrats” it is getting entirely off the reservation. It is completely out of harmony with the party. Candidate Hughes says “there is no prosperity.” We simply live in aj fool’s paradise and think we are prosperous. The Democrats have' made it impossible for people to' make a living.’’ Right in the face ' of this the Star assures us that we j are prosperous. It is like the can-! didate, in first telling us the Demo- ! crats “did not bring prosperity” and 1 then failing to give us any idea | what did bring it. Probably the • candidate brought it by some of his decisions as a supreme court justice? Who knows? —o —o— Candidate Goodrich seems very, much annoyed about the state oil and gasoline inspection law, and what he calls its extravagant man- ■ agement by the Democrats. The fees were fixed by the Republicans , when they passed the law. These 1 fees are the same today. The law ■ i.» a revenue producer for the state ' the revenues produced to the state and the protection to the people in watching the standard of oil and gasoline being sold, depends upon* the efficiency with which the in- \ specters do their work. Increased revenues indicate increased efficiency in enforcing all the provisions of the law. It makes no difference to the people whether the fees'are all paid to a few men or to many men, since he total amount is the same. But there should be enough men to | make the work thorough. Under! the Republicans, with a true follower of Goodrich and Watson and Hemenway and Kealing, the revenues turned into the state treasury were $35,386.90. The Democrats in 1915 turned into the state i treasury $91,712.65. Under the j Democrats the people received $56,325.75 more than under the Republicans in a single year. Are the | taxpayers peeved because of this increase? The Indianapolis Star also declares that while child labor legis- : lation is an excellent thing, the Democrats are not to be credited with its enactment. Certainly not. The Star is more definite in this editorial than in most of the really funny things it says for it tells thai the “Republicans talked about child labor when that party controlled the congress and white house,” or words to that effect. Therefore, the Republicans deserve credit for child, labor legislation passed by the Democratic congress the other day, and that men who were in the congress “are to be congratulated that the good law is finally passed.” —-o —o—■ The American Locomotive company reports net profits In 1916 of $10,769,000 as compared with a deficit of $1,500,000 in 1915, says the Indianapolis News in an editorial. Candidate Hughes, Jim Hemenway, Leslie Shaw and Joe Kealing please copy for use in their calamity feampaign literature. o O Candidate Goodrich and Jim Wat- i son and Jim Hemenway and Joe | V.

Kealing and Harry New and Tobe Hert, and all 'the rest of the managers and bosses of the Republican machine in Indiana, profess to be -horrified at the terrible extravagance of paying sixty-two cents a day for the housing, attendance, medical care, clothing, food, medicine, and all other things necessary to the proper care of each inmate of the Central Hospital for the insane. If any of their personal friends, or members of their own families, were housed at this State institution, would they consider 62 cents a day too much to spend for all th£se attentions? Do they really mean to tell other persons who have friends or relatives among these unfortunate patients, that the Republicans propose to cut this to less? Do they believe the people of the great state of Indiana will have any sympathy with this talk? Will the Republican machinists who are hungry for office dare advocate repeal of any of the Democratic laws tljat have been enacted for the proper care of the educational, benevolent and correctional institutions? Like Candidate Hughes they scold and offer nothing constructive.

The Republicans made the staib debt. The Democrats paid the state debt. The Democrats used the state sinking fund tax to pay debts. The Republicans used the state sinking fund tax to pay the boys and perpetuate a political machine. The Democratic legislature will repeal the sinking fund tax levy in January, 1917, because there is no longer any debt to be paid. For the first time in 84 years the state of Indiana is out of debt because Democrats paid. —o —o — Candidate Hughes told one of his audiences “out West” that “I am here because I have a vision of what America needs.’ To which the New York World says, “If Mr. Hughes says he has a vision we are bound to believe him; but what i? it?” And the New York Herald, which is trying to support Hughes, says “Mr. Hughes should stop finding fault with Mr. Wilson and enunciate some constructive policies of his own.” Why thus cruelly pursue the gentleman who says he is “one hundred percent a candidate,” by propounding questions that embarass? Probably he has no policies of his own. Besides he has left many important questions unanswered. Again his “vision” may be like his polices, something too intimate and too sacred to be discussed in public. —o —O — The annual outing of the Indiana Democratic Editors’ association, occupying three days at Michigan City, under the chaperonage of State Senator Faulkner, Mayor Krueger and Warden Fogarty of the state prison, was not the largest attended on record but there was enough real good entertainment for a host of ten thousand. Candidates who could not attend sent regrets and acceptable excuses, and Dale J. Crittenberger, George A. Bittler, Phil Zoercher and Fred Van Nuys did the honors of speechmaking, in answer to much hospitality extended by the good people of Michigan City. —o —o — If William Holton Dye, the man from whom dangles the can tied by the Indiana Progressives is going to make good on his public promise to remove Charles Warren Fairbanks from the Republican ticket, he should do it before Charlie finds out he has been nominated. Jim Hemenway and Joe Kealing are getting up a surprise party on Charlie for August 31st and are threatening to tell him about it. John A. M. Adair, Democratic candidate for governor, is speaking one or more times each day and he is being greeted everywhere by audiences both large and enthusiastic. Sent from a strong Republican district to the congress for ten successive years, with majorities as high as 10,000 where they were originally 12,00 0 or more Republican, his present campaign for governor is bringing the same sort of response as his appearance in years past in the Eighth district. —o—o— Senator, Taggart, wUo is making an enviable record at Washington, says he would like to see the civil service law amended to require the occasional examination of occupants of soft snaps protected by the present laws. He says he doubts if onethird of the persons who have held easy jobs for years in the government service could answer the fool questions put to applicants for places under the civil service and that they ought to be made to take their chances with the outsider trying to break in. You are right, Senator. Give everybody a chance and make each one stand on his or her own merits. End the soft snaps. —Marion . Leader Tribune. Subscribe for The Democrat.