Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — CAN FORGET IF NECESSARY [ARTICLE]

CAN FORGET IF NECESSARY

We noticed last week in a local paper what purported to be the number of Republicans and Democrats voting at the primaries in doubtful states and the assumption made that the preponderance of Republicans was so large that Hughes could not be defeated. Here is another set of facts enthusiastic dyed-in-the-wool Republicans have forgotten. In 1910 the Democrats carried eighteen of these solid “Republican states” by popular majors ties, on the nation issue of the tariff. Wilson carried them again in 1912 and the Democrats carried congress again in 1914. In six years a good many of the old men who formed their political opinions during the Civil war period died and several millions of young men have become voters with the Democrats in power and the machinery running smoothly. There is no reason the men who voted for Democratic congress in 1910 should not be voting the ticket yet. In 1912 some 59,000 Democrats did not vote the ticket in Indiana. If they come back when there is only two tickets in the field, good-bye Indiana to the Republicans even if the laboring men and farmers were not running a contest as to which could give Wilson the biggest boost.—Benton County Review'.