Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1916 — GOODRICH’S CANDIDACY. [ARTICLE]

GOODRICH’S CANDIDACY.

Mr. Goodrich, the Republican nominee for Governor, has become immensely wealthy through ownership of public utilities and receiverships of railways. Mr. Goodrich has satisfied every want that money can satisfy and now he would like to be Governor. In pursuance of that end he has laid down a platform of “reforms” that he would carry out. Not a plank in his platform is in the interest of men. Every one of them is in the interest of property. Workmen’s compensation laws, vocational education, better poor relief, legislation to make farm life more agreeable, improved housing laws—none of these things which have occupied Democratic legislatures for the last six years has any place in his program. His only thought is for the men who has—how he may get more. The men and women and children of Indiana as human beings mean nothing to him. The only class that enters his vision is the property owner. Has he a single word of sympathy for the poor and distressed? On the other hand, his chief stock in trade is to rotten egg institutions like Woodmere for making the'property owning classes pay the extravagant sum of 6% cents a meal for their inmates. Jim Goodrich doesn’t want to be Governor of Indiana. lie wants to be director of the mint. And in watching the coining of money he would be perfectly happy.—The Evansville Courier, October 21, 1916.