Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1917 — THE MAN WITHOUT AN ENEMY [ARTICLE]

THE MAN WITHOUT AN ENEMY

You ’can’t hold convictions and avoid conflicts. Life is strife. To rise above the average, means to rouse resentment, dislike and envy where you disappoint the expectations, defeat the hopes and upset the calculations of others who meet a set-back in your victory. If you have no enemies you’re probably such a colorless, compromising, puny, piking, lick-spittle that nqbody finds it worth while to notice your existence. While there are crooks, sneaks, snides, cads, shysters, smart-alecs, traitors, grafters and rotters *ln the community, one can’t be everybody’s friend without condoning, upholding and sympathizing with everybody's acts. It’s discreditable not to have enemies.—Exchange.

Sixty-six of the Indianians accused of vote fraud in the 1916 election plead guilty before Judge Anderson at Indianapolis Wednesday; seventy-nine charged with the same offense entered pleas of not guilty and the bonds of four others who claimed to be too ill to appear in court were forfeited. Of those pleading guilty six were white men from Indianapolis, all Democrats; two from Frankfort, white Republicans; thirty-nine colored Republicans and sixteen colored and two white, Democrats from Evansville. Those pleading not guilty were six white Democrats from Indianapolis; thirty-nine white and colored Republicans and twenty white and colored Democrats from Evansville; five white Repnb r licans from Frankfort and white Republicans from Gary. The cases of those pleading not guilty are set for trial soon.

Congress wanted an extra session, and now they are to have it. The President has summoned them to meet on April 2. We who remain at home and do the voting are hoping that they will reversa the prevailing- order of. things and do something instead of nothing. We are even expecting them to climib to the sublime heights of proving themselves statesmen instead of mere politicians. We are even wagering tha£ at least a majority of them will evince at least a reasonable degree of loyalty to their own country. And for all of which, when we see it, we will give thanks and send them bacij again.