Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1920 — Page 2

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HE DREAMS OF EMPIRES

HOOSIERS RALLY TO DEMOCRATIC ISSUES

Daily Accretions of strength Noted In Taggart and McCulloch Camps— Voters Impressed by Constructive State Platform. Indianapolis, Ind. — Democratic leaders and candidates, the election a little more than a month off, are looking forward with the utmost confidence to the results that will be written by the Hoosier voters of both sexes on November 2. Reports reaching state headquarters here from all parts of the state show beyond all doubt that the people are aroused over the issues of the campaign and that while the Democratic ranks are united as never before in the history of the party, the Republicans are badly divided. Constant assurances from leading Republicans as well as those listed among the ‘Tank and file” point to the fact that the league of nations will draw a huge so-called Republican and independent vote and that dissatisfaction with the Goodrich administration will add thousands of more votes to the Democratic standard this year.

Democrats Have the Issues.

" According to the expressions of unbiased political observers all the issues are on the Democratic side this year. The Republicans, they point out, have adopted a policy of negation in Indiana while their opponents are carrying the fight to them in all quarters. Thomas Taggart, the Democratic senatorial nominee, Is going Into every district, preaching the doctrine of a national business administration on which he is well fortified to speak by virtue of the wonderful .record he made while in the senate. Taggart Is urging the adoption of the League of Nations as exemplified by Governor CoX and daily accretions to his strength are manifest in all parts pt the' state. Dr. Carlton B. McCulloch, in contrast to the strange silence of his opponent, Warren T. McCray, Is battling on state issues. He"is assailing the Goodrich tax law at every turn, promising in v its stead a measure predicated on justice to all classes. IHe is exposing the criminal extravagance of the state highway commission and while pledging support to good roads, he is assuring the voters that he will divorce the department (from politics, such as it la now steeped in. Voters Are Impressed. The candidate created a wonderful impression, according to reports reaching here, when he advocated the appointment of a survey commission to investigate conditions at the state house and recommend the elimination of useless boards. With a monthfly payroll in excess of $200,000, his advocacy of a plan to reduce the terrific expense has added to his popularity. . , Dr. McCulloch is laying stress on the fact that Goodrich has bankerupted the state under his “business •administration” and contrasts that record with the one left by Governor •Ralston, who turned over a state free ,of debt and with more than $3,000,000 in the treasury to the Republicans. Platform is Constructive. On the other hand McCray refuses -to mention state issues aside, from [urging a budget system, which McCulloch first advocated in his primary campaign. McCray’s silence on the ♦■v question and bis failure to explain his activity in behalf of the Tuthlll-Klper measure in the special legislative session is causing an evident reaction in his own party. Peo-

—Wi in MT ii~ pre seeking relief from the oppressive administrative measures of Goodrich see no hope in McCray, because of his endorsement of the present administration, and they are turning in constantly increasing numbers to McCulloch. McCulloch is hitting hard at what he terms the evils of Goodrichism, but he is not waging a campaign of criticism. For every wrong that he points out he offers a cure. In fact old-time political observers declare that his platform is one of the most constructive ever presented in a state campaign. There must be something wrong with the Goodrich coal commission. Jesse Eschbach, head of the commission, says he first offered the directorship to a progressive, then a Democrat and finally a Republican. Ten out of nineteen of the districts are in charge of Democrats, he said. Probably the Republican leaders know that it is going to fail and want the burden to rest on Democrats. A prisoner up for pardon said that he had fled from the penal farm because of the poor food provided. Starving convicts is another brilliant page in the Goodrich history that was Indorsed by the Republican state convention. r - Senator Watson’s school of oratory is bearing fruit. Warren T. McCray follows in the senator’s footsteps In charging that wages are too high.

Right after the league of nations, as now constituted, had stopped two threatened wars. Senator Harding called it a “Gigantic fraud.”

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO VOTERS OF TIME AND PLACE OF REGISTRATION

Notice is hereby given to the voters of Jasper county, Indiana, that all voters to be entitled to vote at the general election to be held November 2, 1920, will be required to register on Monday, October 4, 1920. The following places are designated as places of registration, tdwlt: Barkley, South —Center school house. Barkley, . East — Newland school house. Barkley, West —Independence school house. Carpenter, South —Sample room, Remington hotel. Carpenter, East- —George Niergaiten’s residence. Carpenter, West —Frank Klaus's residence. Gillam —Center school house. Hanging Grove — Banta schoo house. Jordan —Egypt school house. Kankakee —Tefft school house. Keener —Demotte school house. Marion, No. I—Samplel—Sample room. Makeever hotel. Marion, No. 2—L. A. Bostwick’s office. Marion, No. 3 —Dr. W'. E. Russell’s office. , Marion, No. 4 —Worland’s shop. Milroy—Center school house. Newton—Blue Grass school house. Union, North —Fair Oaks school house. Uplon, South —Parr school house. Walker —Center school house. Wheatfield —Town hall. Witness my hand and official seal of the board of commissioners at Rensselaer, Indiana, this 23d day of September, 1920. (Seal) SCHUYLER C. ROBINSON, Auditor of Jasper County, Indiana.

COMMUNITY SALES REGULARLY

At Roselawn (4th Saturday) and Demotte (Ist Saturday) of each month, respectively. Parties having stock, tools or anything else they wish to dispose of are Invited to bring same in and sell it at these sales. Stuff will be sold on reasonable sale terms.—BEßT HANAWAY, Auctioneer; H. C. DeKock, Clerk.

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THE TWICE-A-WEEK D

ROLL CALL OF REACTION

Beveridge Read Record In 1914— Sama Story This Year Silences Orator.

We are told ex-Senator Albert J. Beveridge is to speak in Indiana for Senator “‘Jim” Watson, to urge Mr. Watson for six years more in the United States Senate. We do not believe Mr. Beveridge will speak for Watson in Indiana or for the Watson crowd. We are told Mr. Beveridge is to campaign in Indiana for Warren G. Harding for president. It doesn’t look possible. In 1914 on September 14, at Terre Haute, Mr. Beveridge very plainly set forth the good reasons why he can not make such speeches as he is reported to contemplate making in Indiana. In that remarkable speech Mr. Beveridge ‘‘called the roll" of Republican leadership, at a time when, as he said, ‘‘they (the Republican leaders) declare that the Republican party has cleansed itself of those leaders an(J> influences which overthrew that party.” “Let the roll call answer this,” said Mr. Beveridge, and he then “called the roll,” as follows: “In Maine, the Hale-Burleigh machine is more firmly in the Republican saddle than ever —Maine, into which this moment scores of thousands of dollars are being poured by evil interests to corrupt this week’s election. “In Massachusetts the Crane-Lodge-Weeks machine is in absolute command of the Republican party. "In Connecticut Senator Brandegee is the Republican candidate to succeed himself —Brandegee, who was and is an Aldrich lieutenant, who stands for all that Aldrich stood for and worse. (Brandegee is once more on the ticket this year.) “In New Hampshire Senator Galllnger 1$ the Republican candidate to succeed himself —Gallinger, dean of all the reactionaries in congress. Raps Barnes and Root. "Tn New York the Barnes-Root combine owns the Republican party in fee simple—l hold in my hand the New York newspapers hostile to the Progressive party, each of which states that the recent Republican convention was a machine convention ruled by Barnes and Root; and everybody knows that the so-called ‘retirement’ of Boss Barnes from the New York state committee, but who is still N°w York’s national Republican committeeman, is a cheap trick which pulls the wool over the eyes of none except those already blind. Barnes will name —already has named —the Republican candidates for governor and senator from New York. “In Pennsylvania Penrose is the Republican candidate to succeed himself; and the notorious Republican Pennsylvania machine is stronger today than in many years. (Penrose named the 1920 Republican Presidential candidate over a private personal telephone wire from his Philadelphia home to the Chicago convention.) “IN OHIO, HARDING OF CHICAGO CONVENTION FAME, THE DISCIPLE AND UNDERSTUDY OF FORAKER WITHOUT THAT BRILLIANT MAN’S "LABILITY, IS THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR PENATOR. “In Illinois, Cannon, McKinley, Mann and others of the oligarchy which overthrew the Republican party, are Republican nominees for congress; (McKinley this year, for senator) the crafty standpat Sherman is the Republican candidate for senator, and the vicious Illinois machine is today running the Republican party in the state of Abraham Lincoln.” And so runs the roll call, on and on, to South Dakota and Burke, Kansas and Curtis, to Colorado and the Guggenheims, to Utah and Smoot, California and the Calhoun-Southern Pacific gang—according to the 1914 Beveridge speech. “If Penrose is a Republican, Cummins cannot be,” declared Mr. Beveridge. If Watson is a Republican, If Harding is a Republican, what is Mr. Beveridge. The 1914 speech is the answer.

M'CULLOCH INTERESTED IN SOCIAL WELFARE WORK

Dr. Carlton B. McCulloch, Democratic candidate for governor, Is known among his intimate friends as an earnest welfare worker. For five years he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Flanner House Guild, an institution founded for the benefit 6f the colored people of Indianapolis. • The Flanner House Guild was a result of the Hull House settlement work inaugurated by Jane Addams of Chicago in 1889. In 1898 the Flanner house was established through the efforts of a public-spirited Indi* anapolis citizen and a number of women interested in the welfare work. Dr. McCulloch’s Incumbency on the board was a source of good to the house and his advice and instructions to colored women and children regarding sanitation and improvement in living conditions met with general response from those under the direction of the workers. Owing to his constantly increasing medical practice and his services in the World war he was forced to relinquish much of his Work at the guild. His work among the needy colored population, however, is still spoken of In admiration. •

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WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29, 1920-