Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1920 — LARGE CROWD HEAR SPEAKERS [ARTICLE]

LARGE CROWD HEAR SPEAKERS

For Democratic Cause at Opera House Wednesday Night. A good sized audience greeted Miss Julie E. Landers, national Democratic committeewoman, and Hon. Fred E. Barnett, candidate for congress from this district, at the new Ellis opera house Wednesday evening. The opening address was made by Miss Landers and dealt very largely with the' league of nations issue. She showed a familiarity with and understanding of the political issues of the campaign. She said the women came home from the two conventions, the one in Chicago and the one in San Francisco, in two very different moods. The women went to both conventions asking for the same things and those who returned from San Francisco were very much better pleased than those returning from Chicago, The speaker discussed many of the qu'dbtlons concerning the league of nations and held that it is strictly a Christian issue. She said that every church body that had met in recent months passed resolutions favoring the league of nations. She said she believed the Christian people would go teethe polls on Nov. 2 and cast their yote for the men who favor the league of nations. She showed Senator Watson’s inconsistencies in criticising the expenditure of money for the war when he Voted for the appropriations. The speaker proved herself one of the ablest women speakers on political issues. Following Miss Landers’s address, the Hon. Fred E. Barnett was introduced. In his address he discussed mainly the state Issues. He pointed out the weakness of the Goodrich tax law. He criticised very severely the Goodrich plan of centralizing power in Indianapolis, thus taking the power away from the people which rightly belongs to them. He said that under two Democratic governors, Marshall and Ralston, the state debt was lifted, and that, too, without raising taxes. The state penal and charitable Institutions were adequately cared for and the state roads were kept up under these two administrations. The speaker held that the taxpayers have a right to object to the present high taxes when they are getting so little in return for them. He said the taxes were not only going to jump but the taxpayer will jump when he goes to pay them next spring. In closing he asked that the voters support Cox and Roosevelt, men who are not -afraid to let the people know where they stand. He promised that if elected he would support Governor Cox in every right moVe. It is evident from the attendance and Interest shown that people are studying the Issues of the campaign.