Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1920 — DO “WE NEED HIS KIND IN OFFICE?” [ARTICLE]

DO “WE NEED HIS KIND IN OFFICE?”

Aspirations of Kentland Board of Trade -Man Should Be Nipped. Thousands of cardboard 'posters, costing hundreds of dollars—but only a drop In the bucket to the huge sums spent to gratify his desire to. be governor of Indiana — have been circulated all over the state during the present campaign •—both before and after the primaries—which bear a picture of Warren T. McCray, the g. o. p. nominee for governor, and the words, “We Need Hlstiind In Office.” The Democrat does not believe “we need his kind in office,” and neither does it believe that the voters of the state of Indiana who have not been misled by the deceptive campaign of Mr. McCray believe any such thing. Mr. McCray’s campaign has been one of deception all the way along. He has posed as a farmer—a “dirt fanner”—and has laid great stress on this alleged qualification, when as a matter 6f fact he is not a

farmer and never was, and his own “boiler plate” dope, sent out to the Republican papers of the state, gives the lie to such claim, for it admits that his parents moved to Kentland when he “became of school age,” he has lived there ever since,! and has always been known as a, grain dealer, banker aijd great lover: of the Chicago board of trade; also vice-president for many years of the Sawers Grain Co. of Chicago, which deals in “futures” on the board and has numerous "branches” in Indiana and other states. Neither the fact that he -.is a banker nor a bpard of trade man has been mentioned by the candidate in any of his speeches, and therein comes the chief deception. In these days of farmers’ organizations and the farmers of the entire country being aroused over the alleged manipulations of the grain markets by the Board of Trade, and Governor Allen and' Senator Capper, both of' the great grain producing State of Kansas and both Republicans, declaring it to be “the greatest gambling hell on . earth” and announcing their intention to try to have it legislated out of business, do. we want a board of trade man in the governor’s chair in Indiana, where he would have so much influence against any legislation designed to.’ put this alleged iniquitious “gambling hell” out of business? This is a matter the farmer especially should consider in casting his vote next Tuesday. And it is ~pot only in manipulating the grain prices that the Board of Trade and the “branches” operating under its name wreak havoc. Only last week Attorney Barce of Fowler, in his speeches in Jasper county, showed what tbe Sawers Grain Co. —Warren T. McCray, vice-president —had dohe to a couple of farmers’ elevator managers in his own county, and whose acts in gambling in futures through said company had done to the farmer stockholders, a matter which is generally known to everyone in this section of -the state. Mr. McCray has never mentioned, his connection with the Sawers Grain Co. durjng his campaign. Why? ' /* He has been and is “A FARMER,” so he .says, but never a. word about his connection with the Sawers Grain -Co. and its numerous little shops throughout the country to beguile the managers of the farmers' grain elevators. And why has he not done this? The court records disclose' that he admitted under oath his connection with this company for the past 10 years, as was shown 'in The Democrat last week. His assessment sheets on file in the auditor’s office in Kentland, in reply to the question; "Value of other corporate bonds ?” gives his sworn reply as "Sawers Grain Co., assessed in 1111©ois." There are otheji reasons why Mr. McCray should not be made governor IBs evasion of his just share In the hardens of taxation when ba wasnot a candidate for

governor have been published and such publication was taken direct from his assessment sheets and are absolutely true In every respect. But his connection with Governor Goodrich and his endorsement of the Goodrich tax law —which is condemned from one end of the state to the other —together with his part with Goodrich in the last special session of the legislature In putting over the “legalizing” act which fastened onto the taxpayer an assessment which the highest court in the state had declared illegal, should show to the people that no relief from this Inlquitious and unjust tax law may be expected if he is made governor.

The question of whether or not “we need his kind in office” 1b up to the people of Indiana for decision next Tuesday. By such decision must we abide for the next four years. Consider this question well before casting your ballot