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For Nancy And The Baby

ANXIOUS CAMPAIGN ORATORS may come and go; newspapers may advise their constituents; the very air may be choked with, the political claims of this or that party; business and social life may be impregnated with politics to such an extent that the mind wearies of it all, and when this stage is reached in every presidential campaign, it is up to voter THE KING OF ALL the man on whom campaigns of all kinds depend, to settle it. Over our broad land, over our own great commonwealth, over our own proud country, voters are thinking over the questions that have been discussed for their benefit and presented to them. In a few days they will go to he secret recesses of their voting places and .decide without suggestion or intervention therein how they shall cast that Ibeky-gjven perogative of the citizens the ballot. The result of that ballot next Tuesday may decide the fate of the greatest nation in the world insofar as its welfare for years to come is concerned the result of that ballot may change the government of the state of Indiana! So the thinking conscientious voter will do well to study and pause ere he casts that ballot which is of so serious moment to himself. Among the speakers who have visited Lake county this fall are Senator A. J. Beveridge and James E. Watson, oandidate for governor on the republican ticket. Both of them put much stress upon the influence of "Nancy and the Baby" as a deciding factor in the voters' mind as to how he shall cast his ballot next Tuesday. After all is said and done and things have simmered down to the stern realities, these two speakers are right in saying that "Nancy and the Baby" are the paramount issue in this and every other campaign that has ever been conducted. What, in the minds of we who work for our daily bread, comes uppermost in our thoughts when the time draws near for us to cast our ballot? It is our personal interest in the campaign. It Is the effect the election will have on us, not on the candidate for president or representative or recorder. It is the effect it will have on "Nancy andsthe Baby." There are two candidates for the chief executiveship of the nation whose election means much to "Nancv and the Baby." Around these two candidates

the whole political fabric kaleidescopically revolves. The question concerning Mr. Voter is, whose election will be the better for you, Nanoy and the baby: Mr. Taft's or Mr. Bryan's? Whose policies are apt to hurt you more? For twelve long and weary years the name of Bryan has been dinged into your ears., He has dandled and petted every visionary scheme and dubltably policy that would elect him president and has been cast aside as undesirable. Perhaps you yourself and the man who employes you thought htm unsafe and refused to vote for in the past. Yet here he Is again, unchanged, just as determined perhaps, but advocating the same discarded policies, arraigning you against your employer, preaching buncombe, using subterfuge, scheming, talking, begging, pleading, praying for your vote. Consider your interests. Consider the interests of "Nancy and the Baby" before you vote for him. Ask yourself why statesmen, political economists, thinkers, manufacturers, capitalists, railroad men, business men, bankers, newspapers are against Mr. Bryan? WHY IS THE MAJORITY AGAINST MR. BRYAN? Is he safe? Do you want a change like you got before in 1892 when you voted for a change? You know what you got then? If the election of Mr. Bryan would be bad for the business and manufacturing interests, wouldn't they be bad for you? Don't you earn your living working for these interests? May they not be farseeing enough to realize that the election of the 1896-1900-1904-1908 Bryan would be a blow to them? Wouldn't it be safer for you to consider all this when you' consider "Nancy and the Baby?" It is worth while to take a chance? You know you are not only voting for yourself, you are voting for "Nancy and the Baby!" THINK IT OVER I Then again coming nearer home. In your own state, of which you are so proud, two men are asking for your suffrage. The issue they represent are as widely convergent as were issues ever known. These men are James E. Watson and Thomas E. Marshall. Oh, but the issue is vital i The all-absorbing question for you to ponder over in the state campaign, Mr. Voter, is whether the millionaire brewery trust of Indiana shall rule the state or whether the people, of which you are a unit, shall rule. The other questions are infinitesimal by its side. The representatives you have elected have put on the statute books a law called local option. This law provides that if the people want to vote on the saloon question they may do so. Mr. Watson has said he will see that the people will get a chance to vote. Mr. Marshall will repeal the law. If elected you won't get a chance to vote. Mr. Marshall will usurp your perogatives. Now in this campaign the democratic party has made the breweries and the law-breaking brewery saloon the paramount issue. Your "Nancy an the Baby" arc not considered at all. Yoked with the brewery trust, Mr. Marshall is helping the breweries fight their battle for life or death.

It is the brewery combine or the the people. It is no longer a question TION OF BREWERY DOMINATION.

you, Mr. Voter, to enable the arrogant millionaire brewery combine to run the state of Indiana, to put its pets in office, to send its henchmen to the senate; to force the independent saloons out of business; TO RUN INDIANA BY HOOK OR CROOK. You see the big red posters flaunted before your faces, near to your churches, insolent lies every one of them. They are put there by the breweries who are supporting Marshall. .Who gets the benefit if Marshall is elected? ASK YOURSELF THAT? Do you and "Nancy and the Baby." Certainly you don't. The brewers get the benefit. Who will the "Evils of Prohibition" affect? Well, they won't affect the interests of "Nancy and the Baby." They will affect the brewery and its creature the brewery saloon. It is fo ryou to remember, Mr. Voter, at the polls next Tuesday, that the allied brewery combine that sells its product to houses of prostitution, gambling dens with its army of the underworld is fighting James E. Watson and the republican stzte ticket tooth and toe nail. Will you vote the brewers into power next Tuesday Mr. Voter, then vote the democratic ticket. Will you vote a beer trust into power that throttles everyone with whom its does business, then vote the democratic ticket. When you go home next Tuesday night and meet Her, the partner of your joys and sorrow, be able to greet her and the little ones your boys and girls whom she travailed to bring into the world, with a clear conscience, not alone for your "Nancy and the Baby," but for countless others, just as helpless and dependent. Remember that the brewery bugaboo of -a few "empty buildings" that may never be empty are as nothing compared, to the poor empty stomachs and aching hearts of all those that breweries grind down. Don't let the insolent brewery combine, with which the democratic ticket is unfortunately lined, play upon the heartstrings of the "Nancies and Babies" of Indiana. . They are your first duty, Mr. Voter! You see they can't vote por things, if they could there WOULD BE NO

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Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye. GET OUT INTO THE OPEN. You are simply tired out physically, mentally, if not morally. Do you know why? Because you have disobeyed the laws of your nature. You have been living1 an artificial, not a natural, life. God made the country and man made the town. There is life in what God makes. There is no life in what man makes. There is no life In the town. LIFE IS OUT OF DOORS. Only In the open can you find the renewal of the forces of life. You belong to Nature. t She nursed you. She will keep you. But you are always playing truant to her. Get out into the open. You are brother to the rock, the soil, the air, the swinging worlds. All these obey the law. You only of all things are disobedient to the law. Is it strange, then, that, being out of harmony, you should lose your balance? Get out into the open. How, for instance, can you hope to renew the spent forces of electric vitality from the electric forces in the soil when your bare foot never touches the soil? The soil wants to help you, but cannot. Get out into-the open. Man was made to live out of doors. He chooses slow suicide by shutting himself up In a house. He was made to touch the soil, to press the vitalizing currents of the wind, to feel the soothing fall of rain, the press of waters on his bared breast. He was made so that he could restore his vital forces by familiar contact with the elemental forces. He turns away and refuses the office of these forces. He becomes a slave to the artificial things. Get out Into the open. If only for one hour each day, get out Into the open spaces. The touch of primal life will put the thrill of new fife into your veins. Feel the shine of the sun in Its life giving warmth, the air that is wine to your lungs, the soil that is electric. Get out of the town stifle. Pull yourself out of your self made lassitude. Get out Into the open. You are one of Nature's prodigal sons. You are trying to live on the husks the swine would disdain. Arise and go back home where there Is plenty and to spare. s Get out into the open! DOUBT OF THE RESULT. You you are here to vote for them. They de pend on you! When you go to the quiet of your sleeping room tonight and tomorrow night and all the nights until next Tuesday, consider it calmly on your pillow and when you greet "Nancy and the Baby" on Tuesday night you'll be thankful that those words were put in your head. "NANCY AND THE BABY." "THIS DATE IN HISTORY." Oct. 28. 1701 The first constitution of Pennsyl vania was adopted. 1776 Amerlsan defeated by the Brit ish In battle of White Plains. N. Y. 1792 John Smeaton, celebrated engin eer, died in Leeds, England. Born there. May 28, 1784. 1804 James Bowdoin, of Massachu setts, appointed United States minister to Spain. 1818 Abigail Adams, wife of President ' John Adams, died at Qulncy, Mass. Born in Weymouth, Mass., Nov. 22, 1744. 1S51 Southern cotton planters met at Macon to devise a plan to pre vent fluctuations In the price of the staple. 1864 End of the battle of Fair Oaks. 1886 Bartholidi's statue of Liberty, in New York harbor, dedicated by President Cleveland. 1891 The provincial act abolishing separate schools in Manitoba de clared unconstitutional by the su preme court of Canada. 1895 The trial of II. II. Holmes for murder began In Philadelphia. 1904 George K. Nash, ex-governor of Ohio died. Born Aug. 14, 1842. "THIS IS MY S9TII BIRTHDAY." Joseph AV. Folk. John W. Folk, governor of Missouri and a candidate for United States sena tor, was born Oct. 28, 1869, in Browns ville, Tenn. His education was received at Vanderbllt university, from which institution he was graduated in 1890 He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced for a year in his native town. He then removed ot St Louis, where he soon became prominent in his chosen profession. He took an active interest in democratic politics and before long became proml inent in public affairs. In 1900 he was instrumental in bringing about a peaceful settlement of the great street railway strike in St. Louis. The prominence which he attained through the arbitration of the street railway strike led to his nomination later in the same year as the democratic candidate for district attorney. He was elected and during his term of office he won national fame by his prosecution of those guilty of election frauds, bribery and municipal corruption. Nearly a score of legislative bribers were sent to prison through the efforts of Mr. Folk and among them were several millionaire political bosses. In 1904 he waa elected to the governorship, receiving 50.000 more votes than the other candidates on his ticket. As governor he continued his work of purging the state of political corrupt tion. IF ITS ADVERTISED IT'S WORTH LOOKING UP.

For President WILLIAM H. TAFT

" He U aa strong mm he ia gentle. Bis reputation la simply spotless. Ia all ike agitation of a heated campaign for tbe greatest office la the world, no on haa vestured to Intimate a doubt of the aheoiate honesty thla ma who haa heea before the country for a quarter of a century. Nor eaa aay oae me eessfaUy dispute the simple proposition that la the whole hlatory of the United. State no one waa ever named for the presidency who waa ao fitted by aatare, by training; and by experience for the duties, dlgnitlea aad responsibilities of that nnlae office CHARLES HOPKINS, In "The Independent." RANDOM THINQS AND FLINGS Mayor Tom Knotts said in the Chi cago Choinal last night that he was absolutely sure Gary would go for Bryan. We would feel aorry for Mr. Knotts It he wasn't any surer of his breakfast. Take care of marriage and the divorce will take care of themselves. Also Sleeping (Tows. If there were a few street lamps placed In different sections of the town the oportunity for breaking your neck or disturbing tome old innocent cow in her night's rest would be considerably lessened. Webbers Falls (Okla.) Record. VULGARITY AND PERVERSITY IN CHILDREN ARE GENERALLY THEIR IGNORANT IMITATION OP GROWN PERSONS' SELF-SUFFCIENCY AND SELF-LOVE. Senator Bailey of Texas has been op erated upon for sore throat. Probably choked when he heard the charges brought against Colonel Bryan. There is nothing quite so disheartening to a girl who has made up her ' mind that she Is going to get a romantic proposal, than to get aa off-hand oae where she gets her hair all mussed up, and her teeth Jarred loose. "Let Sleeping Dogs Lie." People who own dogs should not permit them to attend church. We learned a few days ago that a good lady came near being seriously hurt by falling over a dog at church, besides If there Is a dog heaven, we think the little poodles will stand as good a chance to get to heaven if they are left at home on meeting days, Luverne (Ala.) Journal. It would save us much trouble if we could learn from the mistakes of others as muck aa we do from our owu. It doesn't take so much money to run a campaign after all when you can't get it, is Chairman Rick Schaaf's latest. When a woman trusts to her intuition she likes to have It corroborated by gossip, however. "False Friends, or Driven to Bay" is running at a Brooklyn theater. Gadaooks! Politics has even reached the footlights. THE STOUT WOMAN ENVIES THE FAT MAN NOT BECAUSE HE" HAS A VOTE, BUT BECAUSE HIS DOUBLE CHIN APPEARS OUT OF SIGHT OX THE BACK OF HIS NECK. Falling out of a balloon 4,000 feet is nearly as bad as falling after hitting a banana peel. Less than a week and then the shouting and some of it before that time. A really good drygoods m nil always makes a woman feel as if there was something about his store that Mhc ougrbt to admire. The Chicago Choinal has lost Illinois for the democrats. Now it is being dumped into Indiana to make the state absolutely sure for Taft What In the world Is more trivial than The reason people have for Disliking youf Colonel Roosevelt is to be only the associate editor of the Outlook. Either we don't know' the meaning of the word associate or the other fellow must be a corker. LANSING. W. C. Vandenberg was a Chicago visitor yesterday. Mrs. Miller is visiting in Chicago for a few days. . Mrs. Vanderlaw of Roseland visited in town yesterday. Dr. N. E. Oliver was in town yesterday.

For V-Prcsident JAMES S. SHERMAN

"We certify to all the arrest electorate that when their tea ta No. ember shall have chosen James S. Shermaa to be vlee arestdeat of the Halted States, the senate wUl be sure of a presiding officer la character aad competency worthy of the best traditions of that great deliberate body, aad that which God forbid the sad contingency were to eome which should for a fourth time call a vice president from New York; to the executive office, the interests of the whole eoaatry weald be safe In good hands, and the arrest office of the presidency would suffer do decadence from the hick standard of dignity aad honor aad competency of which we are so Justly proud." ELI HU ROOT, at Sherman Notification Ceremonies. IN POLITICS The estimates on the republican majorities in Lake county are quite different and vary all the way from 2,000 l AAA n- l...t v .1.1 i The election boards over the county are busy getting the preliminary arrangements over for the balloting. There are a number of changes made and quite a different lot of clerks and election officers will have charge this year. Bedford Bets on the results of the election in Bedford are being wagered at odds of 7 to 3 on Taft Up to last night there had been $1,100 placed on Taft and Watson, and very little Marshall money could be found and then odds of 2 to 1 had to be given in order to place a wager. Shelbyvllle W. T. Wilkinson of Wis. consin and A. C. Harris of Indianapolis addressed an audience at the skating rink here last nlghL James Watson, republican candidate for governor, had been advertised through mistake F. S. Goodman, candidate for governor on the socialist ticket, spoke at the opera house to a good-sized audience. Warsaw One of the largest meetings of the campaign here was held Monday night when Charles W. Miller of Goshen, republican candidate for congressman from the thirteenth district, spoke. The speech .was preceded bv a parade, participated in by the Taft club, or Warsaw and republicans, and the Young Men's Taft club of Goshen, which accompanied Mr. Miller. Brazil B. F. Shlvely of South Bend addressed a large audience of democrats at the Majestic theater here last evening. Mr. Shlvely confined his remarks largely to the issues Involved In the state fight Considerable feeltlng Is manifested by the republicans because the democrats booked John W. Kern here for a speech on the same night that John L. Griffiths will speak for the republicans. Richmond James E. Watson will de liver his first address of the campaign In Wayne county, tomorrow night. The republicans are preparing for a big street parade, as an indication that Watson's strength in Richmond and Wayne county is not on the wane, as democrats declare. On Saturday the democrats are expecting the biggest crowd in years, the occasion being the presence of Mr. Bryan. Rushvllle A strong and growing sentiment for a clean election prevails in Rush county, and the democratic committee, through Us chairman. Will M. Newbold, has made repeated attempts to secure a clean election agreement with the republican chairman, Charles A. Frazee, and his committee. No attention whatever has been given the matter and it is now evident that the effort will fail. Two of the leading ministers of the city have vigorously denounced ballot corruption and made emphatic appeals from their pulpits for a fair and honest ballot. Jeffersonville Notice has been serv ed on the employes of the Indiana re formatory that no collections shall be taken up there for any political object. nor shall any subscriptions for polltl cal purposes be listed as from the In dlana reformatory. The officers, how ever, are not forbidden to make contributions away from the place to whichever party they choose. The opinion of the superintendent, W. H. Whittaker, is that a man ought to support his party, but he is not particular, he says, which party it is, although he prefers the republican as being his own Muncie Much pleased at the show ing they are making in the "straw vote" taken in the factories and elsewhere the socialists of Delaware county for the first time have put out a county ticket. The socialist leaders say they will poll a vote In the factories that will be a surprise to the old parties They have named this ticket: Joseph Wedlake, state senator; Otto Sellers and Orville ' G. OvercasH, representatives; Samuel T. Hefferline, prosecuting attorney; Laurence B. Tarlaw, treasurer; A. Washington Miller, sheriff; Claud G. Veal, surveyor; Maxwell Matthews, coorner; Thomas E. Coate commissioner; Harry Williamson, Cen ter township trustee. and Joseph Younce, township assessor. Marlon John S. Parry, Pacific coast labor leader, in addressing laboring men in this city Saturday night, advised them to support the democratic ticket this campaign, but declosed at the same time that labor was not married to democracy. He declared that labor organizations are not partisan and that if the democrats get in power and forget their promises to labor, he will then take pleasure in "throwing the hooks" into democracy as he is now doing to republicanism. He declared that legislation favorable to the masses of laboring people would be demanded from the party In power until labor receives just wages and recognition. Evansville The Rev. John Ragle, pastor of the Central M. E. church.

delivered a sermon at his church last night In which he asked his members to vote for what he termed "temperance men," on the two tickets. He said It was the. duty of church members to vote for men who would stand for the right things In government.. .Congressman James E. Watson, the republican nominee for governor, is billed to make an, address at Rockport on the afternoon of October 30. He, with Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, will speak on the nights of the 30th at the Grand opera house in this city. Local republicans are planning to give Congressman Watson and Speaker Cannon a big reception here.

Fort Wayne, Ind.. Oct. 27. W. J. Vesey, republican candidate for Joint senator against Steve Fleming, received a challenge by mail yesterday from Fleming for a joint debate. The district is 3.000 democratic, but owing to his brewery, saloon and trust interests some of the democrats of the counties of Adams and Allen are in revolt against Fleming. Fleming, therefore. according to the republicans, is try ing to create a party spirit which will drive the democrats back In line to vote their ticket straight, even with him on It Fleming gave Vesey until this morning to reply, but Vesey promptly responded to the challenge, giving at the same time the text of each letter to the evening papers. In his letter Fleming said that charges made by Vesey regarding Fleming were in some part untrue and in others exaggerated. The challenger said he would insist on only one rule aside from those that usually govern in such cases and that was that "women and children" as non-voters be excluded. G. C. White and Charles Billings went to Eagle Creek and held a political meeting there, in a schoolhouse. The building was crowded and the speakers were given a rousing reception. The trip was made to Eagle Creek in an automobile and from Crown Point to Eagle Creek In a carriage. The party did not return to Hammond until 2 o'clock this morning. The sample county ballots are out and are being distributed by the candidates. The state ballots are also out and the republicans are getting about as much satisfaction out of the arrangement as the democrats are, so let everybody be happy. MW All the candidates on both democratic and republican tickets are rounding up their campaigns in the north part of Lake county this week.and Hammond and Gary are the stamping grounds for a good many of them. William IL Taft will carry Illinois by 237,756. .This is the result of a poll of the city of Chicago and fifteen counties of the state, together with estimates of the remainder. The figures or the thirty-five wards of the city of Chicago represent the work of 2,000 men on a house to house canvass. The itemized plurality figures follow: Taft's plurality over Bryan City of Chicago.. 73,756 Cook county (outside Chicago).. 14,000 State of Illinois (outside Cook county) 150,000 Total 237.756 Muncie A local newspaper , Independent in politics, publishes this afternoon a straw vote taken In Muncie, In which 142 voters In all walks of life participated, men ' identified with the liquor Interests and those connected In official capacities with the churches being excluded. The vote shows these results for the presidency and governorship, the noticeable feature of this being the wide margin between the candidates of the same party,for president and governor: President, Taft 86; Bryan, 46; Debs, 9; Hisgen, 1; Chafin, 0. Governor, Watson, 67; Marshall, 66; Goodmaji, 8; Zlon, 1; Haynes, 0. Columbus, Ind., Oct 26. John F. Parry, secretary and treasurer of the union labor party of San Francisco, who is touring southern Indiana with John W. Kern, received a telegram Just before he started to speak here thi afternoon that his mother had died suddenly In Iowa. Mr. Parry, It will be remembered, spoke both in Gary and In Hammond during the present political campaign. Columbus, Ind., Oct. 26. Lieutenant Governor Hugh T. Miller returned Saturday evening from Washingtpn. where he has been on a business trip. While In Washington he called on President Roosevelt and was cordially received. The president Is more than interested in the political situation in Indiana and talked to Mr. Miller at length about conditions here. He asked a great many questions and showed himself to be as familiar with Hoosler conditions in a political way as a resident of this state might be. Elwood Benjamin F. Shively of South Bend will speak for the democrats here Wednesday evening, and ar rangements are being made for one of the largest gatherings of the year. The national labor bureau is prepared to send a man here of national reputa tion to address the factory workers the last meeting for which John F. Parry of Calofirna was widely advertised, but failed to appear. Labor's True Interest In Campaign BY D. F. KENNEDY. Organizer American Federation of I,abor One would think, from the reported political activity in union circles, ttiat a new labor Issue had been discovered. In fact, the Indiana Federation did dig up an unheard of labor Issue and presented it to the 700 local unions of the state that were not represented in the Vincennes convention as a paramount Issue. According to this new doctrine, if a candidate or party stands for county local option, as against township option, they are the enemies of union labor. If they favor township local option they art the friends of unions. This was never before heard of as a

labor issue; it remained for an Indiana labor convention to discover it

A great many 'union voters who ap proved the original American Federa tion of Labor political program are wondering how it could be stretched to cover a campaign In Indiana support ing every candidate on the entire democratic ticket, legislative and county. I ask one of the men who made this new issue for labor to demonstrate It so I could comprehend It, and he replied: "You see, county local option wilt put a number of our union bartenders and brewery workers out of employment, therefore candidates who favor the county unit are enemiese of union workers." I then said: "Is it not true that the Moore remonstrance law has put some of these men out of their Jobs?" He answered quickly:. "Yes." Then I said, will not the proposed township unit option deprive still more of them of their Jobs, and he replied it would. "Now," said I, "how can union labor support the party and candidates who favor these measures if it Is true that a man who favors laws that may cause a few men to lose their jobs constitutes him. an enemy of union labor?" After hesitating a moment he replied: "I am a democrat, and all things are possible with God and democrats." If it were possible for this erroneous - Idea to become a dominant issue In organized labor it would force It to form a party of its own or go Into thesocialist party, as that Is the only party that does not stand for regulating cor porations. The regulating will, in many cases, result in some workingmen being displaced Just as the concentration movement of industry and the introduction of labor-saving machinery have displaced thousands of men. The truth is, this is not a labor issue, and never can be; It is simply a cheap subterfuge manufactured by the breweries and the democrats to catch labor voters on the assumption that the union voter is ignorant enough to be voted for any thing that has the brand of union on It, no matter If the label was placed upon it by a democratic convention for the sole purpose of getting that party In power. The democratic party of Indiana has no claims on the union vote from any standpoint. It was in power eight years of the last twenty-four. It should have one-third of the labor laws on the statute books to Its credit to make Its record equal with the republicans; but it has no effective labor laws to its credit, while the republicans have many. Indiana has as many and as good labor laws as any state in the Union, alt of which were passed by republican legislature and signed by republican governors. The factory inspection law, the board of arbitration act, the child labor law, the mine inspection law, the mechanic's Hen law, the law doing away with convict contract labor and making tbe prlsous reformatory, the employers' liability law, making Labor day a legal holiday, a law compelling stores to furnish seats for lady clerks, an anti-blacklist law. All of these laws are valuable to labor, and they were all passed at the request of the Indiana Federation of Labor, that same body which now asks labor to vote the whole party out of power that passed practically every law that unions asked for. This federation now. asks labor to vote the democratic party In power without a single act to its credit favorable to labor. The republicans also passed two other important measures that were declared unconstitutional. The weekly pay law and the act making it a penal offense for an employer to discharge a man for being a member of a union. On the other hand, the democrats have some acts on the opposite side of the ledger. Governor Matthews called out the state militia to suppress labor strike softener than all the other governors combined in the history of the state. Once they were called out over the protest of the local authorities at the request of employers. Matthews and Governor Gray did not recognize organized labor In the appointment of the clerk of the state printing board; all the republican governors appointed union printers to this position. What do the democrats offer to unions now that should induce them to turn their backs on the whole republican ticket? Let us see. We note their platform promises labor a compulsory arbitration law, one of the most offensive laws possible. It offers us a candidate for state statistician that has a record for giving organized labor the hardest fight in Its history during the years when the unions were establishing the early store closing. With this record .it Is not to be wondered that the party had to manufacture a new issue to catch the labor vote. Now the question is, will union voters go back on the party that has done all it was asked to do and vote in a party that has done absolutely nothing for labor, and do this solely on a false issue purposely presented to catch them? If they do, it wil prove not only that they are ungrateful, but that union men are not yet intelligent enough to go into politics. It will surely not be following the original A. F. of L political program, which read: Vote for your friends and defeat your enemies." Myron W. Reed defined a friend as a man who gave you a dollar when you needed it, not the fellow who professed friendship, but did no friendly act Let no voter be misled or influenced by the reported resolutions indorsing this false position taken by the Vincennes convention which were passed by local and central bodies in which a majority at the meeting are democrats who boast they never cut their party, not even in the case of old man Davis four years ago. Fully two-thirds of the" 75,000 union voters of Indiana are democrats in season and out of season. It is these men who are now trying to persuade the 25.000 normal republicans to support the whole democratic ticket. It should be noted that the Ohio Federation of Labor, in its convention last week, with over twice the number of delegates that composed the Vincennes convention voted down the famous democratic brewery resolutions. In view of these indisputable facts, what reason could union republicans find for turning down the party that has proved their friend, and at the same time forsake their life-long cherished bHfef In the governmental policies represented by the republican party? This is the supreme test of patriotism and loyalty, both for union men and citizen. A union man Is both.