Rensselaer Journal, Volume 12, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1902 — THE STATE TICKET. [ARTICLE]

THE STATE TICKET.

Secretary of State — DANIEL E. STORMS. Auditor of State — DAVID E. SHERRICK. treasurer of State — NAT U. HILL Attorney General— CHARLES W. MILLER. Clerk Supreme Court — ROBERT A. BROWN. Superintendent of Public Instruction— F. A. COTTON. State Statistician— BENJ. F. JOHNSON. State Geologist— W. S. BLATCHLEY. (fudge Supreme Court, Fifth District— JOHN H. GILLETT. Judges Appellate Court— FRANK R. ROBY. U. Z. WILEY. W. J. HENLEY. JAMES R. BLACK. D. W. COMSTOCK. ... W. E. ROBINSON.

DISTRICT TICKET. For Congress, EDGAR D. CRUMPACKER. For Judge 30th Judicial Circuit CHARLES W. HANLEY. For Prosecuting Att’y. 30th Judicial Circuit. JOHN D. SINK. For Toint Representative, JESSE E. WILSON. COUNTY TICKET. For Auditor, JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. For Treasurer, SAMUEL R. NICHOLS. For Sheriff, ABRAHAM HARDY. For Surveyor, MYRT B. PRICE. For Coroner, W. J. WRIGHT. For Commissioner Ist District, ABRAHAM G. HALLECK. For Commissioner 2nd District, FREDERICK WAYMIRE. For Commissioner 3rd District CHARLES T. DENHAM. For County Councilmen, Ist districtJOHN HAHN 2nd districtHAßVEY E PARKISON 3rd districtJOHN MARTINDALE 4th districtWALTEß V. PORTER . T ( ED T. BIGGS At Large 4 ..ERHARDT WF.URTHNER (ANDREW J. HICKS

Senator Spooner’s full speech on the Philippines bill and defense of the army, as it appears in the Congressional Record, is a masterpiece as an argument, and a denunciation ofthose statesmen who have’ damned the whole American army for the individual acts of soldiers, infuriated by acts of native treachery, torture and butchery.

Cuba has been christened with Uncle Sam for a godfather and the American Goddess of Liberty for a godmother. Here’s to the infant Republic’s new career!

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson stated in a recent speech that the market of the .Mississippi Valley is the best market in the world for American manufacturers, and he added that the markets which irrigation would create in the west would be of the same class.

Mr. Nixon, who succeeded Croker as Tammany leader, it seems must be a decent, self-respecting Democrat. He proposed a somewhat honest administration of Tammany, and the next announcement was that he was out on the sidewalk. That rotten organization is now being run by a triumvirate—three of Croker’s lieutenants.

Mr. Bryan suggests five Tennesseeans as available Democratic presidential candidates. Among them is Senator Carmack, whose red hair and attacks on the army and the flag have made him conspicuous on the floor of the Senate. Tennessee Democrats should get together at once, however, and decide upon a general candidate from among these five, as, of course, only one of them can be elected this time.

The Washington Post has been a consistent devotee of the opinion that Cuba cannot stand alone. It now comments with considerable chuckling upon the report to the effect that while some Cubans were celebrating independence, a dynamite bomb was thrown into their midst, wounding eleven of them. The Post had ex pected just this sort of thing and says: “Things are moving, however, a little more briskly than we had expected, but no matter —the upshot was never for a moment in the slightest doubt.” The attention of the esteemed Post is respectfully called to the fact that where dynamite is used there can be no upshot. The force of a dynamite explosion is always downward.

The state platform gives considerable attention to state affairs. This is commendable. It is a matter of supreme importance that Indiana should be well governed—supreme to Indiana citizens, at least. There is an honest commendation of Governor Durbin’s policy, an endorsement of the non-partisan management of the state’s institutions, and a demand that the wise, conservative, Republican financial administration shall he continued. It is a demand throughout for a continuance of business methods in the administration of the state’s affairs, for business men in control of the ship of state, for business accuracy in conducting the state transactions and business economy and business progressiveness in all the affairs of Indiana.—Logansport Journal.

The last blow has been struck to silver and Mr. Bryan, and it lias been delivered, too, by “Uncle Bill” Stewart, of Nevada, who was a silver man, and has been a silver supporter, advocating free silver in and out of season, since the days when Mr Bryan, was toddling around in dresses. In the Senate the other day, Senator Stewart touched on the silver question, digressing for a moment from the Philippines bill. He said that since the time, six years ago, when he was so strongly urging free silver, there have been added 14 or 15 hundred million dollars of new gold to the country’s stock. This, he says, has brought good times. Before this there was not money enough, and the millions were suffering. “But when,” he said,” we got relief by the output of gold then I was not "Vool enough to follow up a dead issue. The issue of silver is dead, so far as the United States is concerned.”

Senator Stewart followed up his little digression in his speech in the Senate, to the effect that silver was dead, by stating that he thought the Democratic opposition to the Philippines bill most unwarranted. The Democrats were the most anxious for the war; they ratified the treaty of Paris, now they cry abandonment of the islands. “Where the American flag is planted and has been watered by the blood of brave men, it will stay,” he said, “and not be hauled down. Do not intimate such a thing ! The party that intimates the pulling down of that flag under the circumstances in which it is floating in the Philippines will be repudiated by the American people. I hope that no one will make such a suggestion. Some senators on the other side have been already apologizing for such an ex pression, and I am glad to hear it. Our army should be free from such attacks as we have heard here. Sugges-1 tions for the improvement of the hill 1 are in order, but suggestions that the j American flag shall be hauled down in ‘ the Philippines under these circum- j stances will be repudiated by all ' patriotic men, North and South. It is not a ladder on which to climb into office.” 1