Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1898 — The State Ticket. [ARTICLE]

The State Ticket.

Secretary of State. UNION B. HUNT, of Winchester. Auditor of State, WILLIAM H. HART, of Frankfort. Treasurer of State, LEOPOLD LEVY, of Huntington. Attorney General, WILLIAM L. TAYLOR, of Indianapolis. Clerk of Supreme Court, ROBERT A. BROWN, of Franklin, Supt. of Public Instruction. F. L. JONES, of Tipton. State Statistician, JOHN B. CONNER, of Indianapolis. State Geologist, WILLIS S. BLATCHLEY, of Terre Haute. Judge of Supreme Court, Second District, ALEXANDER DOWLING, of New Albany. Third District. J. Y. HADLEY, of Danville. Fifth District, FRANCIS E. BAKER, of Goshen.

The old theory of Free-Trade, or such Tariff laws as the WilsonGorman, is directly antagonistic to the comforts and which now belong to the workingman according to his standard of living. It needed but one experiment to show the laborer and farmer that Protection produces mills and factories; these give work to the laborer, and a great amount of labor insures a great consumption of agricultural product. It will be strange indeed if ever the country permits such a law as as the Wilson-Gorman to go into foice again.

The Republican is making no personal fight on Mr. John F. Major, Democratic candidate for county clerk, nor for that matter on any of the democratic candidates. Mr. Major is a very nice kind of a man, although we think it can truly be said, that there are no good qualities which he possesses which do not appertain in equal degree to his Republican opponent; and in the matter of education, a very important qualification in a county clerk, the Republican candidate has a vast advantage. But what we would especially desire to call attention to just now, is the faot that Mr. Major is trying hard to gain Republican votes on the claim that he is pretty nearly the same as a Republican and that politics cuts but mighty little figure, compared with the personal friendship etc. All of which would go down better if we did not know that there is no more uncompromising a Democrat in Jasper county than Major; and that he would be the last man in the county to vote for a Republican. Another fact to be remembered about Mr. Major, is when he gets to working the anticourt house talk, and that is that he was one of the very few resU Hants of Carpenter township wtfq .''ed his name in favor of ■* a new court house, when ♦he township was taken nosition early in 1896.