Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — NO OUTSIDE DEMOCRAT NEED APPLY [ARTICLE]

NO OUTSIDE DEMOCRAT NEED APPLY

No Democrat of any pretension to political observation and judgment has faith in his party’s ability to carry Indiana, or any other northern state. The order has gone out from national headquarters to let go of state tickets, and elect as many congressmen and legislators as possible. The Democrats want a congressional majority to nullify | all the greatness the country has ! achieved under McKinley, to hamper 1 him in settling questions arising out of I the Spanish war, to institute an army ! investigation that will bring in a partiI san verdict in support ot current lies as ! to camp horrors, to depreciate the currency, to create deficits and encourage 1 foreign competition with home industries to, in tact, compromise the nation, stop progress, bring in again trade depression and souphouses. In a word, they want to play the deuce generally. 1 But in Indiana they have a side issue : in carrying Marion county at the exi pense of the Democrats outside of it. It is to boom Tom Taggart for governor, ' elect Leon Bailey to congress and send i David Turpie back to the senate, with a possible reversion of the seat to Sum | Morss, John Kern or Bailey, and perhaps Taggart. All of these gentlemen belong to Indianapolis. The scheme is that for great preferment no Democrat outside of Indianapolis need apply. No one has failed to observe the pitiful plight the relators of war mismanagement have put themselves in by insinuating horrors rather than giving facts. Their plea is always, "We are still lin the service and cannot talk. When i we aretfree, then we will lie freely." Of all the tales set afloat by this class of cowards, not one has had the strength to live n week. No stronger proof is needed of their lock of truth.