Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — National Ticket. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

National Ticket.

For President. William H. McKinley. For Vice-President. Theodore RoosvElt. THE STATE TICKET. iMHtr, WINFIELD T. DURBIN, Madison County. fh* Ueatoeant Governor, NEWTON W. GILBERT, Steuben County. . \ VWr tMMUry of State, UNION B. HUNT, Randolph County. .. Aattar of State, WILLIAM H. HART, Cklntea Cenaty* ' -<£ ■ to Weaasrer of State, LEOPOLD LEVY, ■Mtlayton County. ; Mt Haraey General, WILLIAM L. TAYLOR, Marioa County. Ofep tWMHafendent Public Instructioa, L FRANK L. JONES, Tipton County. to Ito BtaUetician, B. F. JOHNSON, Benton County. _ _ MW Bafwitr Supreme Court, «• CHARLES F. REMY, Jackson County. . . . Supreme Court, JAMES H. JORDAN, Moryan County. ~ . . (Mb Mrtrtct, LEANDER J. MONKS _ . Baudot oh Counts. Republican District Ticket. For Congressman T\nth District, Edgar D. Crumpaoker of Valparaiso. For Prosecuting Attorney, John D‘ Sink of Newton County. For State Senator Eben”H. Wolcott. For Joint Representative. John W. Beckman of Lake County.

Republican County Ticket. For Treasurer R. A. Pahkison. For Sheriff Abraham G. Hardy. For Recorder Robert B. Porter J For Surveyor Myrt B. Price. • For Assessor John R. Phillips. For Coroner Truitt P. Wright. For Commissioner Second District Simeon A. Dowell. For Commissioner Third District Frederick Waymire. For County Councilmen, at Large John Haan Charles T. Denham Israel B. Washburn. Ist district, E. T. Biggs 2nd district, Nathan Eldredge 3rd district Erhardt Weurthner 4th district Frank Babcock 1 Some of the Republican speakers put it entirely too strong when they say all business was prostrate four years ago. Free soup houses flourbed then as they never flourished »fore or since.

The Havemeyera who are at the head of the Sugar trust are doinij all in their power to elect Bryan. The employes at Marshall Field <fc Co. at Chicago took a test am ing themselves Monday and the result was 851 for McKinley and 149 for Bryan. Marshall Field is himself a democrat. When the resolution giving the federal government greater power over trusts was up before the House of Representatives at the recent session, every Democrat but five voted against it. Mr. Kern, Democratic candidate for Governor, says we ‘‘can’t read the Declaration of Independence any more on the 4th of July.’’ Mr. Kern takes entirely too gloomy a view of the matter. Because the democrats of Carolina override and trample the constitution and declaration under foot is no reason why we shouldn’t have an occasional good time here in Indiana.

“Principles not men’’ is a true and correct motto, but when anyone thinks they can be faithful to principles~and at the same time unfaithful to the men who represent those principles, they make a great mistake. And this fact applies” even right in the matters nearest home, in our township and county affairs, as much as in any. The man who injures his party in local affairs injures it right at its fountain head. There is no readier way for a man to loosen his own regard for correct party principles than to begin cutting and slashing his local party ticket. And there is no other way half so sure of driving others away from the party either. Charity begins at home.” is an old familiar saying. Party fealty begins at home is just as true, and much more important in the affairs of government. It is easy enough for that polished and truthful gentleman, the editor of the Jasper County Democrat to call other people liars, especially from the safe seclusion of his office, but if The Re pi b*Lh an editor* lied when he said Gen. Weaver ranked McKinley with Jeff Davis,” then there are a dozen or more of the best citizens in town who come under the same category. And it will not be hard to find even some besides Republicans who will admit that whdtt Weaver said plainly admitted of that construction. “I have books here to prove it,"’declared Weaver. Then he read some garbled extracts from Jeff Davis’ book. 1 Then he told a story of two men, who got to fighting. They both wore overcoats and fought a long , time. When they got through they had, by some means, traded so that each man was wearing the other’s overcoat. The plain and evident application of the story, and just as Weaver meant it to be applied, was that McKinley was now. figuratively speaking, wearing Jeff Davis’ overcoat. In other words that McKinley represented now the spirit and principles that Davis represented 35 years ago.

Calamity always has been, and always will be, the chief stock in trade of the democratic pariy. It has always been a calamity howler, always prospers on calamity—of the imaginary kind rather than the real—and yet it has been the record of that party for more than forty years. It has brought calamity threefold greater than its orators compllined of whenever it secured power in the United States. It is a party of croakers. Consequently it is with great glee that the democrats hail the strike in Pennsylvania The prospect for higher prices for coal, to be prid by the rich and poor alike, seems to be a tonic to the democratic spirits, for they figure on making political cai)ital out of the strike in Pennsylvania. The general impression in New York is that it is a democratic strike, was organized, originated and fostered by the democratic leaders for political effect in this presidential campaign. Of course every man

who L-nows anything is perfectly aware that the Republican party and the national administration have nothing what ever to do with the strike nor the grievances of which the miners complainEvery democratic orator on the stump and the democratic papers have already begun to hold the republican party responsible for all the ills that may grow out of this strike and which may have deplorable consequences before it ends. A strike inaugurated solely for political es- j feet is nothing short of crime ~

M’KINLEY AND ROOSEVELT.