Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1902 — PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS [ARTICLE]

PARAGRAPHIC POINTERS

The Democratic* state convention in Nebraska was persona'l.v conducted by Mr. Bryan. If the colonel had taken the trouble to attend the Indiana convention he would not have had to complain in “The Commoner’’ about a Mammonized platform. The census returns show that dur ing the decade ending with 1899 the number of men employed in manufacturing industries in Indiana increased 41 per cent, which is a great result, but that during the same time the amount paid out in wages in these industries increased 54 per cent, which is a greater one. If the cost per capita of maintaining the wards of the state in the charitable and correctional institutions had been the same in 1901 as it was in 1891, Indiana would tyave paid out $311,353 more than she did last year for this purpose. A vote for Republican legislative candidates is a vote for the continuance of the present era of economy in the management of the state’s business. “Virginius killed his daughter to save her chastity; Cleveland stabbed his party to prevent its return to the paths of virtue. And now, still gloating over his political crimes, he invites the party to return to him and apologize for the contempt which it has expressed for him. Will it? Not until the principles of Jefferson are forgotten and the works of Jackson cease to inspire.”—From William J. Bryan's Lincoln interview of June 22.

The suppression of Bryan sentiment in the Democratic state convention was an easy matter for the reorganizers. but the precincts are now being heard from. H. S. Hoover of Richmond, voices the sentiments of thousands of Indiana Democrats when he saya in a letter to the Indlanapolia News: “The abandonment of a great issue, supported honestly and earnestly by hundreds of thousands of true and loyal Democrats through the state and natibn, deserve* the condemnation of all true Democrats, and such perfidy merits and will receive a terrible chastisement at the hands of the Indiana Democracy this falL” Dr. George Wright of Indianapolis contributes to the same issue of the News a card in which he says: “I would not like to continue in partnership with men who, although in a minority, if they cannot control will do all they can to ruin the business.” . The chances are that the reoqpnizeta will wish they had let the job alone for a while longer.