Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THE GRIME OF ’92 MUST NOT BE COMMITTED MIN. “Get out and vote.” This may well be the war cry of Indiana Republicanism from now until the hour comes for closing the polls on Tuesday, Nov. 4. Let there be no repetition of the crime of *92, when through the indifference and inaction of Republicans the country was sentenced to si quadrennium which had for its symbol the soup house. NO REPUBLICAN CAN SHIFT HIS PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RESULT OF THE COMING ELECTION—AN ELECTION OF SPECIAL IMPORTANCE TO INDIANIANB, BECAUSE THE PRESTIGE OF * THE STATE IN THE SENATE AND THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES IS AT BTAKE. It takes ten times as much effort to regain lost ground as It does to.hold territory already captured.' The Republican who fails to exert himself this year will find the work necessary to be done in the next national campaign immeasurably increased by the results of his shortcoming this year. 4 No Republican’s responsibility ends with his casting his own ballot on Nov. 4. Upon him rests the duty of seeing that his neighbor does likewise. Here is a juncture in which every Republican is his brother’s keeper. 1 To win a great victory at the polls this year It is only necessary for the full Republican vote to be cast. In order that the full Republican vote be cast it is absolutely necessary that from now on Republicans of the rank and file, who are final determinants of party success or failure, not only arouse themselves from that sense of security which, uninterrupted, would mean defeat, but impress upon their neighbors the importance, the necessity, of following a similar course. ■ GET OUT AND VOTE. MORE THAN THAT, GET OUT THE VOTE. INDIANA DEMOCRATIC ORCANIZATION IN HANDS OF TRIMMERS. The truth Is that the element In the Indiana Democracy that is loyal to the Chicago and Kansas City platforms, and this means nine-tenths of the rank and file, has nothing to gain, and, indeed, has much to lose, by the success of the reorganizers who have gained control of the party machinery In this state. Mr. Bryan knows, and his followers know, that the success of the Indiana reorganizers would be taken as an indorsement of the Hill presidential boom, for which Mr. Taggart, Democratle state convention for national chairman, has the Indffiha rights. No longer ago than 1894 Mr. Hill was denounced in the Indiana Democratic state platform for having “betrayed” the party by standing Ui the way of the Wilson bill, and It Is not at ail likely that the Indiana Democrats who supported Mr. Bryan from honest conviction, will care to be tied to the tail-gate of Mr. Hill’s bandwagon, now that he hat ceased to be a “very still" Democrat, and Is seeking support from those re refused to former campaigns. A question wortiy of discussion is whether Democrats who eincerely believe in what the last two national platforms of the party stood for, and who are not merely political opportunists willing to support any old thing which promises party success, care to assist the reorganizers In making a showing which would be a source of strength to them'in regaining control of the party machinery next year. THE VITAL ERROR OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP. • #- \ By Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw. Democratic leadership brought the proposition to the people In 1892 that the tariff seas a tax. Gen. Harrison gave the warning at that time that there la such a thing as having goods too cheap, but the people would not hoed, and wo had cheap goods. Do you want cheap goods again? It is too early to repeat tHose conditions. They said In 1892, “You are overtaxed.” I remember very well the pictures they used to get out, following a man from the cradle to thq grave, having hint put on taxed clothes In the morning, eat a taxed breakfast out of taxed dishes, and so on through the gamut of existence# Then the country was turned over to our Demooratlo friends. Will you pardon me If I say that the result was not what they promised? There were many Instances where men sorrowed for their mistake. One man out In my country who voted for free wool admitted that he got within 5 cents of It * 1 HAVE ONE CRITICISM TO MAKE THAT I ALWAYB MAKE. IT BEEM3 TO ME, MY DEMOCRATIC FRIENDS, THAT YOUR POLITICAL LEADERS HAVE BPENT TIME TRYING TO FIND I33UES ON WHICH TO WIN A CAMPAIGN RATHER THAN IN FORMULATING POLICIES FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF THE GOVERNMENT AFTER THEY SHOULD WIN. THE DANGER TEAT LURKS IN A DEMOCRATIC HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES By Senator Marcus A. Hanna. * ”\ If there Is any danger in this campaign In Indiana or in the United States, It Is because the people are too well satisfied with, their environment; too apt to be apathetic; too apt to forget their duty. Therefore, I say, If I have any work to do in this campaign, it is not only to admonish the boys to stand pat, but to admonish every Republican who has any interest at stake to realize the responsibility that rests upon him and him only. This responsibility, which so affects our well being, good government and good morals, Is a responsibility that cannot be divided. Your neighbor’s shoulders are not broad enough to help you. Therefore let us realize our responsibility. Change that house of representatives and give over the control of that body to the Democratic party, and what will follow? I will wait, you will wait, to see the effect of it Every man who Is engaged in any enterprise or business will wait to see how that change will affect his interest what will be the effect on the money market? That waiting will slow down the wheels of Industry, and the waiting will continue Just as long as that house is Democratc. "Therefore, people of Indiana, take warning and don’t indulge In the fallacy that it would make but little difference to your conditions if that result should follow. , ji LOOK OUT FOR LAST HOUR ROORBACKS! ij It appears that republicans ehould be prepared for almost any sort of laat-moment campaigning on the part of Indiana Democratic leadership this year. Within the past few days there has beam circulated through the Democratic press of the state an articla reflecting on the personal character of Fassett A. Cotton, Republican candidate for superintendent of public instruction. A charge of personal dlahoneaty la based on an alleged Interview with Mr. D. f M. Geetlng, former state superintendent of public instruction, who is quoted as giving tacit recognition of the truth of the charges made. Mr. Geetlng Indignantly deniea that ho gave out any auch impression, or that there Is the slight-st truth In the allegations made, and every party referred to in the art’cle denounces the slander as an Infamous effort to besmirch the eharact-r, not only of a candidate for office, but of one, who in ail probability, will socn be brought Into intimate relations with the public school system of the state. That ehould be made In the closing days of a campaign, withou) other provocation or justification than party expediency, and so utterly outside the pale of docent politics and common honesty that even tha Damocratlc state organ has abstained from using the etory, Is a causa for resentment, not merely on the part of Republicans, but of thost who beliav# that mudsllnglng ought not bo part of the stock in trade of party management This attack la, howevar, a consistent culmination for a campaign In which those making It have been laboring under the disadvantage of being without a leader and without eithar a policy or an issue, and have been driven *a such extremities In the effort to make out a case in the face of adverse pubAMp t?’-'‘ M