Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1906 — Indiana’s Political Millennium. [ARTICLE]

Indiana’s Political Millennium.

A plan which has already been agreed to by five counties of Indiana is designed to dispense altogether with the mercenary worker and the venal voter in the coming fall elections. The leaders on both sides have pledged their words aa friends and neighbors not to spend a dollar for such purposes. It is agreed that there shall be employed no man who is known to be purchasable, and the custom of keeping hangers-on at headquarters shall be abandoned. It is also provided that no money shall be paid out for taking thirty-day and sixty-day polls, and she re it is necessary to employ labor both sides shall pay the same wages and employ no man to whom the other would object. Inspectors and judges of elections afe to be selected entirely outside of those who serve the campaign committee, and, if possible, business men of known integrity are to be chosen. The plan waa formulated by leading Democrats, and has met with the approval of their political ‘adversaries. Neither the State nor tbs ‘county committees will pay the expenses of stump speakers except in the case oi men called from other States.