Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1906 — A TAX DODGER [ARTICLE]

A TAX DODGER

Is the Reputation of Democratic Nominee for Congress In First District. In a recent address before a political’ convention In his home city Senator Hemenway referred to Major Mensies, the Democratic nomineee for congressman for the First district, as a tax-dodger, saying that Menzies had paid no taxes for eight years, although he drew a salary as county attorney for Posey County and from thv state as a member of the State Monument Commisssion. “I have always been taught,” said Senator Hemenway, “that ths man who represents the people should bea good citizen, who pays his portion toward the support of the county and state. The old soldier, crippled with disease, and who draws a small pension, hobbles up to the court house and pays his part of the tax; the widow with children to support pays her pittance, but the man whom the Democrats have nominated for congress is a tax-dodger and has not paid a cent of tax for eight years. “Who is this man the Democrats have nominated? He is a major. In what regiment did he serve? Alas, he is only a Kentucky major. Hewas educated by the government at Annapolis. For the education he was given SSO a month. Did he ever offer his services to the government in time of war? Menzies often came to Washington until the time of the Spanish-American war, when his visits became very infrequent. He was not like that noble patriot, Lteut. James Grey of Evansville, who hastened to Washington and offered his services at the first sound of battle in Cuba. Why didn’t Menzies do this? Let him answer.” Recalls Fight on Bryan. Continuing, Senator Hemenway said that the Democrats had nominated a man who fought Bryan in the last Democratic national convention and who supported the delegates from Illinois whom Bryan had pronouncsd to that convention were worse than train robbers. "What does the Democracy of Indiana stand for, anyway?” queried the senator. “It claims to be for Bryan, yet it has nominated a man in the first district who is an enemy of Bryan. The prospects for a Republican victory in Indiana were never brighter, and the grand old party will sweep the state this falL“