Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1908 — STATE PRESS COMMENT [ARTICLE]

STATE PRESS COMMENT

It may also be predicted with a reftscalable degree of certainty that when the Rev. Kuhn sought the Democratic nomination for governor with the understanding that ft was to be a "highminded Christian campaign,” he overcapitalised his good opinion of the party he is trailing with. —Lebanon Fatriot. And now we think about It—-Vice president Fairbanks was. the first statesman who refused to let his working assistants accept any campaign funds from corporations fer securing party success. In this he was a pioneer practical reformer on lines that have become the lines of activity of more noisy reformers.—Elkhart Review. -» " ________ Republicans of Indiana met every issue squarely that looms up as an element in the coming campfetgn, at. their recent state .convention. There was no straddling or uncertain tones about the platform adopted. The people of the commonwealth know where td find the party on all questions.— Covington Republican. I Steve Fleming, the Fort Wayne brewer, and Democratic candidate for the. legislature,, vociferously shouts that he will stand on. the terupowtneeplank of the Democratic platform. Ail the worse for the platform,, that' a brewer is willing to stand on it. The AnthSalbon League has declared .this same plank to be a step backward because it endangers the present remonstrance- law. . So there oughtn’t to be any doubt where the temperance vote will land this fall. —Crawfordsvllle journal. The Republican. state convention held at Indianapolis last week ,was by far the largest in the history of any party in Indiana. The ticket nominated is a good one and its election is assured. Notwithstanding the bitter rivalry for governor, the best of feeling prevailed, and after the convention was over the feeling was unanimous that the ticket would. easily prove a winner. The campaign in Indiana this year will be a vigorous one, as the Democrats also have a good ticket and are more hopeful than in years. However, the Republican platform is the better by far, the local option plank with the county as the unit being worth thousands of votes to the ticket.—Petersburg Press. It is easy for the intelligent voter who sincerely and conscientiously desires to be right on the question of temperance to differentiate between the Republican and Democratic platforms. The former endorsee the laws as they stand and through which so mueh good has been accomplished, adding c ounty local option as a strengthener. The latter proposes to substitute local option, county, township and ward, for the present laws. The one keeps the enforcement of the laws in the hands of their friends, the temperance people. The other turns it into politics and gives the whisky and brewing interests a chance to defeat the advocates of temperance by methods the employment of which they understand perfectly. Which do you prefer, intelligent voter? New Castle Courier.

There are members of both , the Republican and Democratic parties in Tipton county who declare that the platforms adopted by the state convention of each party has gone too far In their opposition to liquor and the saloons, and especially do these people criticise the Republican party for declaring for local option with the county as the unit Thia may be the opinion of some, but it is by no means the sentiment of the general public, for It is an assured fact that the people of Indiana are growing very tired of the brewers and liquor interests having their way about things like they have had in the past and the sooner they learn that they are to be controlled by the law instead of them controlling tho law, the better it will be for them. The Advocate is willing to admit that the liquor question will in all probability be the leading Issue In the campaign, and any advanoed step which the Republican party takes in the liquor question the greater will be its victory when the votes are counted on election day.—Tipton Advocate.