Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1908 — Issues and Candidates. [ARTICLE]

Issues and Candidates.

As tn 1896, when the delegatee to the Republican state convention of Indiana harkened to the appeal of Charles W. Fairbanks to stand firmly against the fallacy of the free coinage of stiver and in favor of the gold standard, thereby presenting a basis for the financial declaration which nominated McKinley and swept the country on the twin Issues of protection and a gold standard, so in 1908 the Republicans of Indiana* have again accepted the wise counsel of Mr. Fairbanks in favor of tariff revision on protection fines and at the earliest practicable date. The responses to the able- letter of the vice president, from all sections of tbeoountry, north, south, east and west, must be as pleasing to him as they are gratifying and encouraging to his friends, and there can be no doubt that the sentiment favorable to his nomination as a safe, courageous and popular candidate has been given a decided impetus.—New Castle Courier.

Mr. Bryan swears not at all, but there must be moments these days when he is alone in which he wonders why on earth the fathers of the Democratic party ever adopted that twothirds rule for its national conventions. Each ’vote for a Prohibitionist this year in Indiana win add to the chances of success for the saloon men and the Democrats. Our friends the Democrats are in a bad way this year. If they nominate Bryan for the presidency, they know that their party is doomed to defeat IT they choose any other man, they reafiae that Bryan will work for the achievement of the same end—doomed if they do and doomed if they don’t Just bow meaningless is the temperance plank in the Democratic platform may be seen if we imagine it written Into law and then attempt to apply it in Monroe township, for instance. The plank would leave the remonstrance law as it is and then also provides for an election by townships and wards. Suppose Monroe township goes dry by remonstrance, as it has. Suppose next week or next month those who desire saloons property provide for an election on the subject and the Election carries for the "wets.” Then shall the township be “wet” or “dry”? Or suppose a week after a township voted wet, the county commissioners acted favorably on a remonstrance? Confusion in temperance ranks, litigation in the courts, and a getting away from the remonstrance which is rapidly making Indiana dry is what the saloons and breweries want, and that is what one votes for who votes for the Democratic state platform next fall. There is no use in mincing words about a proposition that is as plain as that is.—Winamac Republican.

Taking into consideration the increased value of land and farm products, the increase in taxes, it any occur, in recent years, falls lighter on the farmers than an any other class of people.