Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1908 — A DEMOCRATIC TIP. [ARTICLE]

A DEMOCRATIC TIP.

A notable feature of this year is the fact that the Democrats are selecting the best men they can get in their party to run for office. They are picking the popular personalities, men wel) thought of in their communities apart from their politics. The Democrats are working to capture the next IndiQl bourse the brewere and whisky men are active. The party complexion of the next legislature them especially. They are not thinking of the election of a United States senator to succeed James Hemenway. They are planning to prevent the enactment of a county local option law, to which the Republican party to pledged. That is their prime purpose. And they will be grateful for any help the Prohbltlonists as third party men can give them. The other day, tn giving advice on the oomlng Montgomery oounty convention, the Crawfordsville Review, a dyed-in-the-wool Democratic paper, said' “The very best men must be selected,” and printed the imperative phrase in capital letters. That Is the Deinboratio demand all over the state. In some counties it has not been heeded, for in several instances candidates tor offioe as city and county prosecutors and state legislators have been named by the beer bosses and thrust into the running. But the demand is being heeded in many districts. For the Republicans the moral Is plain and dearly points a duty. The men nominated by the Republicans are the best men to elect, of course, but their election must needs be worked for oonßtantly and energetically thip year. Failure to elect the Republican state and legislative tickets in November would mark a step backward for this grand commonwealth of ours. These are the tickets that, with the oounty ticket, are nearest to the voter. They are even more important than is the presidential ticket, greatly Important as that la. An old and wise saw familiar to all may be adopted: Take care of your local tickets, and the national ticket will take care of itself. Take a tip from the leaders of the party opposed, and, having selected the best men, make sure of their election. Each Republican voter should be a Republican worker all the days before and cm election day. Ours are the very best men and the imperative word is, “the very best men must be elected.*’ The Indianapolis Star in speaking of the failure of congress to rush the passage of the bills urged upon It by the president, well says: “We hear a great deal about the ‘do-nothing policy’ and ‘inaction,’ as ,if statesmanship consists wholly In doing something, no matter what, and ss If all sins of commission have been obliterated as possibilities by those of omisßlon. There is a time to withhold as well as to give; and In the judgment of many capable students of affairs the present hoqr Is one in which the dangers of too much -law- may transcend those of too little. The wise administrator is glad at times to point with pride to things he has not done.**

. Andy Shlck of Marion, for forty years a Republican, he says, has become a devotee of the Democratic party. He is one of the heavy stockholders in the Indiana Brewing association. He says the Republican party Is affecting his "Interests" adversely, He Is right. His pocket touched, he ■loughs his political principles and dons the Democratic duds. There are others like Andy Shlck, but they are less In number than the temperance Democrats who are putting on the robe of civic righteousness and Republicanism this year. "Lest we forget,” let It be remembered that Indiana in 1896, two years after the Democratic panic, paid out for outdoor poor relief $830,168. In 1907 there was paid out only $227,304. The year 1908, the year following the Republican panic, will not exceed to any considerable extent the expenses of 1907. In 1894 many men worked for the township trustees of the state for |1 a day for two days In a week In order to keep the wolf from theli doors. Scratch a labor "leader" who Is loud la knocking a Republican candidate for any office, from congressman te constable, and you will find .a Demo oral actively at work for his politic* party la the regalia of trades unioa