Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1908 — Let Every Republican Vote. [ARTICLE]

Let Every Republican Vote.

Don’t let anything keep you away from the polls next Thursday, Sept. 17th. There is only one office to be filled, that of state senator, but it is a very important one and the effect of this election is certain to result of this election is certain to in November, and a vote for the republican ticket now means more than a vote in November. Then there is no more important office for which a vote can be cast than that of a state senator, for he is the representative of his district in the affairs of the state and has to do with all the laws that regulate the business interests of the state. He also casts a vote for the selection of a United States senator. While all of these things are not to be discussed during this short and special term of the legislature, there are things to come up that are equally important and that should make every voter anxious to exercise his voice in the selection of their law maker.

The county local option matter will be taken up and the republicans will endeavor to pass a county local option bill, as an advanced movement in temperance. This will be opposed by democrats almost altogether, for Thos. R. Marshall, the democratic candidate. for governor, has said that he will stand during the campaign firmly on the democratic platform of township and ward option: Occasionally some fearless democratic candidate, who is in favor of advanced temperance legislation, has declared that he will support a county option measure, and occasionally some republican, who is controlled by brewery interests announces that he will refuse to support the, county option but the line is so plainly drawn that it is for the voters to line up on the temperance issue, and vote with a full knowledge of what their candidate will do. Abraham Halleck, of this city, the republican nominee of this district, stands squarely on the republican platform and will support the county jption measure, and do all in his power to effect its passage and then to do all that the people of Indiana and the interests of his district as the people believe them to be, require of their representative in the state senate.

It has been said of Mr. Law that he is a farmer and for that reason should have the support of farmers. Mr. Halleck has also been a farmer nearly all of his life and since his retirement from farming much of his time has been, taken up in representing the interests of farmers in the courts in ditch matters, etc. No man is better qualified to represent the Interests of the tanner than Mr. Halleck. The temperance legislation of the state Is imperiled by the alteration proposed by the democrats; while the change proposed by the republicans means a conquest, for temperance, and the eventual closing of more than half the saloons now doing business. It is a time for temperance people to get busy, and they should swell the republican majority handsomely in this district.

“Suffering day and night the torment of itching piles. Nothing helped me untQ,! used Doan's Ointment It cured me permanently.’’—Hon. John R. Garrett, Mayor, Girard, Ala.