Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1908 — MARSHALL’S SPEECH; NOTHING IN IT [ARTICLE]

MARSHALL’S SPEECH; NOTHING IN IT

Democratic Candidate for Governor Entertains But Uses No Argument to Prove Assertions.

Very pleasing but very thin. That seems to be the concensus of opinion about Rensselaer in respect to the speech made Wednesday night by Hon. Thos. R, Marshall, democratic candidate for governor of Indiana. Mr. Marshall spoke at Morocco In the afternoon and came here in the evening with District Chairman J. Kirby Risk, A. J. Law and another man in Mr. Law’s automobile, and all were entertained at a 6 o’clock dinner by Edward P. Honan and wife. The Honan glee club furnished music and Mr. Honan acted as chairman of the meeting, introducing Mr. Marshall ad the next governor of Indiana. The house was packed to its utmost capacity and many were turned away. Mr. Marshall prefaced his remarks b v saying that he was not a politician and concluded his address by saying that he had not delivered a political speech, and as it was entirely barren of argument most of his auditors readily agreed with him that it was not a political address. He made a great many charges against the business management of the state and the nation by tbe republicans and without Specifying any of the difficulties that he considered so threatening he employed sly methods of trying to make people believe that the old ship of sta f e had got itself into a very bad way and that there was only one relief. That relief was not prescribed according to the pure food law of having all of the ingredients printed on the label, but copsisted of a recommendation that the republicans be turned out and the democrats elected, which of course was supposed to mem tint t’ e democrats would correct all the defects, patch up the hull of the vessel and keep her afloat, even if she did. shut off the steam and let her drift with the tide by taking the tariff off the articles that are now American factory made. • He joked a great deal and kept

| everybody in a good humor and dodged a great many issues and questions by. evasion. He alleged that the state government now was being administered at a great advance over the [ cost of a few years ago, and did not admit that the increase has come simply with the Increase of population i and that as a matter of fact the percapita cost today is only 68 cents as against 90 cents during the last democratic administration in the state. ' He dodged the question of the I brewery support of the democratic party in the state by saying that he was paying the expense of his own campaign and by asking if he j looked like a millionaire, in response to the statement the the brewers were paying the freight to that extent He touched on the preacher position by saying that he was neither the preacher candidate nor the brew* er candidate, nor the candidate of any special class, but be could not deny that the brewers were assisting his candidacy, and he did not try to claim that they were not. And he did not say what he would do to ' the county option bill If he could ' get a crack at it, and he did not say j what he would do in other legislation relating to temperance if he got a chance. | A Rensselaer school teacher sent ! up a question to him to ask if he had been correctly* quoted in the matter of his opposition to the teach1 era’ minimum wage law, and he said ! he had, but modified it considerably, ' and yet recommended a change that would result in the very abuse that the teachers’ law cori ec s. I Mr. Marshall talked for an hour and three-quarters and while his speech was very pleasing, there seems no doubt but that as a political argument it was altogether wii hout merit, and people that went there for thought and reason went away disappointed.-