Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1908 — John W. Kern for U. S. Senate. [ARTICLE]

John W. Kern for U. S. Senate.

As a political mis-move we had rather hoped that the democrats of Indiana would send Tom Taggirt to the United States Senate, but In t e Interests of the state and of general decency, we are pleased to tee th t Tom has decided to get out of the way and let some other democrat have the senatorial plum, and since Tom Is out we know of no democrat we should sooner see sent to Washington to represent the state Indiana that John. W. Kern, late candidate for vice-president on t e democratic ticket The Republican did think that Mr. Kern was not quite the man for vice-president, net sufficiently fitted for possible ascendancy to the piAesldency, but that he stands head and ehou’de s above any other democrat in Indiana in point of broadness and qualities of statesmanship, there can be no doubt. And the fact that he twice represented his party as a gubernatorial candidate and then as ’ the candidate for vice-president, each time with a hopeless chance for success, entitles him to some reward and the only opening Js to become a United States senator. We feel su e that almost every democrat In Jasper county would prefer' John W. Kern to all of those who have bedn mentioned and we also fesl that republicans as well as democrats would regret the calamity of having the state represented by a man as corrupt as Tom Taggart, whose open support of the liquor Interests and his continued vice resort at French Lick.', has given him a moral rating that Indiana should not be compelled to stand for in Its national congress.