The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1905-01-22

for forty odd years, and it is my pri
! vate opinion that there is less sense IL
the above quoted paragraph from
have ever read in all of those years
A man does not have IL agree with
Bryan in anything to know and be
! justified in asserting that he is thu
greatest living orator. Indeed, u is
| not at all certain but that he is the
we'll enough to differ with him. but
| the man who undertakes 60 belittle
Bryan merely writes AimscR down an
ass.
"Watchman, What Of Che hous?S
With one Republican. United States
senator under sonviction Burton OF
Kansas and another Republican
United States senator tAIitchell of Ore
gon). together with 4 Republican Aon-
gresham (Hernann of aregon) under
Indictment, one may we'll exclaim with
Cicero: 20 Temporal: 0 mores"' Every
body was surprised and shocked by the
Indictment Of Senator Mitchell. and
everybody is prone to hope that when
all the facts are brought forth his if
nOcence may be made clear. OF course
if he is guilty lie ought to be punished.
but let US hope that he is innocent. He
has been Il long time in the senate
Had he served continuously from his
first election he would now be closing
his thirty-second year in that body,
sometimes called the august" but in
Oregon the political Jordan is de-
cidedly hard road to travel. Twice
since 1873 Senator Mitchell has lost his
footing and been defeated, but his cleo
ton after defeat only served to show
his hold on the people of Oregon. Mr.
Hermann has served fourteen years in
the house and six in the land office as
commissioner. His congressional serv-
ice has been devided into two sections
by his service as commissioner of the
land Office. He is an able man.
Indiana Corruption.
The prospect of political death some
times has the same effect as prospects
of physical death in this, the dying per-
son is forced thereby to tell the truth.
This seems to be the case with ex-Gov-
ernor Durbin Of Indiana, who very re-
Gently stepped down and out. He want
ed to be vice president and failed in
that He desired to succeed Charles
W. Fairbanks in the senate, but failed
in that. The constitution of Indiana
did not permit him to be reelected to
the governorship, so as he vanishes in
to space he shoots into his Republican
brethren Parthian arrow which will
rankle dangerously in the G. .. r.
alias the g. o. H.
Now. in considering Governor Dur
bins remarkable language let it not be
forgotten that he is a rampant Repub-
lican-so rampant, in fact. that he
would not give Governor William S.
Taylor up to the Kentucky authorities
for trial on the charge of being impii-
Gated in the conspiracy to murder. Gov
ernor Goebel. Let it. also be remember
ed that since 1S94--a space of ten years
the Republicans have had absolute
control of Indiana and that at the last
election they carried the state by near
~ 100000 majority
In making his adieus as chief naagis-
trate of Hoosierdom Governor Durbin
said inter ALA:
The time has come for the application
OF drastic remedial measures to- the
plague of corruption which is fastening
itself upon our politics. We have in In
diana advanced legislation for the pro-
lection of the purity. of the ballot, but
the statistics of political debauchery in
this state for 1904, If it were possible to
present them. would be nothing short of
astounding. I am Informed by unques-
toned authority that in a single county in
Indiana casting in 1902 a little more than
!, 600 votes there were in the last cam
paign nearly 100 voters regularly listed
as purchasable and that $4,000 raised by
assessment from candidates and other
wise were spent by the contending po-
littcal parties In the effort % control the
county.
Now, gentle reader, does not thaa jar
you from center to circumference, from
core to skin! If that does not. then
surely these words from his Republican
will do it.:
Instances have come to my attention
during the last few weeks where, in con-
tests for township trustees, votes have
brought SIS and $50 each. Our present
need is legislation framed in the light of
. clearer conception Of the enormity of the
offense involved in the purchase or sale of
q vote. Our present statute is farcical, as
It places no penalty on the vote buyer /
believe consideration should be given to
the advisability of requiring the gradual
Of voting machines.
Several thoughts will spring from a
perusal of the foregoing excerpt from
Governor Durbin's farewell message.
This state Of corruption exists under
auspices. It surely was
not brought about overnight or even
since the late great Republican tri-
umph in Hoosierdom On the con-
trary, the chances are that the cor
ruption Of which he speaks produced
the remarkable Republican majority
n Indiana last November and has pro-
luced the Republican majorities there
or the last ten years. How does it |
happen that Governor Durbin never
discovered this extraordinary corrup-
ion until he was quitting Office? Was
he blind and deaf as we'll as dumb ON |
he subject during his four years in |