The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1905-09-01
w. c.. U. N.
CONDUCTED BY MRS. NJ. L. HOBBS.
Pepubllcsn Party Turns Down The
Preachers.

parts of the State to write letters
10 their representatives and SEN
ators. urging them to vote for
personal registration Then they
wrote to all the first and second
cousins of the members of the
legislature asking them to bring
every influence possible to bear
on the Legislature in favor of
their pet measure. The syste-
matte work of these good preach
ers stirred up a whole lot of SEN
timent in all parts of the State,
which had been stirred up several
times before in favor of the new
law. and many of them were so
perfectly confident that the new
law would be forthcoming that
they must be willing to sell them
selves for about three cents
apiece now when the Legislature
has adjourned without even the
pretense of considering the ques-
ton at all.
Ii is said that more letters
were written to the Legislature
asking for a new registration law
for Philadelphia than were writ
ten in the interests of all other
measures combined
The good preachers of the city
of brotherly love did about every
thing that anybody could think
Of to secure the law except one
thing, and that one thing which
they failed to do was the most
important thing in the whole
bunch. They denounced boss
rule roundly, held big prayer
meetings for the mayor, preach
ed red-hot sermons in favor of
political reform, wrote letters by
the score to members of the Leg
islature and TO all their aunts
and uncles at home. The one
thing they did not do was to en-
ter a vigorous protest against
political corruption at the ballot
box. They talked for reform,
wrote letters for reform, preach
ed for reform, prayed for reform
but voted for the gang at
whose dictation the Legislature
adjourned without even the pre-
tense of considering the question
of personal registration at all.
There were candidates in the
field who were openly pledged to
personal registration and many
other equally important reforms,
but the preachers-most OF them
preferred to vote for men who
were not only not committed to
personal registration personally
but We're the candidates of parties
which were known to be under
the dictation of the same machine
exactly which had defeated per-,
sonal registration two or three
times before.
The trouble with the preachers
Of Philadelphia, and many other
parts of the country, is'that the
gang has no respect for them.
Come to think of it there are a
good many other people who do
not belong to the gang at all, and
are in no way influenced by it, |
who do not have much respect
Tor many of the preachers. 1t Isl
exceedingly hard work for a man
who respects himself. and is try
ing to do the right thing ly
everybody, to sit and listen patti
emily to a preacher who preach
es and prays one way and votes
exactly the opposite way. Next I
to the sin of preaching and pray
ing one way and voting the other
way comes the sin of listening to
a preacher who does that sort of
business.
1t occurs to us that we have
had boys play enough in the
politics of this country. While
We are fooling with our non-par-
hsan foolishness the country is,
gong to the devil on a gallop.
We are already absolutely under
the rule of the bad elements.
Fad men get what ever they ask
Tor from our Legislatures while
good men get nothing.
We are told that political man
ayers will consult good men andI
defer to them. Political manag-
ers will do nothing of the kind. |;
Political managers never consult,
anybody or defer to anybodyII
who will vote the ticket whetherl
consulted or not. One man whoIs
mas courage enough to get out off,
the party, whenever he is not :
pleased, has more influence with,
the average political managerI
than a thousand men who will re-