The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-10-21
William Dudley FouIke Says
SpoiIs System Is Return to
FeudaIism and Dishonest as
Bribery.
ELECT MARSHALL AND
TAKE STEP BACKWARD.
In indianapolis, Richmond Man
Bitterly AssaiIs Democratic
Candidate for Governor in
Speech.

In a strong denunciatory speech
dealing with Thomas Marshall, demo
cratic candidate for governor, deliver
ed at Caleb Mills hall, Indianapolis,
last evening, William Dudley Foulke,
of this CITY, depicted the nominee as
standing for medieval principles and
theories Marshall was assailed for
his conception of public office and the
speaker left no doubt in the minds of
his hearers that to elect Marshall
would be a step backward. The audi
ence was enthusiastic and responded
with cheers and tumultous applause.
Mr.. Foulke took UP the declarations
of Marshall at Knightstown and Beth
any park, in which he asserted his
determination to stand by the burbon
principle of to the victor belongs the
spoils. Mr.. Foulke is very decided in
his advocacy of the civil service ideas
and he flayed Marshall right and left
for his attitude. He declared the
spoils system is return to feudalism
and is as dishonest as bribery. IF
his ideas, it will debauch our state
penal and reformatory institutions and
make the work being done there a
farce" the speaker said.
'The idea came in with Andrew
Jackson and flourished vigorously un-
til about 1888, when the civil service
reforms idea took root. Mr.. Marshall's s
M ffa fo hn
tenn is a crime against progress. His
proposal, if carried to it's logical ex-
treme, will corrupt every penal insti-
tuition in the state. I say it is no less
than bribery to hold up the promise
of office to workers in the political
field, and it is just as dishonest
The position of Mr.. Watson, the re-
publican candidate. the speaker de-
clared, so far as he had heard an ex-
preston from him on the subject or
knew of it by his record, was opposed
to the distribution of spoils. In re-
gard to the candidacy of Mr.. Watson,
he refuted the statement generally
made that he was an enemy of labor
by giving to the audience the names
OF measures of type distinctly favor
able to labor which Mr.. Watson had
supported. Among them he mention.
ed the act establishing the department
of commerce and labor, the act exclud.
ing Chinese labor, the act providing
for the use of safety appliances to pro.
tect the life of railroad employees, an
act providing for the inspection OF
water craft for safety, an act providing
that letter carriers shall not work
more than forty-eight hours, an act
providing for the investigation of the
working conditions of women and chill
dren and an act making fire escapes
obligatory in factories.
| County unit local option was declar
ed still an issue in that the question
being put up to the voter is Shall the
law be repealed?"
THE influence of the saloon and the
distillery," said the speaker, aside
from the harm of the widespread use OF
| liquor, has always been to corrupt poll
| tics. You can not blame the brewers
for combining now for the election OF
Mr.. Marshall, and Mr. Marshall in none
of his statements has declared any in.
tention of doing anything harmful to
these interests
Mr.. Foulke then spoke upholding the
law as a proper one. He had inquired
while in Maine, recently, he said, of the
operation of the prohibition law there
| The law was not enforced, he said
where the local sentiment was against
it. In Bangor. for instance, he stated
there were sixty saloons.
County Natural Unit.
81 do not believe said Mr.. Foulke
lin laws that can not be enforced. The
unit of enforcement is naturally the
county. The county was a unit in
Maine and the county in Indiana will
be the unit. It is county question
the county grand jury will be called
upon to indict for violations, the petit
/ jurors from the county will be called
upon for convictions and the county
prosecutor to push the prosecution oil
violations. The county is the Logical
unit and l consider that the law now
on the statute books meets the require
ment'
| On the national ticket the speaker
declared the question was one of men
Bryan, labeled the "epitomy of aban
doned policies,' had no promise tt
make that was backed by record o.
any good thing done.
Bryan has also declared said Mr.
Foulke, that the Democratic platform
is bound by what is omitted as well a.
by what it contains. Bryan wrote tn,
platform. and Bryan omitted the FIRE,
silver doctrine. He does not take i
back, but admits that he should be pre-
vented from carrying it out One quail