The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-05
HAALYR{SPONS|BLE
FOR THE DEFEAT
OF REPUBL|CAN
Big Stick Welded From the
State House Also RESPONSE
BILE for Set Back of Temper
ance Question.
REPUBLICANS WIN
TWO CONGRESSMEN.
Eleven Members of Congress
sionaI Delegation Will Be
Democratic-Contro of the
Next Legislature.
Ellis SearIs.

indianapolis, Ind, Nov. Sit Is all
well enough of course to go on and tell
how 1t happened after the people have
voted at an election and turned things
upside down and it makes good read
ing. but it does not amount to much,
after all For it is all forgotten before
issues arise and new men spring up TO
take the places of those who pass out
OF sight until little is left what was
here before.
Who thought four years ago that
William Howard Taft would be elected
president in 1908? II any man had
such thought let him hold up his
hand. But it happened and now the
question is who will be the next one.
No one knows. Time alone can tell.
But 1t is interesting after all to think
q little about what has happened.
The election in Indiana resulted just
as was predicted in these dispatches
seveu days ago. There was no deny
ing the signs that were SO apparent.
They showed that Taft would carry
Indiana by a small plurality over Bry-
an. and that Marshall DEM would
win over Watson (RepJ for governor,
though no attempt was made to fore
cast tn size of his plurality. 1t SEEM
ed to be in the air. Everywhere one
went he was met with the statement
that the people did not want Bryan for
president. He was all right as an ora
tor and could work UP his crowd to a
high pitch of frenzied enthusiasm, but
he would not do for president. This
was the feeling everywhere In the state
and there was no mistaking what 1t
meant. The result showed that the
forecast made in these dispatches was
right.
The question as to whether the
Democratic or Republican state tick
cts, outside Of governor. have been
elected, cannot be decided until the
Official count is made over Indiana.
Now what will happen in Indiana
The temperance question has received
a setback that it never should have
suffered and which 1t would not have
suffered but for the big stick that was
so strenuously and mercilessly welded
at the state house. But no one holds
the republican party responsible for
this setback. The republican party had
nothing whatever to do with it The
party was siezed, its hands tied and
then it was forced to swallow the pill
That's the way it was done.
The republican party believes in
a. s<
should not be made a political issue
1t will not be republican political is
sue again. That much is certain. The
members of the republican party will
make their temperance fights and the
struggle for clean government and
high morals will continue as of old
but it will be on the right lines the
next time.
County Reforms Next.
So the temperance question is out OF
the way. There will be something else
to take its place. That something else
will probably be county reform, OF
rather reform in the methods of hand
be the most needed of all the reforms
and since candidates of both parties
for tho legislature were pledged to il
1t Is reasonable to expect that some
thing will be done at the next session
of the general assembly.
There should be uniform system ot
bookkeeping in county offices, Tht
system of auditing accounts should bt
improved. The jury-drawing system
cI1 \
should be placed on straight salarie:
and no fees should be allowed to any
officer. Prisoners in county jails
should be fed at cost and not at enor.
mously profitable prices that countie:
are forced BY the law to pay. AL