The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-04-02
Slap at Democratic LAWYERS of
Plymouth will Prove the
Greatest Boomerang to
Democratic Party ever
Launched in Mar
shall County.

Leading Democrats of Mar
shall county have their war paint
on. They say the last Legisiat-
ure OF Indiana, by means of a
powerful and influential lobby liz
the interest of the office holding
class, passed the salary grabbing
act OF n arch s, 1907, increasing
the salaries of the circuit and SUI
perior judges of Indiana from
$4,000 to $500 a year, and it is
only natural that the judges in
office who desire a denomination
and reelection should favor any
method of snap convention that
will give them a positive advant-
age over other candidates.
Everybody knows that it takes
considerable money to pay legiti-
mate compaign expenses, and
lots OF time and work, to proper
ly present ones case at a pri-
mary convention in a judicial dis
trict composed of two counties.
The average lawyer has always
more or less business on his
hands that must be attended to
before he can get the time to at
tend to political affairs, and the
best of them can not afford to
drop their business to give at
tention to snap conventions and
risk their time and money against
a candidate who is already in
trenched in office and who has
the power and patronage OF the
office to back him in his candi-
dacy.
No man can so we'll afford to
stand for office and to endeavor
to perpetuateShimself in the office
of judge as the man who is al
ready in the place and who could
we'll afford to use the extra $1,000
a year that the last Legislature
kindly gave him for nothing at
the expense of the tax payers of
Indiana, to secure renomina-
ton.
The truth of this proposition
and the actual working OF such a
condition is we'll illustrated in the,
situation right here in this jul
dicial district.
Democrats say that the Clay
w. Metsker-John r, Jones-L. G.
Harley combination and political
ring has succeeded in trampling
upon and overthrowing the Dem
ocratic precedents and usages of
the past thirty-six years, and in
substituting primary snap con-
vention for the old time Demo-
cratic delegate convention, and
since these political night ravens
of politics have betrayed the
Democracy of Marshall county
into the hands OF Fulton county's
manipulators, and since the
Chairman of the Democratic CEN
trail committee of Marshall coun-
ty has slapped the face of
every Democratic lawyer in Ply
mouth, with dirty political dish
rag, it is more than probable that
no self-respecting lawyer of Mar
shall county will enter the race
for the judicial nomination, or
even countenance the "rump"
convention that is called in the
interest of a single candidate.
Judge Bernetha may be rcnom-
mated by the political treachery
of Clay w. Metsker and his ilk,
but that does not mean an cleo
ton by a long shot
There is another day coming
next November when all of the
people of Marshall county will be
consulted, and the deep seated
conviction of many of the Demo
Gratis of Marshall county hat this
county ought to have the judge
ship this time. and that no man
ought to be continued N office
more than from four to six years,
may find expression in the cleo
ton of our fellow townsman,
William B. Hess.
TIL. honest Democrats of Mar
shall county have permitted
themselves to be fooled again by
the shallow editor of the Ply
mouth Democrat.
To talk about Clay w. Nets
ker doing anything for the pubic
good. or from motives of high
minded citizenship, is such hypo-
critical cant and blasphemy of
truth as would shame the devil
and fill the internal regions with
derisive laughter
The snap judicial primary con-
vention was evidently planned to
fool the Democratic masses and
TO secure the nomination of
particular candidate from Fulton
county. The whole matter was
kept a profound secret until it
gave other candidates but about
two weeks to consider the mat
ter. and any fool knows that a
two weeks campaign is worse
than useless against a six years
campaign.
Why. Mr.. Bryan himself, is
compelled to use all of his time,
from one years end to another,
to keep the manipulators in his
party from wrestling the leader
s,io from him.
If the peerless leader of Dem
ocracy has to give all his time to
honest Democratic