The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922, 1912-03-14
DEMOCRATIC
DELEGATES
GET LETTERS
SINGING INDICTMENT OF THE
TAGGART MACHINE MADE
BY MR.. NAMES OF BOONE,
RALSToN'S HOME.
THE PLAIN FACTS ARE TOLD
Writer Does Not Mince Words Nor
Handle Them With Gloves On
Democrats Should Know
the Facts.
THE PLAIN FACTS ARE TOLD

as a delegate to represent the vot.
ers of the Democratic party in In.
diana at the coming state conven.
ton. In your hands has been plac.
ed the power to name the candidate
of the party for governor. Upon
you devolves duty, not only to the
rank and file of the Democratic
party who will do the voting, but to
all the people of Indiana, in select
ing a candidate for governor who
will be honest enough and bic
enough to serve all of the people OF
the state without fear or favor in
the event he is elected to that exalt-
ed Office.
This is presidential year. The
Democratic party has never elected
a president, since Indiana was ad-
mitted into the Union, without the
electoral vote of our state. Indi-
ana is now, and has always been, a
doubtful state. If the party is
to elect its candidate for governor
and secure the electoral vote of the
state for the Democratic nominee
for president, the candidate you will
name for governor must be in favor
with the rank and file of his own
party, and be strong enough to Sc
cure at least a majority of the
votes of the independent voters of
the state. The Republicans of In
diana will not elect the Democratic
candidate for governor.
Failure on your part to name such
a candidate for governor will spell
defeat for the state and national
tickets this fall, when the chances
for Democratic success in the state
and nation are the brightest they
have been in twenty years. The de-
served success or defeat of the
Democratic party in Indiana this
fall will depend entirely upon whom
you nominate for governor. and
you will be held responsible for the
result by the Democratic voters of
the state.
I You cannot afford to cast your
vote IN the coming state convention
for a candidate for the nomination
for governor who is the acknowledge
ed creature OF corrupt party ma
chine and whose only claim to
recognition lies in the fact that he
has, for twenty years, served that
machine instead of serving his party.
You cannot afford to foist upon the
party a candidate for governor who
lacks the stamina to stand for a
Democratic principle and the cour-
age to express an individual opinion
You cannot afford to nominate a
man for governor who has been
accused of secretly aiding in the
defeat of the candidates of the
Democratic party in his own county.
and who, if elected governor, would
be as putty in the hands of his
creator and sponsor, Tom Taggart.
that illegltimate leader of the Demo-
cratic party in Indiana.
You remember that In 1904 TAG
CART delivered the vote of Indiana
IN the st. Louis convention to Wall
street and aided In the nomination
OF Alton B. Parker. His candidate
for the Democratic nomination for
governor of Indiana in 1908 and
1872, who was delegate to that
convention, cast his vote as his boss
directed.
The Parker campaign began in a
fiasco and ended in farce. Fortv
thousand Indiana Democrats re-
manned away from the polls at the
election in 1904, and Parker failed
to carry the state by about 100000
votes. In that year, on account of
the efforts of a corrupt party ma
chine in both the state and nation,
the Democratic party passed through
the valley of the shadow of death
and fingered in the shades of a
Gethsemane.
You remember the methods en-
ployed by the corrupt Taggart ma
chine In the Democratic state con-
vention in 1904. You have not for
gotten that Taggart IS state COM
mittee that year issued credentials
to contesting Parker delegates.
which admitted them to the district
caucuses on he eve of the convention
before committee on credentials
had been elected by the district
caucuses to pass, upon the right of
the. contesting Parker delegates TO
vote in those caucuses for delegates
to the national convention. In this
manner the caucuses were packed