The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1914-09-25

sT7gTa corrupt act on hrs part, and I
owe it to him TO say that / do not be-
lieve that, when he signed this bill
at the time he signed several others,
he recalled that it had previously been
indefinitely postponed by the House.
Senate Bill 423 was introduced in
the Senate by Senator Gavit, a Pro-
gressive, to increase the salary of
the recorder of Lake county, one of
his Republican constituents. The bill
passed the Senate and went to the
House, where it was taken charge of
/ by Representative Van Horne, Re-
publican, of Lake county. One Poland,
Republican county chairman of Lake
county, was lobbyist for this bill.
He is now the deputy recorder of
Lake county, and | have heard the
statement made that he was to re-
ceive for his salary as deputy re-
corder the increase provided for by
this bill.
Senator Gavit says that he had
heard his bill was defeated in the
House, and the first he knew it had
it in the public Acts; yet the bill had
been returned to the Senate and it's
return announced to the Senate. 1t
was enrolled in the Senate after its
return thereto, and afterwards the
president of the Senate announced TO
that body that he had signed it. l
wonder why he did not discover the
bill he was interested in had been re-
turned to the Senate and had been
signed by it's president.
Senator Gavit has been renomi
mated for the Senate, by the Progress
/ sive party. Van Horne has been
nominated by the Republicans to
come back to the House. This bill
was fathered by the former and was
championed in the House by the latter
to help a Republican official and the
Republican county chairman of Lake
county. These are circumstances that
every man must wei& for himself.
Qae tlriag Is cersak,s however, no
y5emaTat was TO 10 .GHnefted by this
legfslatien Another tkhg is also GER
tain: This combination between Re-
publieans and Progressives resulting
in the deception of a Democratic legis-
lature will not succeed in arraying
Democrats against their party. And
| would suggest that, instead of talk
ing SO much about Cook coming off
the Democratic ticket, common de-
Eency requires that Republicans and
ProgressNes should give little pray
erful Consideration as to the advisa-
bihty. 81 removing Van Horne and
Gavit from'the tickets they adorn. >.
| l am not here to assert that Cook
did not make any mistakes, while act
! hra
predecessors, had a perfect record
But l am here to demand that the
scurrilous hounds baying at his heels,
either make a specific charge of his
official croOkedness, or else retire to
their kennels, whipped into silence by
public scorn, if not conscience stricken.
While the Democratic party has
been severely assailed by its opponents
because this bill found it's way into
the Acts of 1913, the people are to be
congratulated that it is clearly un-
constitutional and its intended benefi-
Charles will not in the end be benefited.
The same statement can be made re-
garding Senate Bill 499, known as the
deputy assessors bill and House Bill
$50, known as the assessors bill of
Calumet township of Lake county,
about which we haveheard such wild
defamation.
From the outcry made by Repub-
Hcans and Progressives against the
legislature of 1913, one is almost per-
suaded to believe that that session
was the only one In the history of the
State in which there was anything ir-
regular. But not so. Democrats will
not blush, If they elect to make a
comparison of the records of Demo
cratic legislatures with those of Re-
publicans.
But speaking of legislative methods,
the people have not forgotten that
specimen of Republican methods
which they applied to my friend
Myron King, who was secretary to
Governor Matthews, when they tried
to imprison him in the state house
elevator. Their patriotic" purpose
was to prevent him from reporting
+ the Governors veto of a bill to rob
the executive of his rights and grab
few Republican jobs for janitors
in the state house.
Some Republican Record.
The people of Indiana have not for
/ gotten the history of the famous Bak-
ing Powder Bill, that figured in the
Republican legislature Of 1901. A
local concern in Indianapolis sought
to secure the enactment of law, pro-
hibiting the sale of baking powder
containing certain chemicals, among
which was "bitartrate of potassium ]"
After this bill had passed both
branches of the legislature the words
cor bitratrate of potassium" were
erased therefrom and in its mutilated
condition the bill was approved by a
Republican governor. Serious charges
of the crime Of mutilation were made
by men of high standing in the Re-
publican party against other Republi-
cans of high standing in this State
At that time all the peace and judi
cial officers of Marion County were
Republicans, but no one was prosecu-
ted for this unlawful act More than
that: The Indianapolis News did not
demand the prosecution of the guilty
party, or demand the defeat of the
Republican party because OF the COM
mission of this crime. On the con-
trary il has stood in every campaign
from that time 20 this for the election
of Kn,shlsean Stata fi.Lafc apd De