South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-11-01
NOVEMBER 1, 1910.
LAPORTE REVIVES OLD ELECTION
METHODS ON OILY SCALE
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cency are said to have abated. In one plant,
something similar to the Mshawaka under
taking was resorted to at the time of Gov.
Whitman's visit South Bend. but half
surmse that the old republican wheeIhorse
that did that job has had new bunch.
We have the promise from these two man.
ufacturers, or what results in the same. that
nothing viii be done in their plants to put
South Bend in the same category with TerTe
Haute in the matter OF election frauds, and
especially il IL should be so listed, that they
viii not permit their plants TO go with il into
the same class with Terre Hautes saloons and
gambling heIIs.
These promises carried out. and IL is as
much as is necessary to give Woodrow Wilson
and the democratic ticket goOdly majority I'm
ST. Joseph county next Tuesday. But that is
not the point. What is wanted Is a square,
free and honest vote The democratic party
has always been the party of the people. when
workingmen have been left, without coercion,
insinuatiOn, threats or abuse. to vote their
conscience. To attempt 10 deprive them OF
that privilege, is a confession of wrong prin-
ciples- In the name of right and honesty. and
good government the party that undertakes
OF corporations that undertake IL should be
made to feel the force of their folly.
We must have honest government at the bal
lot box or we cannot expect it anywhere up
the line. The party. candidate, or individual
that viii resort to election frauds, will resort
to fraud in public office. Let us be honest
about il. The government by the consent
OF the governed" TO which the declaration OF
Independence refers, means a government by
intelligent, free, untrammeIed consent, and not
a consent obtained by virtual force. All that
America needs to put stop to these unsavory
election conditions, is that prosecuting officers
quit bIufing. and go to the mat after election
the same they talk about il before
Whatever may be the conditions in Laporte,
or elsewhere with reference to county officials,
we think no one doubts but that Dist. Atty.
L. Ert slack means business same as Dist.
Atty. Frank Daley, his predecessor meant
business in the Terre Haute cases. And Dist
Atty. Slack has the special assistance of Mr..
Daley, by appointment of the department of
justice at Washington, for the purpose of
teaching lessons OF decorum i'm the present
campaign Indiana is fortunate just now. in
having in the United States district attorneys
Office man who Is not afraid of men whose
consciences circumscribed by the dollar
mark.
We doubt very much IL these Laporte men
should DC permitted TO escape responsibility
fer what plainly tends TO cOerce. intimidate.
or influence their employees, merely because
they say that such not their purpose.
Neither docs IL excuse them that some other
manufacturer, somewhere else. did likewise
that they particularly anxious to see
this that man elected.
shame that America should have TO contend
with each recurring election, with this brand
of political activity. To scare another man.
by any undue influence, exercised because you
have him I'm your power, into voting a. you
would have MIN vote, contrary his own
sense, is "a bad going TO the polls yourself
and playing the role OF a repeater