Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1910 — REGARDING THE POLITICS OF KANKAKEE VALLEY REVIEW. [ARTICLE]

REGARDING THE POLITICS OF KANKAKEE VALLEY REVIEW.

The. Republican Has Nothing To Do With the Decision of Its Publisher to Rnn a Democratic Paper. The Republican office by contract prints the Kankakee Valley Review, which has editions for both Wheatfleld, Jasper county, and Roselawn, Newton county. The editor of these papers is John Bowie. He has been a resident of Wheatfleld for several years and of Roselawn and Thayer for several years prior to the time he moved to Wheatfield. Mr. Bowie is a democrat, and was a delegate from Jasper county to the last democratic state convention when he helped nominate Thos. R. Marshall for governor. He is a Mason of high standing and a man of fine citizenship, with a record of honest business behind him that few men in Jasper county can equal. He is energetic, punctilious and gives the most precise attention to every detail of his business. He recently announced that he had decided to make his paper a democratic paper, stating that its pub-

lisher was a democrat and that he wanted to be in a position to give expression- to his political ideas. The declaration has proven very annoying to the Jasper County Democrat, which paper takes much space to berate the fact of a rival in the ranks. The Democrat is not looking for converts that might possibly secure any part of the legal printing. Mr. Bowie, as before stated, has his paper printed by contract,at this office. He has been able to get his work done in that manner at a less cost and with superior work than he could expect to with an office of his own quite modernly equipped. That is business. It may be recalled ■ « that for some time after the Jasper County Democrat was started and after it was owned by the present publisher it was printed by contract at the Journal office, on a-press owned and operated in a republican office. It objects, however, to. Mr. Bowie doing the same thing. The circulation of the Kankakee Valley Review is especially ' large in the Kankakee Valley, and from the strict sense of publicity, which is the aim in legal publications, there can be no doubt but that no other paper published could come nearer filling the requirements in. Wheatfleld, Kankakee, Keener and Walker townships, while the general circulation of the paper in the county is probably greater than was that of the Democrat in its earlier days much of the county legal printing found its way into that paper. Mr. Bowie’s action is entirely independent, however, and whatever policy he advocates or whatever he does in a t business way hag neither inspiration nor encouragement in this office. His paper and such work as he brings to this office are printed on contract just as we print a set of sale bills for a farmer without asking his politics, and that sale bill shall contain juSt what the farmer wants on it, just as Mr. Bowie’s paper shall contain just what he wants in it.