Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1911 — An Excellent Officer Becomes A Private Citizen of Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

An Excellent Officer Becomes A Private Citizen of Rensselaer.

Louis P. Shirer became a private citizen when he retired from the county sheriff’s office Saturday evening. Jasper county has had many good men in office and usually they have been elected to second terms, but the voters took 1 It into their hands to defeat Louis Shirer and he was retired at the end of one term. We are convinced that many voted against him who did not know how excellent a man he was. We believe they did not realize that they were voting against one of the cleanest, most straightforward, honorable and upright men that ever held office in Jasper county We believe Louie Shirer was beaten by people who did not know him. A better man never held office in Jasper county and we believe that republicans who voted against Louie Shirer made a big mistake in contributing to his defeat. But it is one of the fortunes of politics and Private Citizen Shirer has the philosophy to make the most of it.