Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1911 — BABCOCK QUITS GROUCHING; BECOMES A PROGRESSIVE. [ARTICLE]

BABCOCK QUITS GROUCHING; BECOMES A PROGRESSIVE.

/ ' Publisher-of Local Newspaper Turns Over New Leaf and Will Hereafter Cease Barking. / The well known publisher of the Democrat is reported to have determined upon a new course for the future and to have decided to stop hammering everything and everybody and become a booster. Whoopla! Whoopi a! Speaking of things that have been done to “dear old Rensselaer,” oan anyone imagine a worse misfortune than to have a newspaper within a "town whose editor’s chief delight is making the people believe that a boogey man is in the woodpile? Dear old Rensselaer has had its bumps but nothing worse than harboring a newspaper with a “grouch.” In spite of this the dear old town has gone ahead and done things Itself even if no one ever “did” anything for it. But now that the editor is to become a booster—a rsal, live booster, we expect to see things really hum. Whoopla again and once more!