Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1913 — BROTHER CRAMPTON FERNINST COMMISSION [ARTICLE]

BROTHER CRAMPTON FERNINST COMMISSION

Looks With Well-Grounded Suspicion on Anything Proposed by Indianapolis Club. f —' 7- ‘TCarroll County Citizen-Times. At each recurring meeting of the Indiana legislature, the Indianapolis board of trade and commercial club resolve some scheme to “reform” and “improve” management at affairs in the country districts, but which in fact has only for its object the creating a lot of new offices to enable a batch of hangerson to tap the pulblic till. It is not necessary, perhaps to enumerate all of the results of tins board of trade and commercial One will be sufficient: That of the expert accountant, an all-arounck all wool and a yard wide civil reformer who was pitched off a train here last summer, arrested and fined for drunkenness and then commenced overhauling our county officers’ books at $lO per day. * This year an addition has been made to the Rural District Tipping clubs of Indianapolis by the formation of a silk stocking, kid glove, spiketail, hair-parted-in-the-middle combination branded, The Indiana Good Roads Association. Its membership is composed of automobile manufacturers and owners, chauffuers, fast horse breeders and lame duck office seekers out of a job, too proud to beg and too lazy to work. They are asking aid in the passage of a law placing the management of the roads in the hands of a commission, who, judging by the expert reformers resulting from former board of trade and commercial club resolutions, know about as much about roads as a hog does about glory. We are in receipt of a velvetyphrased communication asking our aid in the passage of this sweetly scented rose-colored scheme to place our roads in charge of a state commissioner with assistant in each district and deputy assistants, etc., etc., at so much per, etc. And our answer is, speaking for Carroll county, that we have now 356 miles of first-class stone and gravel roads, twenty-five miles more now under contract, and 108 miles more petitioned for, all paid for or being pair by our taxpayers and any person who would .vote or aid in any way to place these roads under the management of, outsiders, would put himself in the position of a celluloid dog chasing an asbestos cat through hell. Do you catch the idea?