Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 April 1913 — The Democrat is Fifteen Tears Old and a Martyr [ARTICLE]

The Democrat is Fifteen Tears Old and a Martyr

.< The Jasper County Democrat is fifteen years old and for the fifteenth consecutive year the editor tells of the w-onderful things he and his paper has accomplished and of the terrible assaults that have been made upon it by its enemies and how the dreadfully persecuted editor has surmounted all his difficulties and is making money hand over fist. His wails sound very much like that of the tramp, who at 45 years of age, always asked alms with the argument that he was an orphan. The Democrat closes its self-praise article with a slam at a certain “prominent” sore-head “democrat,” but so far he has failed to let people know whom he means. If he was to indulge in an investigation he would probably find that there are a good many democrats in Jasper county who have not been deceived for fifteen years by the claims of the Democrat editor to be the taxpayers’ friend and who know him so thoroughly that they are willing to credit him up to his own claims. That the guess the editor made as to the identity of the promnient democrat who handed him the ringer through The Republican was far from correct is quite certain and our prid&bloated brother is requested to name this man he terms a “sore-head” democrat. _• . 2; The Republican has always believed that a martyr was a person that performed an act at a sacrifice and bore their suffering in silence, but Brother Babcock shouts his martyrdom from the