Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1915 — Not Many Wuerthners Over in White County. [ARTICLE]

Not Many Wuerthners Over in White County.

Three townships in White county voted in favor of the subsidy for the Lafayette & Northwestern railroad Tuesday. The progressive spirit won out and the citizens who look ahead and want to contribute to the development of their country joined hands with the same classes in Newton county and the subsidy proposition went through with substantial majorities. Probably there were not many men of the Erhart Wuerthner type of retrogressives over there or perhaps the people in White county are as smart as Erhart thinks himself to be or perhaps they are not controlled by prejudices or influenced by sour grape publications, but whatever the reason may have been they have shown that they want a railroad and realize that by securing one they will be given advantages that will be worth a lot of money, that* the tax for the railroads will make their marketing easier, their lands more valuable, their opportunities increased and will eventually pay back in taxes all that the subsidy has amounted to. The advantages seen by the people of White and Newton counties are the same that are offered in Newton township and we feel certain that the good people of that township will neither backslide nor fail to do the progressive thing, all the silly objections of a knocking editor and his new assistant to (the contrary notwithstanding. Erhart is probably that class of tall grass citizen who don’t want accommodations but who wants

to stall off improvements and settle down in overalls the balance of his life. So far as we are concerned or any other person we have heard express themselves it don’t make much difference how far in the interior Erhart goes or whether he ever gets back into civilization. He wouildn’t want a railroad probably if he lived m central Africa. From as far 'back as the memory of any citizen runs he never came to town unless it was to make a “holler” about something and no one recalls that any of his protests ever Won out or had the respect of any of (his progressive neighbors in Newton to'vnship. The Republican does not aim as a general proposition to deride any individual, but since Erhart has devoted a few columns to us we feel that it is nothing more than right to give him and those who might be influenced by him a sort of reflection of his personality. After getting a square view of him we feel that they will make (the subsidy almost unanimous when it comes up in Newton township the 26th of this month.