Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1915 — Still Trying to Get Out. [ARTICLE]

Still Trying to Get Out.

Strong representations are being made to the department of justice in support of clemency for two of the convicted Terre Haute men. The two men whose friends are making a special appeal in their behalf are John Masselink, city sealer of weights and measures, and Maurice Walsh, county sealer. In behalf of Masselink it is said that he does not belong to the gang of thugs that had terrorized Terer Haute and it is represented that Walsh did not enter into any of the crooked work of the gang and that he was simply drafted by Roberts to fill the place of the treasurer of the democratic committee, who realized that they needed a respectable man in that position. The federal board of control met at Leavenworth Wednesday.

The current issue of The Democrat looks like an anti-progress shrfet and we believe it should be adopted as the official mouthpiece for the kickers of the world. It resembles a newspaper about as much as its disgruntled editor resembles a postmaster, and that’s