Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1916 — Monon News Announces That It Is Now Republican Paper. [ARTICLE]

Monon News Announces That It Is Now Republican Paper.

The Monon News, whose editors and publishers, W. J. Huff & Sons, are life-long republicans, but which has been conducted as a neutral newspaper, has now announced as a republican paper. This able newspaper and its oopetent publishers and editors, has beooine one of the best papers in this part of the state and while it has maintained actual neutrality in politics in the past it ias generally been regarded as leaning toward the republican party, j Republicans do not like to lean. They like to s tand up- independentl y and so Huff & Sons will quit leaning and help support others who might need a little bracing occasionally. The editors in making the announcement say:

“The News will from now on claim recognition as a republican newspaper. As is well known, the publishers of the News are life-long members of the party and therefore do not surrender any convictions in firing the political status of The papeft “The News will favor clean politics,* at home as well as abroad. It will not claim that all republicans are saints and all on the other side are sinners. That the rank and file of all parties are seeking the truth, we do believe. Offensive personalities and peanut politics will find no place in these columns, and the right of difference in opinion will be sacredly respected. “The News enjoys a place among the best country newspapers of the state and its usefulness in printing the home news will be stimulated by removing it from the neuter gender in politics. “Realizing that the chief aim and purpose of a country newspaper is to give the home news, leaving the forging of political thunderbolts to metropolitan brain experts, the New® will

omit nothing, in. the effort to print everything of interest to our readers in the way of local happenings. To this end we continue to invite the cooperation of all in the collection of such facts. While the politics of the News will be well defined it -will in no way interfere with the general policy of the paper to successfully cover the field of its fi&nstituency.