Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1916 — NO POLITICS IS BEING PLAYED [ARTICLE]

NO POLITICS IS BEING PLAYED

Jasper County Democrat Asks If Politics Is Being Played by Councilmen in Street Numbering. The last issue of the Jasper County Democrat, under the heading of “Is Politics Being Played,” asks if the city councilmen are playing politics in regard to the street signs, w£ich are required before free mail delivery can be obtained for the city. The Democrat states that it is in-

timated that the council is tielaying matters for political reasons; that it does not want to give the present administration credit for establishing free mail delivery in Rensselaer and is therefore dilly-dallying along about the street signs so that free mail delivery cannot possibly be in- ' stalled before the November election. While the council may be a little slow in taking action in this matter, I they have been giving much time and consideration to this matter, in order

that the best possible signs may be obtained at the lowest possible cost. A councilman stated to the Republican that action in this matter would be taken in the very near future, and that two men were to be sent the latter part of this week or the first of next to Monticello to investigate the methods that has been, pursued in that city, and as soon as this investigation was made that a report would be made and action taken at once, and also stated that the Democrat’s intimation that politics was being played was unfounded, and that their deliberation in this matter is not for the puipose of not giving the present administration the credit. Wonder if the Democrat figures that the next administration will be a republican one? If not, we do not see how the council could put this matter o fffor four more years, which they would have to do if the democrats retain control after the November election in order to rob the demcratic administration of the credit.