Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1917 — He Kept Us Out of Jail. [ARTICLE]

He Kept Us Out of Jail.

In giving a list of the county officers in our Monday issue we omitted the name of Benjamin F. McColly. We have since learned that the said Benjamin F. McColly was, on the 6th day of November, 1916, duly elected sheriff of the County of Jasper. That said Benjamin did nle with the proper office a good and sufficient bond and that he entered upon the duties of his office on the first day oi January, 1917, with the determination of enforcing the laws and order within the realm of Jasper county fora period of two years from that date. We find that said B. Franklin McColly had as his campaign slogan “He Kept Us Out of Jail,” and that said slogan did separate said McColly some four or five hundred votes from his nearest competitor and that had said election been held on the first day of January, 1917, instead of the sixth day..of November, 1917, said McColly would have carried the solid vote of the entire tenth congressional district of the state of Indiana. The Republican regrets sincerely that these facts were not before them (when the said article written and published on the said first day of January, 1917, in the said issue of said paper as referred to above. In view of the fact that it is common report that Mr. McColly had conducted the office of sheriff of Jasper county for a period of two years preceding the date of January 1, 1917, to the entire satisfaction of a population scattered over an area of 540 square miles we are forced to believe that he will continue to still make good and as long as we folk behave ourselves we may be assured that “He kept us out of jail.* 1 iShould the above be indefinite, inaccurate or incomplete we .reserve the right to make any changes affecting the same in the future issues of The Republican.