Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 258, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1918 — DEMOCRATS SPRING ELEVENTH HOUR GHOST [ARTICLE]

DEMOCRATS SPRING ELEVENTH HOUR GHOST

In its issue of today the Jasper County Democrat gives much prominence in large type on the front page, to a supposed ghost in Union township , Trustee George H. Hammerton is charged with illegally expending money. Relative to the merits of the case we are not in a position to say until the facts are brought out, when «in justice to all concerned we will be glad to give the facts publicity. The facts far developed are not as stated in the Democrat that the investigation .was started by Republicans, but that an affidavit was secured from one Zack Gaesey by Frank Welsh, Democratic chairman, and his secretary, Edward Honan.