Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — MARSHALL A REFORMER! [ARTICLE]

MARSHALL A REFORMER!

Ye gods! What a spectacle! G. E. Marshall posing as an advocate of reform in county and townships management! After having stood as apologist for every court house swindle, every county steal, every corrupt bargain, every incompetent, unscrupulous official who has heaped disgrace and dishonor on the county by misrepresenting it in official capacity; Who has stood by time after time and saw county officials cash warrants on Jasper county, well knowing that the salary allowed by law covered all the alleged services for which they demanded additional compensation without so much as a protest; who was in position to know and no doubt did knoiy of the most rascally contracts for the new court house in time to have exposed and defeated their consuraation—one in particular wherein a commissioner is commonly quoted to have said he could have had S3OO to have signed the contract, but Be it said to his credit his name was not secured—and saved the county thousands of dollars. But nary a protest from this great champion of reform! But public sentiment in favor of some kind of “reform” that will reduce expenditures for public purposes has become so strong, aDd so ergent are its demands that these pap-suckers, these barnacles on the body politic, shall be removed or at least choked off —that county and township officers shall not receive more than the law allows them from the public treasury—that even Marshall is compelled to make the feint of falling into line and raising his voice for reform. Mr. Marshall may rest asured that reform in the above particulars will come. The straws that will break the camel’s back are being piled on, and when the beast goes down reform will come with a ven-

gence which will be swift, and irresistable. Reformer.