Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — Admits “The Democrat” la Doing Good. [ARTICLE]

Admits “The Democrat” la Doing Good.

Ed. Democrat:—There is not one man in a hundred but what will say we should have at least two political parties, and yet the dominant party in this county has n ade every possible effort to stamp out all opposition. In its effort to hold undisturbed control, the republican machine, in this county, through its press, has kept from the j eople every act of maladministration it could possibly hide. Opposition papers have been so persecuted and belittled by the ruling power that their influence has been of little or no avail in stopping the extravagant practices that have been so common in our county management the last eight years. High taxes have at last opened the eyes of many republicans, so we find that there is a rapidly growing belief that things have been entirely too one-sided in this county for the public good. We are beginning to think that even republicans need watching, consequently we are becoming a little more liberally inclined to a live democratic

paper. Since The Democrat “came to town” we have learned more of our county management than we ever knew before. While many of us may not endorse The Democrat’s tariff and money views, yet when it exposes such things as the Keener tp., gravel road matter, the $4,000.00 “temporary loan,” the stationery frauds, expense of the commissioners’ court, the Jasper County Telephone tax-dodgers, etc., etc., we are compelled to say the papar is doing good and we want it to stay and grow. Two Krties, represented each by at ist one widely circulated county paper, is just what Jasper county must have.

INDEPENDENT VOTER.