Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1899 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

years, has made no accounting and suit was brought to compel him but did not do so and was fii&d for contempt. He was cited to present the report Saturday and several attorneys for interested parties were on haffd, but it was then learned Eagleton had gone to tiie Pacific coast. An Indianapolis dispatch states that the county and township officers have determined upon carrying an appeal to tifo Supreme Court testing the constitutionality of the new laws providing for titer creation of County Councils and Township Advisory Boards. The suit will be brought under the direction of the County Officers’ Association. The plan as now proposed is for the Board of Commissioners in some county to be selected to refuse to recognize the Council appointed for that county, and thereby compel the authorities to proceed against the Commissioners. In like manner it is proposed to raise the question of the validity of the township advisory board act by having some Township Trustee decline to recognize the board appointed for his township. In another column will be found the appointments made by Judge Thompson on the Township Advisory and County Council boards. The appointment we believe to be good [ones*in general, and will give quite universal satisfaction. All members appointed must serve until the next boards are elected, or they may resign at the regular meetings of the boards, as provided in the reform measures. If an honest effort is made by all parties concerned to comply the provisions and intent of these new reform measures, The Democrat looks for much good to result therefrom. While these laws are generally considered republican measures, by reason of having been passed by a republican legislature, and the republicans will claim the credit for whatever beneficial results that may follow, it was only by the help of democratic legislators that the laws were placed on the statutes. We believe we are but voicing the sentiment of the democracy of Jasper county and every democratic member of the council boards when we say that they are for true reform and will use their best endeavors to carry out the spirit as well as the letter of the law in these cases, and if this is not done the responsibility will alone rest on the republicans.

No doubt many people have been shocked at the naughty things the big corporation newspapers and the subsidized press of the country generally have been saying about “trusts” of late, induced to do so by the formation of a paper trusts A contemporary well says: “That it cannot have other than a pleasing effect upon a person who has been compelled to stand with his toes under a weight and see another fellow laughing at him to see the tables turned and have it come his turn to laugh. This is the condition of the people now, who have been feeling the effects of the numerous trusts, that have been in existence for tfie past few years when they hear the howl that is going up from the newspapers that have heretofore ridiculed every one who was against the trusts and corporations. These papers have called them anarchists, cranks, hayseeds, and every other name that could be used as a sign of contempt. Now when the white paper upon which these brilliant effusions and witticisms are imprinted has gone in for the attention of these ‘trust-y’ fellows ‘you ought to hear them holler.’ Its another case of the fellow who forsook his friends for the gold ot the enemy, and after he was of no more use got kicked out in the 2sJr‘ The trust has grown so big that it does not need the assiitanceofthe press any more, , and has now turned on the press itself for an additional tribute.” r