Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1899 — SHARON. [ARTICLE]

SHARON.

—Plenty of rain and mud. —Charles Sigman is a Lafayette visitor this week. —A Monon party was here looking for a farm last Tuesday. —Messrs. Laßue and Huff, of Rensselaer were callers here last Wednesday. —Quite a number of the boys will go to Chicago Sunday on the 75 cent excursion. —Chas. Slaughter, our enterprising blacksmith, has treated his shop to a new coat of paint. —Owing to the condition of the weather there was no preaching at the school house last Sunday. —The free ice cream social given by the Sharon Y. P. S. C. E. was a decided success and a large crowd was present. —Owing to the heavy rains all the low lands are flooded with water. The farmers have been

kept oat of the fields for over a week and prospects now are not at all encouraging. Farmers are getting the blues over the ten days’ rainfall with no show for a let up —As the republicans term the democrats, “anarchists,” and everything else imaginable, it would be well for them to remember that in some cases “mob law” is justifiable, although it is to be avoided in the present day. But when courts fail to punish the guilty, what then are we to look or hope for. —The bridge across the Big Slough A mile east of Sharon, is and has been in a dangerous condition for tfie past two years. Although there have been repeated efforts made to put' it in shape for safe travel, it still remains in the same dangerous position. Not until some one gets killed or crippled or a team gets down wjjl it be looked after. —Now that the “Apologistic editor” has had The Democrat man indicted, wonder what he will do next? The people of Jasper county will not lose any sleep over the outcome, and The Democrat man will continue to expose the rottenness of the ring—backed by the better element of both democrat and republican taxpayers—and the people of Jasper county will not allow him to suffer at the hands of these so-called bosses. —We haven’t heard of its editor (the Journal editor) being arrested for libeling anyone yet.—Sharon Cor. Journal. Perhaps, not. But if our memory serves us correctly he was driven out of town a few years ago in disgrace for fighting the “ring.” The nngsters knew they couldn’t scare The Democrat man in that way, so they resort to other means to get rid of him. It won’t work, though. The Democrat will continue to thrive and its editor will beathorn in the side of all ring-

store and their pet schemes for many years to come. Mark this.