Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1899 — The Gospel Truth, This. [ARTICLE]

The Gospel Truth, This.

White County Democrat: Over in Jasper county they have some queer methods of doing business. For instance, the law requiring the publication of township estimates and proposed tax levies, says that they shall be published in the two leading papers representing the two political parties casting the highest number of votes at the last precedidg general election; also in a paper published in the township, if there be one. Over in Rensselaer they have four weekly papers, two republican and two democratic. The law says the publications shall be made in the leading paper of each party, but notwithstanding this the publications were scattered among the four. This does not comply with the law at all, but then Jasper county has been under republican control so long that non-compliance with law cuts no ice.