Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — A Democratic County, Too! [ARTICLE]

A Democratic County, Too!

T. A. Crose or Brookston, who is visiting down in Brown county, writes the Brookston Gazette of that county: We find the people here very clever, always ready to take a stranger under their roof and treat him with the greatest hospitality. While their houses are not generally so large as those in White and northern counties, their accommodations are abundTffiUpdJhpij hearts large W d sessed of the rZTMtiTttg i "po‘wefs*"oT Ichabod Crane’s eating apparatus. The county is democratic in politics and is almost out of debt, without a saloon in its limits and no use fora jail. As I observed upon my visit to the county bastile, the jail doors stand ajar and upon inquiry I learn that there has not been a lawbreaker behind the gates for many months and that there are but few inmates in the poor house. In talking to an attorney he remarked that there would not be a criminal case come for trial in the next term of court and if he did not have considerable practice in other counties he could not make a living. A hotel keeper, whom I afterward learned had at one time been a saloon keeper, expressed himself quite vehemently to me in reference to the saloon matter. He said he would not have another saloon in Brown county if he could permit it. Now he is n6t bothered with having to I take care of the intoxicated who come to a hotel to finish up a debauch, because it is a public place.