Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1900 — BARE-FACED DECEPTION [ARTICLE]

BARE-FACED DECEPTION

Being Used to Hlflod the People Into Voting the Clifford Railroad Tax. The Gifford letter as published in the Journal and Republican closes as follows: "Should these election* carry I will proceed to surrey the line and put the same under construction nt onee.’* In the original letter the paragraph read like this: "Should these election* carry I wiU proceed to *urrey the line and IF PRACTICABLE, put the same under construction at once." The two very important words set in capitals are left ont entirely from the published letter. Bro. Marshall was very much “astounded” when his attention was called to this pmission, and professed the most dense ignorance of how thoee two words came to be omitted. Some one erased them in the copy. Did the noble and virtuous Marshall do this or did "they simply erase themselves? This is on a Ear with the other false statement y Marshall that the road from “the very first will pay back a good interest on that sum ($31,000 in Marion tp.) every year in taxes alone,* * and the same thing can be said of all the other townships that have elections pending.” Marshall knows this statement to be false and every person who reads it know it. Gilford’s railroad assessment in no township would be equal to the amount of subsidy asked for, and no tax levy in any of these townships is 6 per cent. On the coutrary they are all loss than one percent. To h—with uch damnable methods for deceiving the people and inducing them to vote a Heavy tax upon themselves for a one-horse railroad.