Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The resident taxpayers of Barkley tp., have employed an attorney and will make an effort to defeat the proposed new railroad election in that township. We are told that never in the history of Indiana has another election been petitioned for so soon on th& same identical proposition. The people of Barkley tp., look upon the present movement to force an obnoxious tax,upon that township as an imposition, and they resent it. They reason that this proposition was voted upon only a few weeks ago and the proposition was defeated. No charge of fraud is made by the advocates of the tax in that election. No changes in condition have resulted since that time which would reasonably lead anyone to suppose , that the result could be changed by holding another election, yet petitions for such an election are being circulated and it is understood will be presented to the commissioners ere long. The opponents of the tax think that it is wrong to ask them to lose their time and go tQ the expense of holding another election so soon on a proposition which it was supposed the election of July 17 definitely settled, and wo heartily agree with them in this matter. ■