Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — AT LAST! [ARTICLE]

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The Old Tax-Ferret Injunction Case Is Decided by the Supreme Court Lower Court Reversed. The supreme court on Thursday reversed the lower court on the old moss-covered Fellener & Perkins tax-ferret case from this county, holding that the county commissioners have the right to make contracts with tax ferrets to discover property concealed from taxation and to pay a per cent, of such discoveries to the ferrets This decision, taxpayers of Jasper. comes just on the eve of an election wherein the people of the county are demanding an investigation of the county records and the republican ringsters will attempt to make much capital out of it. Don't be deceived by anything they may say Even were the present board of commissioners to order an investigation is their record such that you ns honest taxpayers who desire an honest, reliable and non-partisan investigation can rely upon anything that is ’done. Besides don’t lose sight of the fact that their investigation by the tax-ferrets was intended for the taxpayer. What we want in this county is an investigation of the county officers.

i the house was being moved. It is also alleged that the excitement incidental to yanking the house across the border into Union tp.. proved almost 100 much for her. ; and for several days her life was despaired of. These charges have i not been denied to our knowledge, and it would seem to us and all fair-minded men that instead of a , “dirty fight” having been made upon Mr. Comer in criticising his official acts, that gentleman himself has indulged in some very “dirty” polities in order to retain an office which the law-making power of Indiana clearly intended no man should hold seven or eight years.