Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The second crowning of William I is scheduled to take place at the national capital next Monday. Isn’t it somewhat curious that Senator Chandler was never anxious about the contributions of big corporations to political campaign lands until tie had been defeated? Can it be that these contributions were always on bis side before? The sugar and steel trusts are now fairly at war over the Russian question. The sugar trust, which stands closest to the administration, has won the first round but the steel trust, which was caught napping, is now hard after it, and ructions are probable. Somebody whose words carry weight alike with church people and gentiles ought to investigate the Chinese missionary scandal. If Christian Missionaries have turned into despoilers, as is asserted on good authority, we ought to know it; if they have not, their skirts ought to be definitely cleared of the charges.

George M. Ray of the Shelbyville Democrat has been tried and found guilty of conspiring to defraud the county in printing contracts. Such an action in a republican county, republicans would groan, put their noses together, solemnly shake their heads and let the matter drop—New Castle Democrat. In this connection The Democrat desires to Bay that it has undisputable evidences in its possession against the Official Apologist editor, but do you suppose.for a moment that a court and jury could be secured in Jasper county that would convict? Not on your life. Now the above statement regarding the Apologist man is libellous, if not true, and we would be much pleased to have him begin action against us for libel, in the event of which a change of venue from Jasper county might result in failure to securing a republican jury and court.

Marshall pays his respects to the prominent editors and printers who testified to the correctness of The Democrat’s measurement of the health rules in controversy in a scurrilous half-column article. In reply we will simply say that if the testimony of the Jim-Crow printers of the defense was true, the Apologist man and the CowPuncher never filed an honest claim for public printing in their lives, aud they well know this statement to be correct. The man who edits the Apologist is not fit to wipe the feet of any of the state’s witnesses, and he could not find a reputable editor in Indiana who would swear materially different from those summoned by the state. For this reason he goes to the out-of-the-way villages of Lowell and Brookston and gets Messrs. O’Ragon and O’Haley, neither of whom, as the record will show, could tell nonpareil type from agate, and wouldn’t know how to measure a table-work legal i f they got one. The Cow-puncher was also unable to tell the difference until he was given a measuring rule and measured several lines together. A nice lot of “blacksmiths” these to prove anything pertaining to printing by.