Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — The Indianapolis city election occurs next Tuesday. [ARTICLE]

The Indianapolis city election occurs next Tuesday.

The commissioners of Starke county will let the contract for the construction of 12 miles of new stone roads next Monday. All the counties around are getting ahead of Jasper in the good roads movement. The trust spirit is still unchecked. It continues to ride roughshod through the avenues of business, crushing all opposition. Next on the programe is a patentleather combination, which proposes to have a capital of nearly $100,000,000. By the time it has become thoroughly organized, Mr. Morgan may be expected to step forward and have a foot in it. When we see Newton county building fine stone roads in township after township at an average cost of only about $1,500 per mile and remember that the 12 miles of poorly constructed gravel road in Keener tp., Jasper county cost $32,000, we wonder what, under the present officials, a good stone road would cost in the bailiwick of Halleck, Dowell, Waymire et al? Just now, when a few idiotic republican editors are wauting to hang all democrats because President McKinley was murdered by an anarchist, and to these narrowbrained idiots all democrats must be anarchists, we would remind them that anarchists have no political affiliation with any party and that anarchist, almost without exception are foreigners with unpronouncable names; also, that these same anarchistic foreigners were brought here by the big trusts who own the republican party body and soul, to take the place of honest, law-abiding American workmen who refused to work for the pittance offered them by the trusts or become the slaves of corporate greed This, is a fact no honest man can deny.