Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — COUNTY QUESTION NOT IN IT. [ARTICLE]

COUNTY QUESTION NOT IN IT.

There is no paper in Newton county with a better record of loyalty to its home town than the Herald On the county seat question we stand ready to contest every inch of the ground, neither giving nor asking favors of the Kentland people. But in this judicial convention question there is no county seat argument at issue, no advantages to be gained by the selection of a judge at any of the towns contesting for county seat honors. It is a square-toed fight for a fair show against (not the republicans of Jasper county) a ring of Rensselaer politicians who got their noses broke in their efforts to name a senatorial candidate once upon a time and now proposes to do an unfair and contemptible act toward the voters of two counties in order to “even up” with the three or four men who out-generaled them.—Goodland Herald.

The dates for holding the democratic congressional, representative and judicial conventions have not been set as yet. The great steel trust has completed the first year of its existence and a report of its business has been made public. The total net earnings was 1111,967,195. Newton county is peopled with quiet, law-abiding, industrous citizens, and is the only county in Indiana that has no cases pending in either the supreme or appellate courts. And yet the Rensselaer political machine would try to make it appear that Newton county people are the worst set of rascals that ever went unhung.

The friends of Albert Schoonover of Attica, are pushing him for the democratic nomination for Secretary of State. Mr. Schoonover was located at Kentland for awhile and is well and favorably known in Jasper where hie friends stand ready to lend aid to his candidacy when the time comes for holding the state convention.

The other day Senator Pettus arose as if to address his fellow members and a hush of expectancy at once fell upon the chamber. Every eye was upon the venerable statesman, who with great deliberation reached around into the tail pocket of his long frock coat and drew forth a plug of tobacco. Unconscious of the attention he was attracting, he bit off a chew and sat down without Saying a word. Everybody smiled.—Press dispatch. A f?w more of this kind of speech-makings and the present congress will go down in history as the most conservative in a decade.