Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1903 — AS TO THE CARNIVAL. [ARTICLE]

AS TO THE CARNIVAL.

The city council at the behest of the carnival promoters held a special meeting Wednesday night and took snap judgment on the opposition to the streets being turned over for carpival purposes, by granting a verbal request made by tbepromoters, but one councilman, Henry Wood, voting against the proposition. Members of the ministerial association learned about 4 p. m., that such a meeting ■would be held and got up a protest signed by a number of the foremost business men and taxpayers in the city against the measure, and also entered a vigorous verbal protest against it, besides having previously directed a letter to the K. of P. lodge, protesting against the holding of the same, which letter was turned down, we are informed. The council, however, again turned them down. The usual empty protestations that “all gambling and immoral features would be eliminated” were made. The matter will probably come up at the next council meeting in the shape of an ordinance abrogating the statutes of Indiana and granting free lights, wiring, water, police, etc., and permitting everything to be run wide open during the revel the crime. Of course all this is illegal, and the streets cannot lawfully be blockaded, but unless the opposition organize and get out an injunction, which may be done, it is said, it is likely that Rensselaer will have a bacchanal revel that will make the one held last year look like thirty cents. It is understood that the revel will be held either the last week in August or early in September, depending on just when the “attractions” can be secured.