Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 September 1904 — STONE OPPOSES CARNIVAL. [ARTICLE]

STONE OPPOSES CARNIVAL.

Opening of Purdue University nay Be Delayed If Carnival Is (liven. Lafayette, Ind., August 30. — President Stone, of Purdue University, is leading the fight against the proposed carnival at this city the first week in October. The opening of the Purdue University will be postponed until the carnival is over, he asserts, if the members of the faculty are notified that the carnival will be given. This will mean a delay of a mouth in the opening of school, and would not only work to the disadvantage of the university, but would also necessitate the abolishment of the winter and spring vacations and the Christmas holidays. Conservative merchants and business men of the city are opposing the carnival, and assert that the city should not be plagued with another street fair this year. There has already been one. There were two last year, and the proposed carnival this year is being arranged by saloon men, gamblers* hotel and restaurant men, and those whom it will directly benefit. The conservative merchant is opposed to the carnival, and a thorough canvass of the business portion of the city has revealed the fact that only one out of every ten is in favor of the carnival, and then only upon condition that it be confined to some private property, and not in the public streets. The rest are opposed to the proposition because it hurts their business and corrupts the morals of city. Merchants are circulating a palmer, which is signed by conservatives, pledging themselves to abstain from supporting the carnival and promising to fight it in the courts, if necessary. An injunction, restraining the promoters from using the streets, will be filed and they will find every barrier thrown in their way. With the opening of Purdue, September 7, President Stone does not have time to conduct much of the fight against the carnival, but he has expressed the views of the faculty, and promises that if he is assured that the carnival is given, he will close the school. He asserts that the carnival is damaging to the work of the institution and detrimental to the morals of the student.