Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — “FOR GIVING WIDEST PUBLICITY.” [ARTICLE]

“FOR GIVING WIDEST PUBLICITY.”

Such Is Intent of Law Requiring Publlcatione In the Two Lending Party Papera, Says Judge Nye. Medaryville Advertiser: In the suit of the Winamac Republican vs. Auditor E. S. Rees, tried before Judge Nye last Saturday, the Republican was victorious, and all legal matters will hereafter be published in the Winamac Republican and not in the Monterey Sun. The court, in giving its decision, among other things says: “There is no politics in thia. The statute was not enacted for the purpose of distributing patronage equally between the two party papers. The statute contemplates giving the notices the widest publicity possible, so that the public may read them, and it is assumed that the widest publicity will be given when published in the two leading party papers. It is not incumbent on a taxpayer to take every paper published in every corner of the county to see the fiublished county notices. The aw providee that he shall find them in the two leading party papers of the county, and so he has a right under the law to find them there. The auditor interferes with this right when be fails to so publish them. If be does not conform with the law, he may be restrained by any taxpayer in the county, and compelled to observe and follow the law.”