Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1905 — HAY HAVE TO ABDICATE. [ARTICLE]

HAY HAVE TO ABDICATE.

The Democrat is informed on what it considers reliable sources, that John Bowie, of Thayer, Roselawn, Wheatfield and numerous other places, will be compelled to bring his publication, the Kankakee Valley Review (printed in Rensselaer as a re-bash of the Rensselaer Journal) down to one certain county and postoffice, in the matter of mailing privileges. This was the only sensible and legal way to do in the start, but because The Democrat insisted that John should obey the law and not spread himself all over northwestern Indiana with a few dozen copies of bis paper, and incidentally, of course, gobble up all the “legals” that the legitimate newspapers were entitled to, he has felt very much aggrieved at us and has actually cut The Democrat off his exchange list. Yes, sir, actually refuses to let the perfume of the Kankakee valley pervade the atmosphere of our sanctum through the medium of the Review. Perhaps, tbongb, The Democrat has saved a few people from being bamboozled into placing legal advertisements in the said sheet which might have caused them endless worry and expense in the future through such publication not having been made in a legal manner within the meaning of the law. A person who is operating a questionable game or is trying to do an illegal act, always hates the man who brings him up with a short turn, and John’s animosity was expected.