Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1908 — A FEW PERTINENT QUESTIONS. [ARTICLE]

A FEW PERTINENT QUESTIONS.

? John Tharp, the Remington delegate who exercised both moral and legal rights, and also showed mighty good judgment, in voting against Abe Halleck for state senator at the republican senatorial convention at Monticello recently, asks The Democrat to give him space to ask the machine bunch here the following questions: “Did not Levi Hawkins, Charles Bonner and myself have a legal right to cast our votes for Wolcott four years ago? And had I not the legal right to vote against Halleck at Monticello? and were we all d fools, or just myself? “Why did not the Rensselaer ‘push’ vote for Joe Hammond four years ago? and why did they turn down Fred Griffin two years ago? What was the matter with their county pride then?”