Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1908 — NO CONFIDENCE WAS VIOLATED [ARTICLE]

NO CONFIDENCE WAS VIOLATED

The Democrat’s information regarding the proposed plans of the Rensselaer Republican syndicate to lease the Monon News and put a man in charge as local editor while doing practically all the mechanical work here, thus giving back to the business patrons of the paper at Monon very little trade for their money, was not told us in confidence, as that truthful (?) sheet alleges. The matter was being discussed publicly in a certain business house in Rensselaer by several parties when The Democrat man happened to be therein. One of the gentlemen discussing the matter was a Mt. Ayr citizen, and It was no secret there any more than it was here. As for business courtesy, why the syndicate organ has so long practiced anything but business courtesy in its many mean, low, contemptible and underhanded attempts to “do” The Democrat that we did not suppose Its editors even knew there was such a thing.