Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1908 — A PITIFUL CASE [ARTICLE]

A PITIFUL CASE

The editors of the several other papers in Benton county have frequently stated that Uncle John Carr of the Fowler Leader whs becoming ‘ daffy - ' of late years; that old age and the infirmities consequent thereto were affecting his mind, and that his once strong intellect was becoming clouded. We have paid little attention to this, thinking it was a little editorial jealousy, but of late we have been forced to admit that John’s intellect is failing, and failing fast. too. Perhaps the inheritance of a hundred thousand dollar legacy a few yearg ago and the worry of looking after a fortune of this magnitude—for an editor, a, class of people whose wealth seldom reaches more than two ciphers —has been too much of a task for him, and he is breaking down under the strain. Why, John is proclaiming that Jim Watson—the man of whom Governor Hanly is alleged to have said, “All the brewers of Indiana'and the saloon-keepers of Indianapolis are working tooth and rail to secure his nomination for governor,” the man whom every republican boozer and gambler in Indiana worked to have nominated over his opponents—John is saying that Jim is an angel in disguise and means every word he says in his denunciation of these gamblers and sports to whom he owes his nomination Bro. Carr even echoes the absurd statement of the Anti-Saloon. League—that under county local option if the county “dry” it must be diV, but if it votes “wet” the result doesn’t mean anything, and the temperance people can turn about next day and remonstrate it dry by wards and townships! The Democrat is for township and ward local option—true local option—because it believes more territory will be made dry and kept dry upder such a law than tinder the county unit. It believes that the will of the people must prevail,