Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1908 — THE DEMOCRATIC WAY. [ARTICLE]

THE DEMOCRATIC WAY.

Oias. Carter and wife of Silver Lake came Saturday to visit Mrs. Carter’s parents, Uncle Billy and Mrs. Bull of this city. Yesterday they went to Mt. Ayr to visit Mr. Carter’s sister, Mrs. Prank Yeager. Today they expect to go to hear Taft at Brook and will return home Saturday or Monday of next week. Mr. Carter lives in a county with a normal republican majority of 1,700, but two years ago the democratic auditor, sheriff, treasurer and two commissioners were elected. Then the fun commenced. They got after the old republican treasurer and made him pay back $1,600, and the one before him $96, the democratic sheriff has run the county sheriff’s office on very much less money than it had been run before, and the commissioners have got rid of a debt of $50,000 that they inherited from their republican predecessors, or, to be accurate, they have sll,000 on hand to wipe out the remainder of the debt as soon as it becomes due, and the county tax levy has been reduced 9 cents! With this record to their credit they expect results this fall and they will get them too. “You can fool some of the people all the time, you can fool all the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time time,” and don’t you forget it.