Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1908 — NO APOLOGIES ARE NECESSARY HERE. [ARTICLE]

NO APOLOGIES ARE NECESSARY HERE.

The military editor of the syndicate sheet comes out in a longwinded article apologizing for its bitter campaign against democrats, and : supinely begging for their support. 1 This was to be expected of such people. After abusing democrats to the extent of its weak ability, it is but proper from its standpoint to now take back all it has said and hyprocritically ask them to help keep the fire hot .under their political kettle. The Democrat has no such apologies to offer. What it has said in this campaign it honestly believed, and still believes. It has not printed stuff it knew to be false simply for political effect. This paper has had the support of republican business men in the past for business reasons and not for its political stand, and it expects to have /such support in the future. Our money is spent with those who spend money with us, be they democrat or republican. We have also had the support of hundreds of republicans other than those engaged in business pursuits, because they knew /The Democrat would tell them the truth and because they were disgusted with the machine methods of their own party and their wilful waste of public funds. - The •mocrat believes that the results of the election in Jasper county bears out our* contentions, in that the majorities have been very materially reduced. While the result in this senatorial district with j its usual 2,500 republican plurality, is too obvious to be commented up.on. i The Democrat, in the campaign just ended, did not feel that it

was necessary to attack personally the real owner of the Republican, I. M. Washburn, nor any employe of that office simply because h6~WaIT an employe tlfere, though; we might possibly have said somethings that would not have set well. But such methods are despicable, and no one with a thimbleful of brains would resort to them. The Democrat aims to so conduct its. new and editorial columns tat all times that it does not have to apologize to anyone, a policy that other would-be newspapers would do well to follow. This paper does not bid for the support of business then of the opposite party by groveling in the dust at their feet and whinning that “it didn’t mean it,” but does ask their support on that broader ground, that the dollar of a democrat is just as good as the dollar ot a republican; that their advertising placed in this paper reaches more of the purchasing public than any other paper in the county, and therefore they get value received for the money they spend with us. The military editor’s attempt to arraign republican business men against The Democrat but emphasizes the general opinion of the public as |o his assinine propensities, and will fall on barren ground. *