Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — SHIFTING THE BOOZE BURDEN. [ARTICLE]

SHIFTING THE BOOZE BURDEN.

Neither the republicans nor the democrats openly profess friendship for booze. The wretched creature is kicked about on all sides, and when it stays near the premises of one party, the other party points a finger of shame at the other fellow.—Republican. Yes, we distinctly remember a little incident up at Cedar Lake one Sunday a year or two ago. Two Rensselaer gentlemen had occasion to pass through the basement of the Sigler hotel. Along one side of the basement, on the north, were what appeared to be several little private beer stalls, with a couple of chairs and a table Inside of each. Just as they go! along about the center of this row, the door of one of the stalls Immediately in front of them opened and the editor of a republican paper stepped out with three empty beer bottles in his hands. As he turned to close the door to hide -rom view the female who remained in .the stall, whom they could not very well help seeing—and whom they had a strong suspicion was not the wife of his bosom—the editor saw them! ! ! WELL, if that republican editor could have shifted that mute testimony of booze—the three Ampty bottles—onto some democrat about that time, there isn <■ the slightest doubt but he would have done so might quick. As it was his face turned all colors of the rainbow, and then nodding shamefacedly to one of the gentlemen, he passed on to the bar, turned in his three, empties, got three more full ones and went back to the beer stall.