Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1910 — THREE TPS. VOTE AGAINST SUBSIDY [ARTICLE]

THREE TPS. VOTE AGAINST SUBSIDY

Union, Honey Crook and Princeton Defeat Proposition. MAJORITIES FROM 60 TO 200 White County Voters Set Down Hard On Toting Aid to So-Called Northwestern Indiana Traction Co., the Line Recently Granted a Franchise In Rensselaer. Three townships in White county voted Monday on the proposition of voting a total subsidy of some $50,000 to the so-called Northwestern Indiana Traction Co., the proposed line headed by Eugene Purtelle of Chicago who is proprietor of a number of generally so-called bucket shops in Indiana. In Union township (Monticello) the proposition was defeated by about 200 majority; In Honey Creek (Reynolds) by about the same vote, and in Princeton (Wolcott) by about 60. At the time of going to press we were unable to secure the official vote. For weeks the White county papers have been carrying paid advertisements! of the subsidy-hunters, but the editors have taken no position themselves for or against the proposition. They have opened their columns for a discussion of the merits and demerits of the plan by the taxpayers, and much interesting matter has been published on both sides. Monticello people do not take much to a road that will, if built, parallel the Panhandle from Logansport to Remington, and would much prefer one running north to Winamac. They could see little advantage to them in the road and, besides, the day of voting subsidies is fast disappearing in the more enlightened communities. The people are to be congratulated in those three townships on the way they "Voted In this If the promotors want to build the road, well and good, let it come, and the sooner the better, but don’t ask the people along the line to build it and turn It over to a corporation to conduct as a big divi-dend-paying proposition. The whole subsidy scheme is wrong in principle and should not be countenanced by the voters of any community.