Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1910 — THE CUURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE CUURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Miss Orabell Duvall is mastering the intricacies of the deputy clerk's duties and will take Miss Parker's place therein, we understand. -——O'- - Brook Reporter: We advise Judge Hanley to borrow Teddy’s big stick—the one with the knobs on—the next time he has a bridge grafter on trial, and bat every son of a gun over the head that dares open his mouth on the duties' of the court. Newten county republicans will hold their county convention at Morocco on March 31. The judicial • convention for Jasper and Newton counties will also be held on the same date at Morocco. There is only a prosecutor to name, and so far as heard from Mr. Longwell will have no opposition for renomination.

O —- Clinton L. Bader, general manager of the Winamac Bridge Co., was sentenced to from 2 to 14 years in the pen, in Jasper county recently, for fraud practiced on bridge contracts, after it was proven that he had used lighter iron and otherwise swindled the county on many contracts of seweral tons of iron for each bridge built. He bid lower than any other company could, and it was other bridge concerns that made him trouble, who knew he was taking the jobs for less than cost if done according to contract.— Crown Point Star. No, not all the republicans have been rending their linen to keep Bader out of prison. Jhere are, ..hundreds of honest men in that party in Jasper county who think with The Democrat that Gov. Marshall should not have made an exception in his case. This linenrending has been done by a -few who greatly feared he would have to go and that more might be learned about this grafting business than has yet been shown pp. If they let Bader go to prison he might tell all he knows—if, as generally believed he was not alone in the game. But with Bader free, and freed through the efforts of “his friends,” his lips are sealed. See?