Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 March 1910 — DIRTY POLITICS ONLY. [ARTICLE]

DIRTY POLITICS ONLY.

In the French Lick Case Against the Hotel Company. Thomas Taggart is to be congratulated upon the failure of the contemptible effort to wreck his business at French Lick for personal and political reasons. The fact that eight of the twelve jurymen before whom the case against the French Lick Springs hotel company was tried are Republicans makes his exoneration more and gives *addi_tional satisfaction to his friends everywhere. J. Frank Hanly—probably the most vindictive and ufiscrupiffous politician eveir honored beyond his deserts by any party in any state —was the instigator of this malicious suit against the hotel company, and he hoped through it to Wight the character and ruin the political usefulness of Mr. Taggart. In thus trying to gratify his innate and ungovernable desire to injure or crush some fellow creature Hanly has involved the state and the, hotel company in heavy expense, and it is a pity, that he made to reimburse both, —Indianapolis * Independent. ; / 'I