Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1910 — LONGWELL AFTER GRAF TERS. [ARTICLE]

LONGWELL AFTER GRAF TERS.

. The people of Benton county are watching with interest the effort being made, by prosecuting attorney Fred Longwell to clean up the moral ■atmosphere of Jasper county from the influence of grafters big and little. Mr. Longwell is a Fowler boy and has many friends who are interested in his welfare and are pleased to note his efforts in behalf of good government. We are informed that fully ninety-five per cent of the people of Jasper county approve of the course he is taking and are fully convinced that there is something going wrong in the matter of letting contracts and they want to see him sift the matter to the bottom. The investigation cannot .harm any honest man and the guilty will probably be caught in the dragnet which is being thrown around them. Mr. Longwell is being bitterly assailed by the Rensselaer Republican but this fact is not detering him from proceeding with the investigation. It is a peculiar sight to see a newspaper step to the front and exert every effort to prevent an investigation Of alleged wrong doing and it does not seem possible that the Republican is voicing the sentiment of the people of- Jasper county in pursuing such a course. As instancing the confidence which is reposed in Mr. Longwell it is said that the democratic judicial convention will endorse his candidacy, eliminating all party lines and rewarding an honest official who is doing his duty ip the face of. strong opposition which would deter a weaker man.—Benton Review.