Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1910 — JUST LIES! LIES! LIES! [ARTICLE]

JUST LIES! LIES! LIES!

Says- the Republican—Contractors, Like “Judy,” Did More. Than They Agreed. One of the Republican editors was out to the Burk bridge, says the Republican, and measured the extension*built five years ago. He not only found the full 140 feet contracted for, but 7 feet additional. And The Democrat lied! Lied! Lied! Whether the Republican editor began at the point where the extension started we know not, but while reputable people of that vicinity have told us heretofore that the extension “was short,’’] it was not until perhaps two months ago that a republican county official who is in a position to know what he was talking about and who carefully measured the'extension told us that the extension wa? short some 30 -feet. He knew where the extension begun. - The man who furnished every ■ foot of piling use c d in the extension told us but-recently in the presence of witnesses, that 'he knew no such amount of piling was put down as the county paid I for, and that none of it was put down over nine feet. He also said tha£ a certain 'county com•missioner made the arrangements with him for furnishing the piling! . i We have not very much confidence in the Republican editors’ judgment, figures of truthfullness. It ’ will be remembered that one of them inspected the recent improvement to the north end of the same bridge “thoroughly” and then came back and said the specifications had been followed to the closest point. Yet. in its very next issue, “re-nig-ged,” after The Democrat’s exposure and admitted that there ha-I’ • • 1

been some slight changes which ?*did not cheapen the work, nor favor the contractor.” •v The bridge extension is there tjpshow for itself, and The Democrat will have a little more to say about it in its next issue.