Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1910 — PAY YOUR MONEY AND TAKE YOUR CHOICE. [ARTICLE]

PAY YOUR MONEY AND TAKE YOUR CHOICE.

. .“The county commissioners of Jasper county cannot escape censure (in Winamac Bridge Co. steals). They should not have accepted bridges that were not right and while they may offer as an excuse that they believed from what examination they made that they were right, they cannot satisfy taxpayers with this sort of an excuse. They are the agents of the taxpayers and have failed to perform their duty in protecting the interests of their clientele.”—Rensselaer Republican, March 10, 1910. “The commissioners did not inspect the work (the Burk bridge). They are not obliged to do so and have been advised to accept the report of experts instead of acting on their own judgment. Mr. Waymire states that he acted on the report of the engineer and also that if the contract was violated the engineer was to blame.”—Rensselaer Republican, Oct. 21, 1910.