Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1910 — BUT HOW WILL YOU GET IT BACK? [ARTICLE]

BUT HOW WILL YOU GET IT BACK?

Republican’s “Deathbed Repentance" Holds Out No Hope RECOVERY OF GRAFT MONEY Can Only Be Brought About By Election of Democratic County Commissioners and the Elimination of Abe Halleck as County Attorney. The Republican now has the nerve, just on the eve of the election, when' its “anything to be saved,” to claim credit for first having urged the recovery of the money Jasper county has been swindled out of on bridge contracts,- as shown by the report of Supt. Smith of Purdue University, who was employed by Prosecutor Longwell to. make an investigation..of quite a number erected by the Winamac Bridge Co., but the readers of that paper know how strongly it has (not) urged or even intimated such a thing. But, suppose that it had urged it, as it now proclaims, what has been done along that line? It has been known for more than six months that the taxpayers were swindled out of over S4OO on the Milroy tp., bridge alone and an aggregate of many hundreds more on other bridges erected by this same company. Has the county attorney or the commissioners made any attempt to recover this money or to make the contractors- come to time in the way of rebuilding their work according to the plans and specifications and their contract?

Have you heard anything of the kind Mr. [Taxpayer?, Has not the county attorney, who draws S4OO per year to look after your interests been one of the attorneys against you, trying with all his might and main to keep the reported facts from being brought out? Instead of assisting Prosecutor Longwell in trying to learn the truth has he not been lined up against the prosecutor all along? You know that he has, Mr. Taxpayer. You know that if you as an individual had found out that you were being swindled right along by a company whom you had dealt with*—you know that you would not give the swindling concern a chance to “do” you again.

Yoy also know that you would seek to make the swindlers make good the amount they had stolen from you. Have your “hired men,” the county commissioners and county attorney did this? What are you going to do about it? Do you think for a moment that if the -republican candidates for commissioner are elected that there will be any change in county attorney? Do you think if they are elected that the two old members can be depended on to bring these bridge graft swindlers to time or that they will make any effort to recover the amount you as taxpayers have been robbed of? Do you think this? It is an insult to your intelligence to ask you such a question. You know that the only hope of bringing about the reforms that your better judgment tells you should be brought about in Jasper county is by the election of William Hershman and Charlie Stackhouse instead of John Pettet and Robert Drake. Then act on your better judgment next Tuesday and give them a county auditor who will aid them in every honorable way in his power to give you a good, clean, honest and business like administraton —»vote for Hershman, Stackhouse and Beasley.

“Corn is King, has been the cry for years. The revision of this cry is, “The Barnyard Shoe is King." Every farmer and laborer who has worn them concedes this. Yoy will concede it after you have worn your first pair. Sold ahd waranted at Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store.