Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1911 — DENIES THE ALLEGATION. [ARTICLE]

DENIES THE ALLEGATION .

The military editor of the Republican says that he did not go before the county commissioners last week and want the board to fix the limit for saloons in Jasper county at one to each 500 population ; he merely said that to fix it at one to the 1,000 offered splendid opportunity for graft by the commissioners. (The idea) The editor’s “talk” was so taken, however, by at least some of those who heard it and was so reported to The Democrat, by a very prominent and reliable citizen. Of course “the well known temperance proclivities” of this editor eliminates any personal desire on his part in the number of saloons, but as some editors aire said tp 'have such a weakness for gambling that they “had rather play -poker than eat,” it may have been the theory that the more saloons the more poker games. As for graft by the commissioners, we will soon have two democrats on the board, neighbor, and we don’t believe they will be prone to such weakness.