Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1911 — WILL MR. BADER TALK? [ARTICLE]

WILL MR. BADER TALK?

If Made the “Goat” He Owes It to His Family and Friends to Speak Up. The placing of C. L. Bader behind the prison doors ends another chapter in the most noted graft prosecution ever brought to a successful end in northwestern Indiana. There may, perhaps, be other chapters written of this case in the future. Perhaps not. 'The matter is now up to Mr. Bader, and if he is the “goat” in this graft business and there were others connected with it whose persuasive powers led him into t'he systematic robbery' of the taxpayers which it has been shown was going on, as about nine-tenths of the people of Jasper county seem' to tfhink, he owes it to himself, his family, and his friends and to the public to make a clean breast of the whole matter, let the results be wCiat they may. __ That he himself was guilty there is- no doubt. But he is a man of more than ordinary intelligence and evidently went into the grafting business witfr his eyes wide open, well knowing what it would mean to get caught. If others than himself profited by his acts let him state w£io and where they are—let him make a full statement of all the facts. Instead of denying that rile bid on this Milroy tp.. bridge was changed from 51.240 to $1.400 —which is' self-evident from a careful examination of the bid—let him tell when and with whose knowledge this was done. Until he does so he is entitled to no more sympathy from the people of Jasper county or elsewhere than any other convicted grafter.