Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1911 — The Democrat Has Been Consistent. [ARTICLE]

The Democrat Has Been Consistent.

It would seem that it should be most humiliating to a newspaper to admit that it has been falsifying right along in its statements regarding PuTtelle and his “construction work” on his hot air railroad. The - Democrat wants to see an electric railroad through Rensselaer just as much as anyone else and did all it could to encourage the proposed Enfield road, the only logical proposition that has been presented to the people here, but it can 'see nothing to be gained by falsifying the facts. It distrusted Purtelle from the first and it has” but one regret now. and that is that it did not do its full duty to the public when it kept quiet for a time about Purtelle’s checks being turned down. It thought perhaps these might be taken up in a few days, and much as it distristed the man, we felt that if he could accomplish anything that it would throw no stones in his way. Had The Democrat did its full duty to the public then it might be that there would be fewer of these bad checks now* in the hands of the people of Jasper county. A newspaper, if it be worthy of the name, o-Wes a duty to the publia that is greater than that to any individual. The Democrat endeavors to the best of its ability to fulfill that duty, and in doing so it of course will gain the displeasure of the Purtelles and their ilk.