Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1911 — SUBSIDIES ARE VOTED DOWN [ARTICLE]

SUBSIDIES ARE VOTED DOWN

Carpenter and Newton Tups. Defeat Partello's Scheme DECISIVE VOTE AGAINST TAX To Aid the Discredited Com- '• pany, and It Is Now to Be Hoped Purtelle Will Hie Himself to Some Other Clime.

The subsidy elections in Carpenter and Newton tps. Saturday to vote a 1% per bent tax for Purtelle’s electric railroad scheme resulted in a cold turndown for the'discredited promotor, and it would indeed seem that he and the few, very few, people here who profess to still have confidence in him, would take a tumble to the fact that he is down and out here so far as Rensselaer and Jasper county is concerned; that he is thoroughly discredited and, can do nothing whatever to re-establish himself in the confidence of our people. In Carpenter tp. the subsidy was defeated by 85 majority, ’O4 for to 189 against, and in Newton it was defeated by 40 majority, 20 for to 68 against. These figures are unofficial. The vote will be canvassed here tomorrow. In Newton tp. the proposition lacked three of receiving as many votes as there were signers to the petition, many of the petitioners being utterly disgusted because Purtelle had not put up a good bond as he had promised. The unofficial vote in Carpenter by precincts was as follows: For -Against East ....39 60 West 26 75 South 39 54 ’ Total 104 189 A surety company bond for SIOO was put up in the. Carpenter subsidy election case by Purtelle, as a guarantee that the expense of the election would be paid in the event of its failure to cany, and in Newton Purtelle as president of his company filed a guarantee to pay. Now let the county commissioners order the collection of these cosfs instead of saddling it on the county.