Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — SENTIMENT IS GROWING [ARTICLE]

SENTIMENT IS GROWING

But It Is Against Instead of for Promotor Purtelle. Speaking of-the defeat of Purtelle railroad subsidy in the election recently held in Wolcott and Prnceton tp., the White County Democrat says: “From this it will be, seen that outside of precinct one the vote .was almost three to one against the tax. In precinct 3. alone it was more than 4 to 1, which is about what it should have been in all of them. Just why almost half the intelligent voters of the first precinct should have been willing to vote, a tax on themselves to aid a scheme with so little foundation to it as Purtelle’s seems strange to persons who have. watched his devious methods.” . The subsidy was defeated n Febrtfary, 1910, by a majority of 68, and at the recent election by 84.