Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1911 — ELECTIONS COST $200 [ARTICLE]

ELECTIONS COST $200

County Commissioners Have Taken No Action as Yet Toward Recovering It. While no action whatever was taken by the commissioners on the Purtelle bonds at the board’s meeting last week, we trust that action will be taken at the next meeting at least. The money paid out for holding these elections belongs to Jasper county, and unless it is refunded to the county treasury, action should be brought in the courts to collect it. It belongs to the county just* as much as does any balance due the Iroquois ditch fund from W. F. Smith & Co. for rock used on the Rensselaer-Marion tp. stone roads, belongs to said ditch fund, and the commissioners will be remiss in their duty to their constituency if they fail to make an honest effort to collect it back. t In a recent communication to the Indianapolis News, Purtelle said among other things, concerning these elections:

It is true that we failed to carry these two elections for the very good reason that we had changed the line of the road after calling the elections, leaving these two townships out, making no effort to carry them. The statement that there had been bad faith on my part and that I refused to give an indemnifying bond in both elections as I had promised, is not true, as a good and sufficient bond was given the Jasper county commissioners in each case at the time of the petitions asking for calling the election were granted. Now if these bonds are worth anything let some action be taken to prove it, or let it be officially shown that Purtelle is * notorious falsifier and deadbeat. which is already well known to many people he has had dealings with.