Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1911 — How Strange, If True. [ARTICLE]

How Strange, If True.

'- * The Rensselaer Republican • says that no less than about .7,000 “democrats” (perhaps it was j 7, but no matter about the numI ber) have called at its sanctum | sanctorum in the last few days I and complained about The DemI ocrat's criticism of Governor , Marshall in his interference with ( the administration of justice in , the Bader case. This would be strange, if true, but it isn’t true nor partly true. The statement is—in keeping with that paper’s j attitude all along in the Bader case, and its editors came very, very near figuring in contempt •of court proceedings for what i that paper said, and done while , the case was in court. I But about those 7,000 “democrats." Bader was also a “dem- ■ ocratT ahd he, also, “went to the Republican” after coming to The Democrat office and trying to impress us with his democracy. We hope the 7,000 “democrats” who have lately called on .the Republican will be given equal consolation with Bader. But peculiar as it may appear, not a democrat nor_a republican has called at The Democrat office and complained: . On the contrary, scores of democrats and many republicans have personally told the editor of The Democrat that they were glad to see-that there was one paper that had the independence to condemn such unwarranted action regardless of whether the official was a democrat or a rei publican.