Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 January 1912 — NOTHING MORE TO BE SAID. [ARTICLE]

NOTHING MORE TO BE SAID.

Republican Crawls Into Its Hole and Draws Hole In After It. The letter frorft the Inter-State Mfg. Co. published in. Wednesday’s Democrat left nothing more to be said on the part Of the Rensselaer Repub’lcan as to the value of the piano given away in The Democrat's recent piano contest, and it also showed to the public just what lengths that buen will go to in "their efforts to discredit and injure The Denjocrat and its editor and publisfier. ‘The attack was etnirely unprovoked and unjustified. .The Republican carried on a precisely the same plan of contest a few years ago and not a word against it was dpne or said at, any time in this paper of by the writer in nay way. When (Tie contest was over The Democrat mentioned the winnei without any criticism of the contest or mis-repfesenting the value of their piano, which we will now state, howevfcr, was nob to be compared with , that given away by The Democrat in Its contest closing' Dec. 23.

The most despicable part of the whole thing is the Republican's tryipg to injure the sale of the piano. It had passed out of the ) hands of The Democrat and ia a financial way the Republican’s unjustifiable attack could not injure us so far as tlje results of the contest were concerned. But the 'winner in the contest, Miss Ida Hurley, Is a deserving poor girl and expected to sell the instrument and use the proceeds to help pay j her way through the Rensselaer high school to fit herself for a teacher, and she should realise upwards of S3OO for the instrument. I To her the attack is of great damage, and the friends who assisted her in winning in the contest ought to resent the unjustifiable attack on the value of the piano by the jealous Republican. j u Now, just a word as to the facts regarding The Democrat’s contest | When Mr. C. H. Dayton, representing the Inter-State Mfg. Go., came to Rensselaer, he stoped at the Makeever House,, and naturally called upon the Republican first, its office being just across the street therefrom. Mr. Clark was the only memlber of the firm in when he ! called. The latter was most favorably impresed with the plan but said he could do nothing without consulting* Healey, who would soon be in. The piano man said -thathe would go up the street and see what he could do toward interesting the - merchants in handling the voting certificates and would be * . V back in a short time. On his trip; up town he called on D. M. Worland, and in starting back dropped into The Defhocrat sanctum, and told us the above facts—which are absolutely correct —and we asked him what the plan was. On its being explained we clearly saw that the Republican was sure .to take it up, and so we took time by the forelock and closed a contract to handle it before the representative of the Inter-State Co., left,our office, and he never went back to the Republican at all! Now the reader can easily see the sour grapes fermenting. This is all. We beat ’em” to it.