Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1912 — Wrong to Parole Parker; Right to Parole Bader. [ARTICLE]

Wrong to Parole Parker; Right to Parole Bader.

It is interesting to note that the Rensselaer Republican did not take the conviction of Tom McCoy and “Bob” Parker so much to heart as It has the conviction of C. I_. Bader, the Winamac bridge grafter. In their cases the law was not merely “corrective,” but the Republican thought they should serve out their full maximum sentence. Readers xfe'ill remember how it rent its shirt into shreds over the parole of Parker, at the expiration of his minimum sentence, which is customary it there are no discredits against the prisoner. But in Bader’s case “he ought to be paroled” before the expiration of the minimum sentence. > The Republican seems to hearrily agree with Governor Marshall that grafting and robbing the taxpayers is not a very serious crime and no punishment should be meted out for such a little matter as premeditated and systematic robbery of the people.