Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1912 — Progressives May Start An Organ In Rensselaer. [ARTICLE]

Progressives May Start An Organ In Rensselaer.

It is rumored that the Roosevelt followers in Rensselaer are thinking seriously of establishing a newspaper in Rensselaer. Angered at the treatment cacorded them by the old republican organ and the instills and gibes they have become the tarket for at the hands of its editors, there has been serious talk of starting a progressive organ here to get their views before the public, and even the man to have charge of the paper has been discussed to considerable extent. Considerable dissatisfaction with the old organ was expressed by republicans during the last campaign for the position it took in the bridge graft cases here, and in fact for its position on most questions of local interest that come up, and it is blamed greatly for the 'big slump in. the republican vote in Jasper county, Now, with the strong anti-Taft sentiment over the county many of the Roosevelt followers think, is an opportune time to establish an organ that will be more in accord with public sentiment and give their faction of the party a “square deal.” ♦ Whether the whole thing will end in talk remains to be seen, but there are plenty of Roosevelt men here who could easily put up the “sppndu” if they desire to, and the financing of the new paper would no doubt be a very easy matter In White county, it is undetstood, the Journal, the daily paper published at Monticello, will be the organ of the Progre-sives, and there is said to be over one nundred progressives in Monticello alone, and they are among the most solid and substantial citizens of that city. '