Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1914 — ANOTHER SUBSIDY ELECTION [ARTICLE]

ANOTHER SUBSIDY ELECTION

Will Be Asked For by Railroad Promoters in Jordan and Carpenter Townships. The present promoters of the Northwestern Indiana Traction Company, announce that they will ask for another subsidy election in Carpenter and Jordan townships, where the proposition has twice been turned down in the past two months. This time, they say, they will ask for % per cent less than in the previous elections—l% per cent in Carpenter and 1 per cent in Jordan. It is understood that petitions are now being circulated to file with the county commissioners at their regular meeting, one week from Monday. Now, regardless of whether one’ favors or is opposed to this subsidy 1 , it seems to us that it is an infernal outrage on the people to attempt to wear them out on this proposition. They have twice spoken very decisively in the matter in the past 60 days. It ought to be unlawful to call an election oftener than one or two years, at least, to vote on the same proposition, and our remembrance is that an act of this kind was passed by the last legislature, but was lost or destroyed in the disgraceful rampage that some of the members of the “late lamented’’ went on the last night of the session, and it never reached the governor.

If it is right for one side to call another election when a question is decided aversely to them by the voters, it should also be right for both sides to do this. It is an imposition on the people of Carpenter and Jordan townships to compel them to leave their work again at a busy season of the year and go to the polls and vote on a proposition which they have already sat down upon twice, and it is hoped that if they are compelled to do so, they will defeat the proposition so badly that it will never be heard from again.

The Democrat believes that the county commissioners should refuse to grant a third election in either of these townships, and if the promoters want to carry t’.e proposition further let them appeal to the circuit court with their petition.