Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1915 — Where “Knocking” Is a Virtue and “Boosting” Is a Joke. [ARTICLE]

Where “Knocking” Is a Virtue and “Boosting” Is a Joke.

The Republican says that The Democrat man is a “knocker,” while the bombastic editor of the Republican is a “booster.” Well, to be called a “knocker” by some people is a high compliment, and The Dem ocrat’s “knocks” have saved many of its readers and the people in general fropi being swindled in many of the “boosts” of the Republican. The Democrat man believes in boosting things worthy of being boosted and knocking—as the Republican pleases to term it —those that are unworthy. Compare the record of the past dozen years and see which has been in the right. The good people of Terre Haute, who sought to clean up the rottenness of their city, were no doubt dubbed “knockers” by the bunch who are now on their way to Ft. Leavenworth to remain for a term of years as guests of your Uncle Sam. The Republican’s “boosts” have become a standing joke with everyone, but the bump of egotism of its “booster” editor is so abnormally developed that it overshadows all his reasoning faculties, and he hasn’t found it out yet. It is indeed amusing to note how he always hitches up with the wrong end of every gold brick scheme that comes along.