Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1915 — No More Subsidy Elections Here for Some Time to Come. [ARTICLE]

No More Subsidy Elections Here for Some Time to Come.

It is a safe proposition to say that there will be no more railroad subsidy elections held in Rensselaer and Marion tp., for many months at least, on account of the subsidy voted the Indiana Northwestern Traction Co., still holding good, and it is very doubtful whether a subsidy could be carried here again. There is apparently no question but that an election cannot be legally be held here, but for the “moral effect,” it would have in the townships where such elections have been called, the attorneys for the present subsidy hunters wanted the matter continued by our county commissioners instead of having the petition summarilly dismissed, which it will be at the May session. The voters of those other townships, however, may rest assured that there will be no subsidy election held here before 1916—even should it be decided that it could legally be held then—and that such a change in sentiment toward the subsidy proposition has taken place here that it is extremely doubtful if it could be carried again.