Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1915 — Where The Democrat Editor Stands. [ARTICLE]

Where The Democrat Editor Stands.

The “booster” editor of the Republican—whose “boosts” have become such a joke with everybody but himself —wants to know where The Democrat stands—as we take it, on the welfare of Rensselaer anu surroundings. That is a very easy question. The Democrat stands for every improve ment and enterprise that }s of real benefit to the people of Rensselaer and Jasper county. It cannot see, however, why money should be taken from the pockets of the taxpayers and given to private corporations without any adequate return therefor. The Democrat stands for honesty

and integrity, good morals and the betterment of the condition of our town and county and its people. It is for improved roads, better drainage and every other improvement that will be of real and lasting benefit to our people. But it is against helping every bunch of promotors or other grafters who would swindle our peoples on fake factory proposv tions, bridge steals, or other fakes. It is perfectly willing that any corporation should build another railroad through Rensselaer with their own capital. But when that time comes it would much prefer that the road should be built to Remington, in our own county, with which place we have something in common, rather than some town in another county in which we have no particular interest. We think that The Democrat’s record during the past seventeen years, the things it has advocated and those it has opposed, are a sufficient criterion to show where we stand on all matters of public interest. In many of the gold brick schemes advocated by the “booster” editor of the Republican and opposed by The Democrat, the former has finally had to come over to “our side” after it was shown conclusively that the scheme was nothing but a fake. If the “booster” editor’s foresight was equal to his hindsight he’ might occasionally get on the rightside of public questions instead of invariably being on the wrong side.