Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — A Case of Now You See It, and Now You Don’t. [ARTICLE]

A Case of Now You See It, and Now You Don’t.

Evidently the legal mind of the editors of the Republican is not working right. In a recent issue the Republican said that the promotors of the so-called Lafayette & Northwestern Railroad Co. MUST follow the line of the blueprint profile filed with the clerk of the circuit court; that the route could not thereafter be changed. It now says that Promotor Brown has agreed to change the line to make it more agreeable to the voters out at St. Joseph college. It would seem that Brown is almost as accommodating as the lamented Purtelle and will run his line any old place,, just so the neople vote him a subsidy. However, there is a law regarding this matter that will have to be observed or he will not get even a look in at the $61,000 that he asks for here, even should it be voted. It is probable that the editors of the Republican are taking qn too much just at this time and they might have made»a more lucid “argument’’ perhaps had they postponed ousting the Republican county superintendent, Mr. Lamson, until after they had carried this $61,000 subsidy proposition through.