Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 72, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1916 — TO FRAME WILSON’S LETTER [ARTICLE]

TO FRAME WILSON’S LETTER

Lafayette, Deteember 4 .—Three weeks ago the Jackson club of TipI>ecanoe county sent a message congratulating President Wilson on his re-election, and today Jacob J. Biehm, president of the club, received the following reply from the White House: “May I not express •to you and to all concerned my warmest thanks for your generous message? It gave me the greatest satisfaction to he so remembered. Cordially and sincerely yours, Woodrow Wilson.” The letter was signed in the President’s own handwriting and will be framed and placed in the library of the club.

Country newspaper publishers may reduce the high cost of print paper by dropping non-paying readers from their subscription lists. This will not mitigate against advertisers who generally recognize a dead head reader is not a desirable customer. It is the person who pays that is appreciated by the merchant as well as the editor. The Slogan of the publisher should be: “Beat the high cost of paper by pruning the subscription list.” Arid the publisher who neglects to adopt this method, must suffer the high price schedule. —Motion News.

Governor Ralston has appointed Strange N. Cragun of Lebanon as Republican member of the state board of tax commissioners, to succeed William fil. Hart, whose term has expired. Other members "of t h©T tax board are James Houck, Democrat, whose term expires next August, and T. D. Scales, Democrat, who continues in office until January 8, 1919. The incoming Republican secretary of state and auditor of state are ex-officio members of the board.

Every county in Utah was carried by Wilson in the late election, his plurality in the staite being 29,892 according to official returns just compiled. King and Bamberger, Democrats, carried the state for United States senator by a plurality of 24,035 and 18,786, respectively. Wilson’s plurality in Montana was 34,313, and in Colorado it was 76,508. Again we doff our Stetson to the voters of the “Golden West.”

The expenditures of the Democratic state committee in the recent campaign were but $70,937.38, according to the statement filed by State Chairman Korbley. According to the statement of ithe Republican chairman that party spent $245,000, over three times a§ much as the amount spent by the Democrats, and still, wirtih the aid of the kaiser, they only carried Indiana by a few thousand plurality. ‘ ,