Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1917 — COUNTY CONSCRIPTION BOARD [ARTICLE]

COUNTY CONSCRIPTION BOARD

Is Composed of All Republicans in Jasper County. According to the list published In Sunday’s Indianapolis Star, Dr. C. E. Johnson of Rensselaer has been appointed on the selective draft registration board in place of O. K. Rainier, in compliance with the national order that the third member of the board be a practicing physician. It was stated that the physician shoula be of politics as the member of the board he succeeds, and it was therefore expected that Dr. Rainier of Remington would be appointed. But Dr. Johnson is a Republican and the present county coroner. Of course, there is not the slightest objection to Dr. Johnson serving on this board, except that the physician, it was supposed, would be of the same politics as the retiring member, bnt now the Republicans have all three members of the board, and these boards were supposed to be non-partisan and composed of but two members of the dominant party—the /sheriff and clerk, the two other members of the board, in our county both being Republicans, thus the third member should be a Democrat.