People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Here's Something Else. [ARTICLE]

Here's Something Else.

G. E. Marshall opposed the proposed gravel roads at the last election, which action inincensed the board of county commissioners. In order to punish him for daring to assert his manhood in opposing this pet project of the board, this honorable (?) body made a verbal order to publish the notice of the coming election in the Sentinel, whose editor was one of the signers of the petition and referred the matter to Commissioner Martindale, to carry out their instructions, while the other two members returned to their respective homes. The order became known to some of the Republican petitioners, who, believing in free speech and Qpposing coercion in any form, quietly circulated a petition which was signed by the leading Republican petitioners and demanded that the order to pub.lisli the notice, of election in the Sentinel be recinded, and that the same be given to the Republican. When this petition was presented to Commissioner Martindale he immediately dispatched a message to the other two members of the board commanding their immediate presence. After a consultation, and seeing that the petioners were in dead earnest and in .no mood to be trifled with, they very reluctantly ordered this notice of election to be given to Mr. Marshall. They saw that if they did not do justice to Mr. Marshall that their pet project to place a bonded debt of 840,000 upon Marion township would fail at the polls. More Anon.