People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1894 — A Whopper. [ARTICLE]

A Whopper.

The following is from the Chicago Inter Ocean: Rensselaer, Ind., Oct. 16. Special Telegram.— The largest and most enthusiastic concourse of people yet assembled in this campaign in Jasper county gathered in this city to-day to hear Gen. Thomas H. Nelson, of Terre Haute, speak on the Republican issues. By noon there were fully 5,000 visitors in town. Is there any excuse for such false statements as the above ? How can we expect the reading public to have any conlidence in our newspapers when men will report such uncalled for falsehoods. On the balloon ascension day —October 16—there were j present not to exceed 300 or 400 people, besides our own town I folks, with the town all out and i right in the middle of the street [it made a very respectable api pearance, but to say 5,009 visitors came to Rensselaer to hear [Gen. Thos. H. Nelson, is a i “whopper” poorly told. The i party that sent that dispatch,for [ought we know, is the same one who says Squire Spriggs is the [first man on the Iriquois ditch -petition, and who also says our ’ county levies in '93 were 44 cents and in '94, 43 cents.