People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1896 — The Coming City Election [ARTICLE]

The Coming City Election

The Populists, not being sufficiently strong in Rensselaer to warrant the naming of a municipal ticket, the voters of that party will wisely exercise their best judgment, regardless of party, and choose fr<Jm the two tickets now nominated those citizens of whom they have reason to expect the most satisfactory service. It is desirable that the city's finances be most judiciously administered, that without injury to the commonweal the present high taxation shall be reduced. It is now, beyond cavil, oppressive and detrimental to the future growth and development of the town. It is true that the one item of taxation prevented negotiations looking toward the location of a manufacturing plant here this year, an institution that that would have given employment to from 100 to 200 people. The factory went to Burlington, Wis. v where taxes are much less than they are here.