Rensselaer Gazette, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1858 — “Sold by Shects & Braden.” [ARTICLE]

“Sold by Shects & Braden.”

The above caption may be found on all the blanks used by »ur county officers and it is an everlasting shame that these men, living in I'ndii anapoiis, uro patronize^'when just as good work i can be had at home, “To the victors belong the ' spoils,”, is an old motto, and certainly- a good one. Mr. Davies aided in the election of the present board of county officers, and is still doing what he : can for the success of their party. Printers never | i get paid the worth of their services, and for olli- , ; cers to go to Lafayette or Indianapolis for their blanks just because they arc offered a little cheaperthau country printerscan afford, ought to politically damn any man. We cl.-.im, and we think justly,'that horn'- printers, like mechanics generally, ought to receive home patronage. L”t ' this practice «l going to “Sheets &, Braden” be carried out in all respects, and no county will have a newspaper. The paying patronage of country papers is rneagr * anv way, and depriving their proprietors of the binn'k printing for'the coo nt v reduces it still more. For one, we are disposed to frown not only upon “Sheets \ Braden," for thus swindling country publishers, hut upon all couijtv officers, whether Rapublicau or Democratic, who lack the moral courage to patronize home printers in preference to the rat establishments of Lafayette and | Indianapolis.— Democratic Expositor. Increase dv Cm-ifcii Members.— The Examin- I er says the number of members of the Evangel--1 ical Churches of the United States, during the last fifty years, has increased from 400,61)0 to 3,6)1(1,0(10, being an increase ot eight-fold, while our populatjoji has increased oply fourfold.