Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1871 — "Who Struck Billy Patterson?” [ARTICLE]

"Who Struck Billy Patterson?”

“Gratot will be reuonnnated.” Wviamac Democrat. And re-elected. The editor, of the Kentland Democrat says that wo Ho, and yct.be in not happy. < Brother Jacob Reiser wants to *•11 the Onarga Courier for “satisfactory reasons.” Messrs. Thomas «& Ingram oiler the Winarnac Democrat oflicc ior sale. They want to hoc Westward. The people of White county voted in favor of taxing themselves one-fourth of one per cent., week before last, by a majority of 40, in aid of the lndionapolis, Delphi and Chicago Railroad. fune'e then elections have been ordered in Union and Monon 'townships, to be held on the SOtli instant, for an additional lax of 1 f per cent. j When the absconding Auditor of Newton county “slum eowl” he took with him S7O belonging to Bro. Spettswood of the Kentlaml Democrat. “It don't take a very smart Newton county Auditor to go through” a Kentlnnd Justice of the O Peace, docs it Brother SpOttswood? “You know how it is yourself,” don't it? The Agricultural society of Pulaski, White, Jasper and Starke counties has decided (o hold its lirst annual Fair on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday the 10th, lllh and 12th of October, at the grounds recently purchased near Franccsvillc. The - premium list, rules and regulations will soon he ready for' publication. The Lafayette Courier says “The plan agreed upon by the Trustees of the Purdue University, by which nil difficulty was removed aud amicably reconciled contemplates the erection ol a building, the basement of which is to he completed this fall. The main building is to be 54\T35 feet, to ho three stories in bight, the style of architecture that of the Cornell University in New York, but with larger and more conveniently arranged rooms.’’ 9

If there bo any who think that the popular uprising of the people to resist tho operations of the Kankakee A T alloy Draining Com-j pany has killed that organization, let them disabuse their minds of that idea and prepare for a protracted and desperate struggle. The company is very far from dead. It has already been at too great an expense of time, labor and money in making Surveys, mapping, appraising, advertising, printing, etc., to back down aud abandon their project at the first breath of public opposition. This week* at Monticello before Judge Vinton, Judge M. K. Farrand and L. A. Cole, of | Laporte, appeared as attorneys for thp company and strenuously resisted the application <>f A. J. Kent for an order to temporarily restrain its operations. These attorneys said that the company had |ilready disposed of *200,000 ol their bonds and would §pend the last raised, in litigation before they gave the matter np. In fact they arc'in a condition now similar to that of the hunter who caught a bear by his tail, they cannot very well k\t go. Messrs. I. M. Stackhouse and: Thos. Boroughs are putting in all j . their spare time holding meetings in Washington, Beajver and Jackson townships, of Newton county, for the purpose of raising local subscription for the benefit of the proposed Fort AVayne it Pacific .railroad. It is reported that the people ■'of those townships are keenly alive to the benefits and advantages this road will bring them and that they are .subscribing quite liberally and freely to this important enterprise. The managers of the Kankakee City section of this road have a large force at work on the road bed and quarrying stone tor bridgef|and culverts. They are anxious to reach the State line nnd have everything in readiness for tracklaying at an early day. President Dwiggins, Secretary Stackhouse and others whose intimacy with tlie board of officer* of the Fort AY’ayrie & Pacific road entitle them to a knowledge of tbo facts tell us that all tbe prospect* of this project are flattering and that as soon as the Iocs! aid js subscribed work will be commenced and vigorously

“A fcw weeks ago we received tho circulars and prospectus of the 'Kankakee Drainage Association.’ We investigated tlie matter and became, satisfied that the plan proponed by tho organization was n cold-blooded, heartless scheme to rob the land owners of seven counties of our Ktate of i over half a million acres of land, under ; cover of a Jaw passed by the last -Leg- | Mature. * ' * *! * * * ! The Journal was the first paper to open fire upon the rascula, and by arousing j tho land owners to action wo have | succeeded in'defeating .|lie meditated ' swindle.”- —Indianupalit Journal. Under its present 'Smmagenient i the Indianapolis Journal is a vast' improvement over former years.— ! Recently it has been improved in typographical appearance as well j as in 'journalistic enterprise and editorial ability. But while we are freely willing and very glad to accord to the proprietors of our “party organ"’ at the Capital their full measure of praise for t,hcir enterprise in collecting an interesting melange of news from all parts of the State, nation and world, and while it is with feelings of pleasure and pride that we read the wcll-wriltcn and good common sense articles upon subjects editorially treated which appear from time to time in its columns, we do not think the Journal can lay rightful claim to the title of pioneer in opposition to the scheme of the Kankakee \ alley Draining Company. This proud distinction, without question, belongs exclusively to* the Kentland Gazette. # That paper “opened fine” sometime during the summer ol 1809 and has kept up a desultory bombardment, at intervals, ever since. Its provocation, as the Company claims, was the failure of its ediloiy-Mr. Conner,- !© -obtain an appointment as one of the board ot appraisers. The first article published by the Journal in relation to this matter was an item taken from, and properly credited to, the ReSSSSLAKK Union; this appeared since the schedule of the appraisers was filed with the Recorders of the several counties where lands are affected by the company’s operations, and its appearance in our columns, not the Journal's, — occasioned Mr. Gliddeft, Vice President of the Draining Company, to issue a special circular attempting to an-

swer it. As has long been remarked of the two principle Indianapolis papers, on all subjects of importance to a largo number of ! people they do not express an opinion until after the country press has been read, then they rant and rave in grand tragic style; so in this instance the Journal was as mum as a fish and never ventured eu editorial opinion until it had read the local papers of St. Joseph, Porter, Lake, Newton and Jasper counties. The Journal is also inaccurate.in respect to the law under which the company is organized. Instead of having been passed by the last Legislature, Its short-sighted and impractical provisions were lobbied through the special session of 1860, and its odium instead of belonging to a Democratic majority, as the quotation above insinuates, if the law was a . partizan measure, all comes home to roost with Republicans. The subject of tlie repeal of this Act entered importantly into the last political canvass in the. districts along the Kankakee river.— Dwiggins of Jasper, AY adge of Lake, Calkins ofPorter, Nethcrtou of Starke, Washburn of Pulaski and perhaps others, were pledged when elected to use their influence for the repeal of a law that was obnoxious to tlm* people whose lands were likely to be affected, and who were fully apprised of their danger and making preparations to avert it, at least twelve months bcj fdfe the Journal had knowledge of its existance. -