Rensselaer Union, Volume 10, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1878 — THOSE NAUGHTY COMMISSIONERS. [ARTICLE]

THOSE NAUGHTY COMMISSIONERS.

The deniocrutic Democratic Sentinel wants to know, you kuow, why the honorable board of comintssipners of Jasper county prefer to advertise in The Union to turning over public patronage to its cofters. Well, there are several reasons why they should do this. First: Because The Union is Sentinel is only a patent medicine organ, and tlie law provides that advertisements of a publu; Character must be published in n newspaper. Second: Because The Union has a much larger and more general circulation in Jasper county, in tlie stateof Indiana, and in tlie United States of America generally than Hie Di moeratic Sentinel ever had or ever will have under its present management. Third: Because The Union is read by nearly every person in the county, whether subscribers or not, while hundreds of people have never yet seen a copy of the Democratic Sentinel, and scores of tboee who have aqqandered tlieir means for it seldom open it for instruction. Fourth: Because the members of the board nf county commissioners are republicans who prefer to place the patronage in their control as the auditor is directed by statute to do—with the papcriiavlifg’the largest circulatlou witbin the county, and, when they can do so just as wei! as not, to give it to a newspaper which represents their political doctrines, aud is not forever filled with low scurrilous abuse of their political aud personal friends. Fifth: W hen the democrutiu -auditor and democratic clerk of Jasper, county, who rank the commissioners,, set an example by dividing the patro;hNge which they Control and give a small portion of it to The Union, to the influence of whiuh paper aud its friends they are largely Indebted for their election, there will be plenty of time for the-Demowafto Sentinel to pick a quarrel With the board of county commissioners, and for the editor of the Democratic Sentinel to personally assail memborsof thesohoql board of the town of Rensselaer for not making donations to the support of democratic newspapers. If the state-mv-ul of a candidate on the, uulioual

greenback labbr democratic ticket of Jasper county is true that thereto an understanding between them and the democrats for them, in case they are elected, to give all of the county patronage to the Democratic Sentinel, and tlie Democratic Sentinel is certain as it claims that that ticket will all be "successfully elected undefeated” by a “numerous and overwhelming majority,” why dosen’t it wait decently and with patience for its appointed time? Meanwhile The Union wilt grow better week bj week at the low price of one dollar a year, fifty cants for six months, twenty-five cents for three months. Job printing done in the neatest style of the art cheaper than any other house in the state of Indiana. It was because tlie proprietor of The Union did the work cheaper aud neater that lie received the award this year of the contract for the agricultural society’s printlagi the school printing, and the last court docket.