Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1879 — Democratic Financiering. [ARTICLE]

Democratic Financiering.

Special correspondence of Th* Union. Kdiiob Union:— lt is understood tbnt the democracy of Rensselaer are working early and late to carry the town election next Monday. Do the people and tax* payers want any more democratic financiering? The last time the democracy controlled the board of trustees thoy left the town eight hundred dollars in debt. They built the expensive culvert and crossing at the foot of Front street, below the school house,at an enormous expense, and it is now crumbling down aftetr only three or four years of use. The marshat whom they say was the best the town has ever had, was the must expensive officer for the amount of service rendered the town has ever paid for. Democracy is the same _ every where; extravagant In appropriations of public money, reckless in its uses, falso and unscrupulous in its claims of honesty in public affairs. Look around and not n single city can be found under democratic, partisan control that is not groaning be* neath ita load of debt which ia being annually increased, *