Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1900 — Rensselaer Newspapers. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Newspapers.

Delphi H.-rald. There is probably not another town in Indiana where the newspaper situation is such as it is in Rensselaer. The town is about the same size as Delphi and the field is pretty well crowded, the four printing offices issuing a totul ofyelaven publications a week —six issues of a daily, two of a semi-weekly and one each of three weeklies. This results in sharp competition and perhaps a general hustle of the publishers to make both ends meet. Two of the Offices are republican and two are democratic, but none of tiiern to ‘'co-habit.” For several days past they have been wrangling over county printing bills and the latest move is the filing of a criminal libel suit by one editor against another. And it has not been very long since a , similar case was settled. Its an unusual thing, to see, newspaper publishers tangled up in law suits and fisticuffs, and an apparent exception to the rule that j •the pen is mightier than the j sword.” Rensselaer editors should take for example the lives of Delphi newspaper» men, where everything is love, and peace and happiness, within and without!