Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1901 — Bumps Them All Out. [ARTICLE]

Bumps Them All Out.

The’brief newspaper abstracts of the new law regulating the government of all Indiana cities, not under speoial charter, have always left an uncertainty as to whether it operated to shorten the terms of present city officers. The law reduces all terms of suoh officers from four to two years. And now that the laws have been officially published, in book form, the question whether it affects present officers, whose terms would have jpore than two years still to run can be definitely and positively answered. And the answer is that it does so affect present officers. The terms of all such city officers, now in office, must expire on the first Tuesday in Sep. 1902, no matter for what time they were elected, and their successors must be elected on the first Tuesday in May 1902. The law makes this point very specific, - and specially mentions all mayors, clerks, treasurers, marshals, councilmen, and also all appointive city officers. Councilmen’s terms however expire in May 1902.

This law will strike Rensselaer city officers hard. It will cut off two years from the terms of Mayor Eger, Clerk Irwin. Treasurer Chapman, Marshal Simpson and from those three councilmen whose terms otherwise would run until 1904.