Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1902 — They Suppress the Facts. [ARTICLE]

They Suppress the Facts.

The Disreputable Methods Adopted At Kentland to Defeat Hanley For Judge. That the Kentland crowd is not sincere nor honest in their pretended dissatisfaction over the method of electing the judicial convention delegates in this ooanty, is a proposition that no fairminded person, familiar with the facts, will now pretend to deny. They simply seized npon tbe manner of our electing delegates as the most plausible exouse they could find to defeat the nomination and eleotion of a Jasper county Republican for the judgeship. For the truth of this statement the Newton county papers of last week, themselves furnish conclusive evidenoe. , There are two faots either of which fully exonerate Jasper county Repnblicans from any charge of unfairness towards Newton county in this matter. They are: Ist. The undisputed and indisputable fact that the ohairman of Newton oounty had full, explioit and written information of onr intended method of electiug delegates ELEVEN DAYS before he issued the oall for the jndioial convention. And that he was given fall fair opportunity by our chairman, Mr. Warner, to make objections if he bad any to make. 2nd. The aotion of Mr. Warner, after Newton county had raised its pretended objections to onr method of electing delegates, in making to Mr. Little, and with Mr. Hanley’s fall endorsement and consent, an offer to take a vote of preference for jndge in any or all of onr primary conventions, on Maroh 22nd, and in oase Mr. Cummings reoeived more votes in any precinct than Mr. Hanley, then Mr. Cummings should have the proportionate delegate rote of that precinct at tbe jndioial convention. These two faots. are the very essenoe of this whole matter; and unless the Newton ooanty people, or rather we should say, the Kentland politicians, can successfully deny or explain them, then they leave not a single prop for the Kentland side of this controversy to rest npon. Bat do the papers over there offer any denial or explanation of either of this faots? No. They do not and oan not. On the other hand they practically admit, not onlv their truth but their oonolusive force as well, by ignoring them.

What do our readers in this ooanty, and more especially what do onr readers in Newton connty think of this policy of suppressing the most vital facts of this controversy by the newspapers of Newton connty? And what do they think of the merits of a cause that leads them to resort to suoh unfair and dishonorable methods? Had the leaders over there been honest or fair in this matter, would they thus try to keep from the masses of the people of Newton ooanty these most vital faots of the whole controversy ? Tbe Kentland schemers simply started in to hare the jndgeahip by fair means or foal, and when they foand Jasper ooanty was solid for Hanley, they seized upon this matter of eleoting delegates as the most plausible means they could find to divide the Republicans, to inable them to elect a Democrat, and in carrying oat this scheme they will resort to any misrepresentation, personal abase and suppression of facts.