Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1903 — Letter to Mr. G E. Murray. [ARTICLE]

Letter to Mr. G E. Murray.

The Indianapolis News publishes the result of a poll of 45 cities in thia state to ascertain the feeling of the representative people of the state on the proposition to strike out the blanket remonstrance feature of the Nicholson taw. In all 2,158 voters were interviewed, and of these 1,646 were against the change, and 512 were in favor of it.

“Segregate” is the great word with the big newspapers now. It got its vogue a little while ago when Dr. Harper, high priest of the temple of the great god Standard Oil, and Rockefeller its propbet, otherwise the Chicago University, "segregated” his girl students, his ••co-eds” so called, from the male students. In that case it was thought best to segregate on account of their mutual tendency to flirtegate. The latest case of segregation is said to be the intention of the states of Montana and North Dakota to each segregate a part of their territory, and then let the two segregated pieces aggregate themselves' into a new state to be named Montagu. But if they cant find a more suitable and more American name than that for the new aggregation, made out of the two segregations they had better not segregate at all.

Congressman Oru tn packer’s state personal organ, the Indianapolis Sentinel, and Lis home personal organ, ths Valparaiso Messenger, both Democratic, have both been industriouly peddling the etatechosen Mr. Crnmpaoker as his special mouth piece in the house, to defend the president’s action in closing the Indianola postoffice. We never gave the report any credence, and now those papers admit their .mistake, as per the following from Tuesday’s Valparaiso Messenger: Washington special to the Indianapolis Sentinel: Representative Crumpacker says that the report that be intends to speak in defense of President Rooeevelt’s action in the Indianola postoffice affair is a mistake. “As far as I know,” he said, “there will be no occasion for speeches. The whole purpose of my resolution was to get the correspondence before the house, and, incidentally, before the country.”

Rensselaer, Ind. Dear Sir: You know all about . shoes. How many oustomeis have you who know anything about ,em? You ba-e bought and sold shoes for years, and have learned what you know by your customers' liking4mesort,auJ not liking another. They find out by wearing ’em. So with" paint; but we go deeper. We are 145 years old in the business; and we make, not buy—we make a good deal of paint. We paint a good share of the railroad and steamer property in the United States, and may as well paint the private property. Yours as well as anybody else’s. Devoe Ready Paint is your paint. Costs half as much as lead and oil, because it wears twice as long. 7 Yours truly'

F.W. DEVOE & Co.