Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1906 — The Hammond News Says Nanghty Things. [ARTICLE]

The Hammond News Says Nanghty Things.

And now comes the Hamt&oud News, and says naughty things about Rensselaer, aud all because i we have recenty taken occasion to cite Hammond as a pertinent example of what real good towns ought not to be. The News says, .for instance, that traveling men says there i>'nt a faster little town Tuth.e_state than Rensselaer. That poliefT and oiher gambling games are always ou tap and anything yon want in the booze line ou Sure days. Ami the News winds up with the .usual the -larsteA banker, se lreartlcss that lie robbed the widow of her bread and the helpless babe, of it very pap. Verily. Reus-elaer has it naughty people, as what place does not? xiut they keep a little ’shady heye and don’t run the whole town, as the saloons and other resoits did Ilaimmond, until Gov. Hanly clap p d the ltd down there, and there by seems toltaveincurred the implacable hostility of all the papers and a large part of the population, of that city. As to the alleged facilities for drinks here ou Su inlays, our citizens generally do not know' of any such conditions, and would get the courts busy pretty quick, if they learned of them. We still have a few places where t links can be had on week days though, and the liustliug citizens of

Hammond, especially the politicians pfboth parties, never seem to need any directions as to where to go’to find them, when they come here, but seem to have an iustiuetive knowledge of just where to head for. Regarding our busted bauker, we cau truly say that for several years before he failed Tom was solider at Hammond more than he was at home, and no papers praised “the genial whole-soul-ed Tom McCoy’’ more freely nor fulsomely than those of Hammoud and especially, if we remember right, the Hammond News.