Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1906 — AS WE SAID ABOUT JOHN P. CARR. [ARTICLE]

AS WE SAID ABOUT JOHN P. CARR.

1 The following brief extract from the Fowler Leader’s column report of the late Republican district convention here bears oat our remark that Carr never says anything good -about Rensselaer nor any of its people, nor of anybody else, for that matter, unless he thijjks there it something in it for him. “Tuesday, at Rensselaer, Harry Marshall was elected chairman of the Republican organization for the 10th Indiana District. The services were held in the opera house. The stage decorations were old Roman classic in the simplicity. In the back ground were two rows of tobacco smoke representing Hoosier statesmens In the center was Kitt Sills, clad in his injun smile, leaning, on a card table without cover to which was nailed a printed badge* “For Chairman, Henry Marshall.” The chaigman spoke very nicely of the growth of this country from a third-rate power in 1860 to that of a first rate power in 1906. And recited without a blunder two or three paragraphs from Secretary Wilson’s last agricultural report. Following these observations John does say some good words about Judge Wiley’s speech. But they are easily to be explained, also. When the Judge lived in Fowler he met Carr on the street one day and told him if he ever published more dirt about him, he would just naturally lambast Jhe liverwurst out of him. Since then John has been very good to Judge.

There are two ways to make a snapping, snarling dog your friend. One is to give him plenty of bones to gnaw; the other to lick him plenty, or make him think you will. The latter howeter is the surer, and more lasting way of the two; as this Fowler case well illustrates.