Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1907 — It Wasn't Jasper County. [ARTICLE]

It Wasn't Jasper County.

The Indianapolis Sun says: A representative of one of the northern counties of the state before the tax board said the land was so poor that hardly anything can be raised on it He declares that they do raise a little rye and lots of Democrats, but they can’t raise an umbrella. He said thr t the land waa such a poor soil for Republicans that the candidate fdr state office of the party seldom venture into It.