Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1909 — One Editor Closes the Political Salve Box. [ARTICLE]

One Editor Closes the Political Salve Box.

Hartford City Times-Gazette. The Times-Gazette will inaugurate a new policy this year as to political announcements. * It has been the custom heretofore to give an extensive writeup to each person who announced himself in its columns asking for a nomination. Along with this announcement has come the request “you will give me a write up, won’t you?” and the request has usually been granted. A number of persons have been termed capable and honest candidates who in no way filled the bill. Persons smiled when they read the paid advertisements telling how great and good they were. The TimesGazette wHI no longer practice this game of politics. It will reserve the right to tell its readers the truth about all candidates. It will accept all announcements, but an announcement does not mean that it will slobber over a candidate who is in no way qualified to fill the position to which he aspires. These candidates who are good men and honest citizens will receive the praise of this paper free of charge. This paper will take no part in the selection of nominees in either party, but it reserves the right to tell the truth about any candidate on any ticket. W. C. Ball, of the board of trustees of the Indiana boys’ school at Plainfield, reports the number of inmates now as 680, which is the largest ever' confined at the institution.