Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 March 1910 — ODD ELECTION SIGNS. [ARTICLE]

ODD ELECTION SIGNS.

The Signa Are la Washington, the Elections Elsewhere. "Of course we don't have any elections of our own,” said a man from Washington, “but we have election intimations, if I may call them that, which can’t be duplicated anywhere else in the country. “You see, when we Washingtonians want to vote we’ve got to do it somewhere else, and as most of us have a lingering fondness for the franchise We are pretty likely to hang on to a residence somewhere outside the District. “We especially like to do it because It makes us feel as if we had some Cort of weapon to Sourish before the ♦bserving eyes of the politicians who may have something to say about our hold on our jobs, and when the time comes to go home to vote we visibly <well with importance. "Naturally a national election is the one that catches us all at once, and it is then that the intimations I spoke of do most abound. The papers are full of advertisements of loans for election expenses. Department clerks can be accommodated with sums covering their railway fare, new clothes for the trip and a substantial margin over and above necessary items. The interest is a bit high, but a clerk who is pining to go back home to splurge a bit is willing to mortgage his resources for the pleasure. • "These offers of loans fill columns of the daily papers. Alongside of them are other advertisements, all turning on the one theme, the election. ‘Buy yourself a new suit to go home and vote ini’ The grammar is a bit off, but the prices are asserted to be all right. “In the shop windows there are dozens of election placards: ’Just the hat to wear when you go home to vote,’ ‘Specials in suit cases for the election,’ “Take a souvenir hat pin to your best girl when you go home to vote.’ ‘Swell suit for the election, only $1 a week,’ and in a shoe store window, Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching—home to vote; wear ’s ■hoes and you won’t get sore feet!* "The railroads offer special rates to voters, and so it goes. You won’t find anything like it in any other town.”— New York Sun.