Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1911 — This is Only a Sample. [ARTICLE]

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Starke County Republican. John L. Kessler, the well known North Bend township farmer, was in Knox, Saturday. He had an experience recently that served to remind him of the dark days of 1893. John sold eight head of hogs, Thursday, to a Monterey stock-buyer, receiving for them a hundred, the eight hogs bringing him just SBB. Less than a year ago these same hogs would have brought Mr. Kessler just $l4B. Mr. Kessler’s loss is S6O, and he attributes it to the democratic party which has always been noted for reducing the price of farm products. Mr. Kessler lives on the Otto Wobith farm. Last fall he sold his own share of the wheat at 97 cents a bushel, but Mr. Wobith held his share until last month when he had to sell it at 84 cents a bushel. It will be hard to make Mr, Kessler or Mr. Wobith or a whole lot of other folks, for that matter, believe that the democratic party is not responsible for the loss they have been compelled to sustain. Mr. Kessler lost his all in the democratic panic of 1893, and he says he knows many a farmer who will go the same route he did then if present signs do not fail. It is a good deal as Lemuel Darrow, the democrat mayor of La-porte-said: “The democrats do well enough in local affairs, but when it comes to running this country they are a hopeless failure.” It is a frank, but honest admission.