Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1912 — Why They Remained. [ARTICLE]

Why They Remained.

“I held the audience spellbound for more than an hour,” boasted the campaign speaker. "Pshaw," replied a member of the local committee, "it wasn’t your talking that made the people stay. We had advertised that Billy Smiggley would play a cornet solo after you got through, but for some reason he failed to show up."