Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1912 — CROPS AND POLITICS AS FOUND IN THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

CROPS AND POLITICS AS FOUND IN THE EAST.

L. S. Alter Attended Family Reunion and Found East Busy and Every Person Employed. Editors Republican: ’ j: I have seen in your paper several letters from the west and as; I have just returned from a 10 days’ visit in * the east It may be that some of my observations will prove of interest. Two of my children accompanied me to attend the annual reunion of the Alter family. It was not so well attended as common, owing to tbe fact that all the mills were running and everybody were busy. There were about 175 in attendance. One of tbe events was the meeting of six sisters, the youngest of whieh was 73 and the.oldest 85 years of age. As the conventions were, on during my visit I found everyone talking politics and Thud the pleasure of talking with prominent politicians of Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania, members of tbe legislature, editors and other prominent men. The general opinion seems to be that it is not safe to make a change of administration, as business is good, in fact it Was never better and the high cost of living is gradually being reduced. ■, J[ found a great many sore about the action of both conventions. Pennsylvania was* strong for “Teddy” and the people of that state were a little sore, but they have no complaint at the prevailing conditions and will doubtless give Taft their support. They are not enthusiastic for Wilson and “Our Tom,” the “maker of a constitutions while you wait,” is not liked at ail. So it is an equal standoff that will leave the parties about as they were before, with a few additional votes for the sideshows, such as the labor and prohibition parties. In Pennsylvania agriculture is a secondary matter. Mining and manufacturing are the chier industries. Pittsburg has improved wonderfully in the last decade; several business blocks from 20 to 26 stories high have been built. The sum of $4,000,000 was recently voted to improve the streets of the great mining city. Factories are running night and day with a full force of hands. Wages are good and contentment seemed to be general. In Ohio crops are fair, but scarcely up to Jasper county, being about a week later than here. -Apples were scarce all along the entire route. I have no doubt that men are going to consider their prosperity a good while before they vote to change It Prejudices that maintained before the convention at Chicago should be put aside in the interest of no individual buthecanseof theeffect that to publican success means to our national * prosperity that from my observation seems to be general with the farm, the factory, the mine and the people Who work in them. Respecfully, LEWIS S. ALTER! Goodland, In’d., July 8, 1912,