Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — Sentiment Changing. [ARTICLE]

Sentiment Changing.

Former Governor E. W. Hocb, of Kansas, in a public statement made last week, says: “Americans are fair people. The more they study the administration of President Taft the more they will Ilk# it. Between now and November they will give consideration to questions involved in this campaign. 1 look for an increasing tide of public opinion favorable to Mr. Taft. During my travels as a lecturer I have found this tide already setting in. “Taft has never had a square deal, especially from the one who talks the most about this great virtue. I believe the American people will practice what the alleged champion of this doctrine so vociferously preached and they will indorse Mr. Taft’s administration as it deserves to be. “This campaign will be 'a repetition of the one in 1896. If the election that year had occurred thirty or sixty days after the convention Mr. Bryan would have been elected. But the people got down to thinking then, as they will this time.’’ Most of the surrounding counties are holding their annual teachers’ institutes this week. Contrary to previous years, when institutes were held during the last week of August, Superintendent Ernest Lamson has deferred the date of the institute this year to October 7th to 11th. The reasons for doing hie are to give new teachers the opportunity to gain a few weeks’ practical experience in teaching and to come in contact with the problems that arise in the school rooms. In this way it is believed that they will be able to give more intelligent attention. Many teachers have not returned from normal schools and it would have been impossible for them to attend had the institute been held this week. Thi3 change is made in the nature of an experiment but will probably become permanent as it has proven successful in many counties which have tried it in previous years. It seems to meet the approval of the teachers and no doubt it will with the students, as they will gain a few days vacationEzra Fix was over from Boswell today to close a deal for the sale of his quarter section in Hanging Grove township, Willis A. Lutz engineered the sale and William L. Seltzer is the buyer.- The price paid was $75 per acre. Mr. Fix owned the farm for three years, having bought it of Frank Ham in 1909 for $65 per acre. The new owneVjwill pay the (fitch assessments. Mr. Fix has a farm near Boswell, which he had priced at S3OO per acre but be took it off the market the other d£y when a farm near that town sold for $2lO per acre. If a fellow don’t want to sell his farm in these good republican times he had better not put a price on ti. Jasper county farm land has doubled and trebled in price during the sixteen years of republican rule and a big lot of this increase has taken place during the administration of President Taft , \ f ' George Johnson is about again after a sickness that confined him to his home for about two weeks. He had a severe cake of lumbago.-