Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 145, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1913 — Awful, If True. [ARTICLE]

Awful, If True.

President Wilson “doller up” in white duck last Saturday and went out to play golf at the aristocratic Chevychase course. And plain Tom Marshall and common Billy Bryan are wearing plug hats! These are certainly sad sights for us trusting rubes, and go to prove that not even the best of our champeens can withstand the lure of Washington high life—Fort Wayne News. There should be an official investigation of the facts alleged in the above paragraph. If the facts are as alleged the plain pee-pul, meaning us, have been betrayed. There was reason for suspecting that Mr. Wilson was a high brow plute, accustomed to sporting about in white flannels. The plain pee-pul will never forgive him* for. being caught in a bath tub, in the middle of the afternoon, when news of his nomination reached him. But to have jt said that those champions of the plain pee-pul, Tom Marshall and William Jennings Bryan, are wearing silk hats is too much. If the charge made against them is true it will seem that no champion of the pee-pul can stand the acid test and hold true to his preaching against the temptations of Wash-ington-Lafayette Journal.