Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 November 1898 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

When Major McKinley joins the “inmemorable caravan” eto., there will be a chance for men like Whitelaw Reid, in writing his epitaph, to say, “The cemeteries where lie buried the men who fought all the American wars from 1776 to 1898, do not contain as many heroes as this solitary grave.” In the United States, where every volunteer soldier is a sovereign oitizen, there is no reason under heaven why they should not be treated by the government with as much consideration as the officers. In war the rifle is of more consequence than the sword. The nations of the earth unstintedly praise the American nation for the way it oondnoted the war with Spain, and yet Whitelaw Reid says McKinley entered upon the w with “feelings of reluctance and detestation.” Admiral Schley is a Democrat, and that is the reason the administration has tried to suppress him, and has kept him from maintaining his plaoe on the n»val roll.