Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Conn’s Conversion. [ARTICLE]

Conn’s Conversion.

Carroll County Citizen: Republican papers throughout the state are parading the statement of Hon. C. G. Conn, the Elkhart horn manufacturer and former democrat, who says he will support McKinley. As Conn is the only democrat in the state who has changed his views the republican press and speakers are making his “conversion” a “paramount issue” in this state, but unfortunately for Mr. Conn, the Journal this week in its “McKinley prosperity” the “Old Flag and Philippine swag” department, inadvertently perhaps, but most effectually, reveals the cat in the meal tub as follows: “Indiana is furnishing all the musical instruments used by regimental bands in the Philippines, the product of the Conn factory at Elkhart. The factory is now running to its capacity to keep pace with the government orders.” There is the whole thing in a nut shell. Ex-Congressman Conn has swapped a prosperity statement for government orders. There also seems to be a method in the deal. Conn’s prosperity statement, as it appears in the Journal, occupies 63 lines. There is, according to government reports 63,000 U. 8. soldiers in the Philippines. Each regiment of 1,000 men usually has a regimental band. The McKinley-pros-perity and the band manufacturer have just about traded “even up,” one line of prosperity twaddle for one band order and Conn has the best of the deal. Whatever Mr, Conn may say of prosperity will cut no figure. The voters themselves know just how prosperous they are without being informed by wealthy manufacturers who are made prosperous by government orders. After Mr. Conn’s screed has had its run it would be in order to call on the government contractor for armor plate in exchange for fat contracts; the Studebakers, who are rushed with orders from the government for army wagons, and finally the people who pay the bills which tell their story at the polls in November.

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