Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The books won’t be opened." The flag still waves over the SultUTTof- Sulu. By the way, how did Grover Cleveland and Tom Reed vote. A boom for Hanna for president in 1900 has b?en started in Ohio. The defeated, candidates can now console themselves with the reflection that ’tis better to have run and lost than never to have min at all. We never did believe that Wooley would__ win, anyhow, although he did work up an immense amount of enthusiasm, considering that he had nothing but cold water to do it on. Somebody has discovered that the abundance of hair possessed by the yo.iu ' man Absalom proves him to h ive been a populist. Anyway, he was a manly fellow who believed in standing up for his sister. William -I Bryan and the true principles of government advocated by him will live in the hearts of the Atm rican people long after Mark Hnnr.a and the trust magnates have crumbled to dust and their names are forgotten fn American history. Andrew (A rnegie, although a republican, makes a most sensible statement in the following remark concern iliir the democratic party since the election: “Next to a strong, worthy party in power comes one equally so in opposition. The cotin ry can never be safe until it has this.’’ Within a very few days, it is probabli-: li.u Mr. Jones who Jias looked up >n his next door neighbor Mr. Smith as an anarchist and a double-dyed traitor because he differed from him in politics will begin to revise his ideas and to wonder whether Smith isn’t a pretty d •cent fellow after all. The Democrat will still continue business at the old stand as a fearless champion of the people. The resul of the election makes no difference whatever as to its future. It has become a permanent fixutre in Jasper county and its popularity among the people other than the spoilsmen continues to gr j v. Two dollars a head, the price sarcastically fixed by Tom Reed as the cost of buying “yellow bellies” no longer begins tocoverthe case. Th<- quartermaster-general’s report ju-t i -sued, places the cost of transport to and from the Philippines at some $13,000,000, and there are half a dozen other army bureaus with even larger expenses yet to be heard from. The reffnlt of the election in Jasper county last Tuesday showed that a majority of the voters of the c< vi ity were opposed to an investigation of the county records and a recovery of the t housands of dollars that Ims been illegally paid out of the county treasury during the past few, years. This large sum is now gone forever. The decision of the voters anil taxpayer, in this matter which had been so thoroughly exposed and could not he successfully denied, ii cerlai ly to be regretted. In thinking it over we are reminded more son rbly than ever of that famous remark of the late P. T. Barnum The Rensselaer Journal claims “to have it from democratic sources” that Bryan was paid S3OO for his speech at Rensselaer recently. This lie about Mr. Bryan being paid for his campaign speeches has been so thoroughly refuted that it seems strange that anyone would be foolish enough to repeat it. Mr. Bryan was not paid one penny for his Rensselaer speech and neither was there any request or mention of pay whatever. The re- ] üblicans have bacome so imbued *v ith the idea that no man can be a patriot unless there are dollars in it, that we presume they will n< ver outgrow this fallacy as a] plied to democrats.