Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Som-bUy suggests that, as a last remit to try the full dinner pail argument on Aguinaldo. Lord Salisbury has extended his congratulations to the nation for having defeated Mr, Bryan. The British can always be relied upon to be needlessly offensive. Now we will liave the ship subsidy steal, which will take SO,000:090 a year for 20 years out of the pockets of the taxpayers and hand is over to the shipping trust ns a bonus. Now that the election is over, Secretary Long can agree to the demands of the armor innkers and grant them all they asked, exorbitant as li > once denounced their demand- to be.. Senator Hamm is being boomed for the Presidency in 1004, but of course In 1 will not be nominated. No President has ever yet been given a third term, and the country is not likely to begin with Mark. Of course. Great Britain is pleased with the result of the election In the first place, she is glad to depress silver and buy it cheap. In the second place, she Is glad to have the United States stand besid ■ her in her policy of trampling upon weak peoples. Governor. Mount has issued his thanksgiving proclamation,setting apart Thursday. 20th inst. ns a special o.‘c ision for a bird and a cold bottle. He recounts a multitude .of blessings, which, in his judgment, have descended upon the peep'-v. but omits all reference to the r 'cent election. In a decision rendered twenty years ag > the supreme court held that con-li i tionnl amendments, to carry, in ait receive a majority of all the votes cast. This being the case, the two amendments voted upon at the late election failed of ratification by the people, as they did not receive a majority of the vote cast.

The election was lost to the Democrats by the Republican threats to bring on a panic if Bryan was elected. Many men who voted for McKinley did so most reluctantly because they were afraid that a Democratic triumph might imperil their jobs. That is the whole secret of the landslide. Four years ago, the leading events thnt have characterized McKinley’s administration and the present policies of the Republican party were absolutely undreamed of. Is it not nt least possible that four years more of unrestrained power will le id to fresh events and fresh policies thnt are undreamed of and repugnant to-day? The newspapers state that as soon as McKinley’s re-election was nssured the stock of that gigantic trust, the Standard Oil Company, rts « a number of points, and that John D. Rockefeller, the king bee of the trust swooped in 27,0 K),(H)0. We haven’t heard of any Jasper county farmer having made quite ns much as this by reus m of any rise in the price of c >rn, oats, hogs or any other farm products. Politics is a funny game, and this year the Democrats were—in the lungui ge of the esoteric society —“up against it.’’ It wasn’t their year to win. There is no reason, but the fact is here big, cold, hard anti abidin r. And the thing to do is just to l-t it go without r fining on ho v hard they did it; tell them they certainly did do it, good and plenty, and dismiss the subject. Don’t apologize. Don’t regret anything. Don’t let tlx merry oppositi in fill you with east wind labelled “reasons.’’ They are a goo l ’ deal more surprised than yo i arc. Ami above all things, don't c mfess you were wrong. For y»u were not.— Lafayett} Journ d.