Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 December 1905 — PRECISELY AS ADVERTISED. [ARTICLE]

PRECISELY AS ADVERTISED.

The conditions regarding The Democrat’s Popularity Contest will be carried out precisely- as advertised. The piano is here — now on exhibition at Rowles & Parker’s dry goods store where it may be seen by interested parties —and it is paid for. Some organization is going to get it absolutely free —as a Christmas gift from The Democrat —and that organization will be the one that receives the most votes as set out in the 3-column advertisement elsewhere in this paper. The Democrat has no choice in this matter —it can not have —and no matter what organization has received the most votes at 6 p. m., Thursday, Dec. 21, that organization may rest assured that it will be awarded the instrument. Every vote will be placed to the credit of the organization as directed by the party handing them in, and in no case will we try to influence a single vote. It is nothing to us who gets it —it goes to some organization absolutely free and that every vote truly expresses the desire of the subscriber and is fairly counted is all the interest we have in the matter. The object of giving away this splendid instrument free gratis is to extend the circulation of The Democrat. We don’t expect to make a penny out pf it—in fsct, we shall lose money, at least on the first year’s subscriptions. But we expect to get those subscribers secured through this contest bo interested, by giving them one of the best county papers they ever read, that 90 per cent of them will stay with us year after year.