Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1908 — STRAUS GIVES REASONS [ARTICLE]

STRAUS GIVES REASONS

The New York Merchant and Philanthropist Declares Election of Bryan Means Business Prosperity. Nathan Straus, the great New York merchant and philanthropist, in announcing his reasons for supporting Mr. Bryan, said: H l feel sure that he will be elected, and I say, as a business man, one who Is as much interested perhaps as any. In the general prosperity of the country, ae one who la bound to feel personally any lack of prosperity among the masses, that I believe his election will be a benefit to all the country, and to all of the people. Those that talk otherwise, those that predict panic and disaster, as the result of the election of an honest man, chosen by an honest majority of the people, are narrow minded and short-sighted, or pretend to believe that which they know Is not true, or they are seeking to obscure the real and vital issues of the campaign. Mr. Bryan will make a safe, reliable, conscientious president, a president for all of the people, the rich and the poor, the big man and the little. He will represent the American people, not any class, and for that reason I shall work for him until election and vote for him on election day.”