Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1908 — REPUBLICANS HOWL CALAMW [ARTICLE]

REPUBLICANS HOWL CALAMW

leek to Destroy Public Conflttaace ia Futile Effort to Defeat Bryan. Facing Inevitable defeat and with a full knowledge of the fact, that Bryan’s election is as certain as anything reasonably can be in politics, the Re-

publicans have been forced to resort to the last refuge of political cowards —to the calamity howl. They are now engaged in telling the country that panic and ruin will follow the election of Mr. Bryan. Instead of being patriotic citizens anxious to restore business confidence —a confidence which has been lost under a Republican administration—to subserve their own political selfish purposes they are vainly endeavoring to prolong the present business depression. The question naturally suggests itself: Why is It necessary to restore confidence? Why Is It necessary to bring back business prosperity? What has become of confidence, what has become of prosperity? Both, under a Republican administration, have disappeared. Why Is another Republican administration necessary to Insure a return of confidence find prosperity? The very same men who, today, are going about the country still further destroying confidence by preaching calamity, are the men, who, four years ago said that the Republican party must be successful in order that there might be prosperity. The Republican party was successful, but instead of bringing prosperity it brought panic, business depression and commercial stagnation. Whatever may be said of the present panic, it cannot be denied that it is a Republican panic. The Republican party Is in full possession of the government and must accept the responsibility. How, then, can a continuation of the Republican party in power cure the evils from which the business community and the laboring man now suffer? Let the Republicans howl about their own panic, and not make false predictions about what will happen under a Democratic administration. They predicted prosperity four years ago, and proven false prophets. Why, then, should any sane man accept their premonitions now when they say that Bryan's election would bring business troubles. Business troubles are already here. What business men want is a cure for them, not a prolongation of the disease by the same sort of treatment which has produced the ailment. Because business men and laboring men both know that a Republican administration has produced panic, theywill not be deceived again by these false cries of Republican calamity how]ers. They know that William Jennings Bryan is an honest man; they know that he will give the public an honest administration. They know that the calamity howl is for the sole purpose of deception.