Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Political Advertising. [ARTICLE]

Political Advertising.

Politicians today more fully appreciate the value of newspaper advertising in winning votes or creating public sentiment than at any time in the history of the country. They have about concluded that the money that was formerly employed in barbecues, torchlight processions and numerous mass meetings can be more profitably employed in presenting the issues of the campaign and the claims of the candidates in brief, well-constructed articles in the advertising columns of the daily newspapers.—Editor and Publisher.