Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1912 — ARE YOU A GOOD GUESSER? [ARTICLE]

ARE YOU A GOOD GUESSER?

Name States That Roosevelt Will Carry and Get a Cash PresentHearing that the bolters from the Taft convention were going to carry a number of states' on November 5, 1912, it caused me to come to this conclusion: I will divide the states into four sections—the Southern; the Eastern, as far west as Ohio; the Northern, including Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, lowa, Minnesota, and the rest as Western states. I have twenty dollars, five dollars to a section, that the bodters in Marion tp., Jasper county, Ind., can not name one in each section where Roosevelt will get all of the electors from the states named, without fusion or agreement that may give Roosevelt the electors from said state.

Now, this proposition is on the square, I have not made a guess with any person, for any amount, nor do I ever expect to again, since McCoy got all my change and my calves, but I shall make you a present of twenty dollars if Roosevelt gets all of the electors in the four sections above named. If three, fifteen; if two, ten; if one, five dbllars. Now, you can see that one guess is all. So you Roosevelt followers, male and female, get together and agree upon the four states, one in each section named above. All guesses to be registered with the Jasper County Democrat. I shall give plenty of time to come to a conclusion. It will be on or before Sept. 15, 1912. The twenty dollars will be placed in the hands of the editor of The Jasper County Democrat next Saturday, Sept. 7, 1912. The guessing, if you so desire, wilffi be secret, till after the election. W. H. RITCHEY.