Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1914 — Hon. William E. Nason, Who Will Speak at Chautauqua [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Hon. William E. Nason, Who Will Speak at Chautauqua

SENATOR MASON has served in both branches of the Illinois legislature and in both congress and all of the time during the past thirty-four years has been a recognized power in state and national politics. Froxo the day he entered the legislature on up to his service In the United States senate he has made one continuous fight against grafters, more modernly known as “Jackpottera.” Mr. Mason makes no claim to ora tory, yet the late Speaker Thomas B. Reed stated that the “World’s fair was located In the city of Chicago by a ten minutes’ speech made by Mason of Illinois,” and ex-Congressman Boutell, ex-minister to Switzerland, is nu thorlty for stating that the late Senator Hoar of Massachusetts said at a ban quet In Washington that the most effective speech he had heard in his twenty five years’ service In the senate was a speech made by Senator Mason. Senator Mason will appear on the Lincoln Chautauqua program in this city on the afternoon of the fourth day. The prelude will be played by the Royal Black Hussars Band. * '•Hr,

HON. WILLIAM E. MASON.