Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1916 — TO LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE [ARTICLE]

TO LET WELL ENOUGH ALONE

A reporter for The Democrat was strolling about the city last Sunday when we chanced to meet a person similarly employed. A conversation ■was started and before long the question of politics was reached. The gentleman did not know us, nor did we know him, and without any solicitation whatsoever he said that for the past twenty years he had voted nothing but the Prohibition ticket; that he felt he should do so again this year, but the situation was so critical and President Wilson had proven himself so amply competent that he felt it to be the duty of every loyal American to stand by him and vote to retain him In the White House, which he intended to do. And where you will find one person who announces his intentions, you will find a great many more ■who do not. This election is going to be decided by the great mass of thinking voters, who are not going about proclaiming their thoughts and who are not to be misled by the office-hungry Republicans. The American people are not anxious for a change in administration; they are not to be influenced by assertions of “what will happen when the war ends.’’ This country and its people were never more prosperous or contented, and they are not asking for a change. Chicago Republican politicians declare, says the Chicago Sunday Herald, that Hughes and Fairbanks are lagging far behind the Illinois state ticket, and say that estimates of some of the most seasoned warhorses downstate were that the national ticket may run 75,000 to 100,000 votes behind the state ticket. ■ ■ - ■■