Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1916 — ANYTHING FOR THE JOB [ARTICLE]

ANYTHING FOR THE JOB

The Republican party, in its efforts to wrest the government from the hands of the Democrats, has piled on the proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back.’’ Placards of every description have been posted over the nation in an attempt to help their dying cause. One of the later ones, which is really amusing to the people, reads: “Protect your job. Choose Hughes." Isn’t that about the limit? \\ r ill any man worthy of the name American let his vote on Tuesday be influenced by such petty nonsense and intrique as such a state ment implies?

If a man through ability and courageous conduct had built up a great institution that furnished you with plenty of work at wages better than you had ever before known, would you vote to displace that man for one w'ho could promise you nothing more than a continuance in the same place? This is a progressive age and the present-day people are progressive. The Republican party was in povrer for nearly fifty years, yet in no four years can they point to a record of achievement and progress that will in the least compare with the four yearg now drawing to an end. The American people are like one great family, quite content to leave well enough alone, else the Republican party would surely not have been continued in power so long. Rut now that it has been retired and the people have lived and prospered as never before under a Democratic administration, are they going to retire it in order to gratify a whim of the “lame ducks?” That would certainly be as unAmerican as anything we can' think of, and is nothin the least expected of the jury composed -of the electorate of these United States. The people saisfied and will leave well enough alone.