Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 November 1916 — NEWS OF RECENT ELECTION [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF RECENT ELECTION

(By B. Vandercar) One thing that the crowned heads of Europe can’t understand is why it is that the defeated party doesn’t “start something.” No matter how warm the campaign may be. when the people through the ballot box call a man to the Presidency, they all get behind him. They cease for the time being to be partisans and line up as Americans. When the election is over and the results fully known, let some fellowin Europe that wears e pewter hat on his head "start something” and he will learn that the President wields the power of 100,000,000 people. When Mr. Taft gave up the Presidency to Wilson he said, “We are all behind you.” Oh, that Argentine corn joke. A few of the cub politicians here took it serious. I Will some one break the news to j Albert Jeremiah Beveridge that Mary of the vine-clad cottage voted for Wilson. Tuesday evening the news that , came in wag decidedly of the ‘ Hughes type and indicated that he i had carried about seventy-eight states and Nantucket. We are of the opinion that old man Tucket voted for Hughes, but Nan Tucket, his wife, supported Wilson. A few of our Republican friends done a little election celebrating Tuesday evening. They are now j new converts to the watchful waiting policy. By their actions they 'said that they thanked God that they were not like other men, not even like the poor Democrats. To those who bet and lost we wish to say, never bet an another man’s game. Whittle from you and you will not cut you. According to the election news Tuesday evening the number of voters in the United States was over 1,000,000,000. When they carried Vermont by about 30,000 we became wise to the joke. When T. R. heard the news Tuesday evening he cried “Bully for my ‘skin ’em alive’ speeches.” The neOple have displayed real patriotism. I Yes, the President can teach school when he leaves the Presidency, but according to indications he will not begin for a few days.