People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1896 — A SOLDIER FOR BRYAN. [ARTICLE]

A SOLDIER FOR BRYAN.

Replying to the communication of A. A. Stuart, ex-member of the 17th lowa’ voluteers, in The Record of Sept. 14, I de sire to say that I am an ex-mem-ber of the 17th Illinois volunteer infantry, the first regiment mustered into the service in this state “For three years or during thr war,” and that I shall most certainly vote this fall for the ticket named by “H. A. M.,” ex-member of the 12th Wisconsin. And I shall do so because I fully “indorse the idea that the gold dollar has appreciated to double its rightful purchasing value.” I am the recipient of a pension for wounds received at Fort Donelson, and though I am otherwise disabled I will willingly forego my claim upon the government if thereby we may be saved from the blighting effects of British “sound money” theories. I have always heretofore voted the republican ticket straight, but, placing principle above party. I shall hereafter do my own thinking and vote my own convictions, and sneers cannot deter me. My record as a soldier is wide open for inspection.

A. F. GILBERT,

Peoria, 111., Sept. 17. *

Frank Kelly presents this office with a seeding peach of the Bryan quality and free silver size. It was grown on a four-year old tree, and was one of nine that collectively weighed five pounds, the largest measuring 104 inches in circumference and the smallest 94 inches. Our brother, B. L. Sayler, who is mentioned in last week’s Republican as claiming championship for his nine McKinley peaches that weighed an insignificant 4 pounds and 3 ounces, is entirely outclassed.