People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — Republican Rensselaer Rally. [ARTICLE]

Republican Rensselaer Rally.

The republican gold bugs have at last exhausted their rescources and shown their desperation. Never in the history of Jasper county politics has the republican party been driven to such desperate straits. Horses and wagons drafted into service and filled with women and children to swell the crowd- Wagons covered with bunting and flags, brass bands and drum corps, horses and mules formed the great body of the delegations.— It is fortunate for the country that all the mules cannot vote. The opinion of one who has had experience in estimating processions is that the number of voters in the Bryan procession Friday night outnumbered those in the McKinley procession Saturday. The display was a desperate effort to keep up the courage of the few remaining republicans till after the election. The Friday night procession was composed of Jasper courity voters, the McKinley procession on Saturday was made up of men imported from other parts of the state. It is a notorious fact that free trains weie run into Rensselaer from Medaryville, Monon, Francisville and other points which greatly augmented the crowd and added to the display, without which the Bryan display on Friday would have far excelled it.