Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1890 — THEY DON’T LIKE FARMERS. [ARTICLE]

THEY DON’T LIKE FARMERS.

••Kimmel lives on a farm near AN bion, and hasn’t any more idea of congressional life or its necessities or qualifications than he has hopes of an election.’’--Fort Wayne Journal. This extract is from the leading Democratic paper of the Twelfth district. The idea that a man can not be quail* fled for a seat in Congress because he lives on a farm is undemocratic and un-American. Beginning with George Washington and Thomae Jefferson, both of whom lived on farms, many great and good men fall in-that class. Mr. Charles A. O. McClellan (the Sentinel would call him “alphabet” McClellan), Democratic Congressman and candidate for re-election in that district, is a lawyer and banker. As he has reflected no credit on the district or State the people up there might do well to try a farmer. . -■■■ Section 2 of the new election law requires county commissioners to give notice of the boundaries of precincts and of the voting places therein by at | least one publication in one Republi* 1 can and one Democratic newspaper, at | least pne month before the election, ' and by posting notices thereof in four of the most-public places in each precinct. It is important that this pro. vision of the law be complied with, and It should be done before Oct. 4.