Rensselaer Republican, Volume 25, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1893 — NOT WITHSTANDING THE [ARTICLE]

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Delphi Journal. The Lafayette Sunday Times isa Democratic newspaper and one of the Journal’s most valued exchanges. in the last issue of the paper the following appeared under the writings of “The Man About Town:” About teu o’clock last-might 1 made a visit to many of our mercantile houses, for the purpose of ascertaining what sort of a holiday ■business they had enjoyed. There was but one answer: “Splendid;” “way above our most sanguine expectations;” “a third larger than over before,” etc. The date the above applies tn v.s Saturday night, December 24, 1892, at ten o’clock. (1 McKinley bill hadbemi in operation since October, 1890. And the people of the country hs.3 jn«t declared that the country was goiog to the devil and that they wanted our present financial and tariff legislation revolutionized. Now the plain truth is that this holiday trade could not have been “splendid,” could not have exceeded “our most sanguine expectations,” could not have been “a third larger than ever before” if the condition of affairs were such as the Democratic papers declared during the recent campaigu. Observe that holiday business was “splendid,” that it “exceeded our most sanguine expectations,” that it was “a third larger than ever before” Notwithstanding The McKinley BUI.