Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1894 — Mr. Brookshire’s Experrience. [ARTICLE]

Mr. Brookshire’s Experrience.

Washington special, Nov. 19. “I am not superstitious,” said Congressman Brookshire, “but th u e is an old character living in th ■ town of Crawfordsville, Ind., wh m we call Aunt Jane. Three -mo iths before election she told me that I would be defeated, although she had been a life long friend of mine and was anxious to see me elected. She has a strangely prophetic vision, and is consulted frequently by persons anxious to locate articles which have been lost er stolen, and she is credited with having done some effective work in this line. I thought I knew more ab »ut the politic-, of the Eighth In-, i diana district than Aunt Jane when she predicted my defeat, but subsequent events proved my error. Aunt Jane predicted that the Democratic defeat would be general this year, but held out some encouragement to us f»r two years hence. ‘All oi you defeated Democratic candidates will not be returned to Congress in but a large number o* you will get back,’ said she.