Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1897 — Democracy Undefiled. [ARTICLE]

Democracy Undefiled.

“Everybody seems to be on an equality in Klondike,” said the shoe clerk boarder. “Yes,” said the cheerful idiot, “one man can cut as much ice as another up there.”—lndianapolis Journal.

Labor Is one of the great elements of society—the great, substantial Interest on which we will stand.—Daniel Webster.

By actual count 10,000 people b«6iir«H| July 1 and Aug. 28 left the Pacific for the gold fields of Alaska and thd Klondike region. j

Last year, in our commercial relations with Great Britain, the balance of trade in our favor was greater than in any previous year in history. The Ohio counties in which Mr. Bryan spoke in the late campaign increased their Republican majorities 997 votes over those of last year. The old State of Maryland has gotten a long way from the ‘‘solid South.” Time was when she was counted a charter member of that organization. Mr. Bryan kept up his calamity cry in Ohio this year despite the fact that the October statement of the national, banks of the country showed that the individual deposits in the national banks were §253,000,000 in excess of those of one year ago. Bradstreet’s Review says that in spite of the less active trade of October, due to yellow-fever scares, quarantines, etc., the aggregate total for that month was greater than •even September’s immense total, marking the heaviest month’s total since January, 1893. It may be remembered that Mr. Bryan, on a cool October day, stated that the first six months of McKinley’s administration was the most disastrous in the history of the country. Mr. Bryan boastingly announced in his Ohio speeches that he had come to Ohio to “bury Mark Hanna.” This sounded very 1 funny to the audience at the time, but the laugh was on the other side when it was discovered after the election that th«? counties in which he spoke increased their Republican majorities about one thousand votes over last year. It was another case of J “he laughs best who laughs last.”