Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1898 — NO NECESSITY FOR A CHANGE [ARTICLE]

NO NECESSITY FOR A CHANGE

With belief in sound government strengthened by love of country, never more wonderfully manifested than now since the days of the civil war, the people will vote to uphold the McKinley administration. But it should not be forgotten that the Republicans have in administering state affairs a superior claim on the confidence of a large majority. They have passed beneficient laws for the workingman; they have given the state an honest’apportionment of legislative and congressional districts; they have taken profitable fees and perquisites from state and county officers and turned them into the public treasuries where they belong; they have paid $2,008,000 on the state debt; they have thrown restrictions around public officers that make tjiem account for every cent of public money they expend; they save now the state $200,000 annually; they have done what the Democrats never dared to do and would never do, passed laws that took from officers of their own party affiliation money in fees that was before pocketed under color of law by the officers themselves. The finances of the state were never in better condition, the state debt was never lower, the state never richer and the people never happier than now. There is no necessity for a change, no demand for it. The people desire to let well enough alone and will therefore vote to continue the Republicans in office to sustain their national and state administrations.