Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1898 — Why Vote For Mr. Major? [ARTICLE]

Why Vote For Mr. Major?

John F. Major, the democratic candidate for County Clerk, is a very nice man, and we have no word to say against him, but the candidate on the Republicen tioket is a very nice man too, and in no respect is he inferior in qualifications for the difficult duties of clerk, to Mr. Major, and in the matter of a thorough education, and there is no other office in the county in which a good education is so much needed, he is extra well qualified. Furthermore, those Republicans who are thinking of voting for Mr. Major because they know him personally and like him accordingly, should remember this, that it will not be well to go back on a good and deserving man in our own party for the sake of helping into offioe a man who does not need it. Mr* Major has always been a stiff, unyielding and active Democrat, and by virtue of those political qualities, he has*been libberally provided for. He had a good official position for years in the northern prison, under a Democratic state’government, and for four years, as a reward for his active Democratic services, he was postmaster at Remington. He is also now in possession of a prosperous mercantile business Evidently then, the Republican who votes for him for clerk, votes to take the offioe from a deserving man and a true and tried Republican, who does need it, and to give it to an uncompromising Democrat, who does not need it. Ponder these things well, Re-, publican voters, before you do so unwise and unnecessary a thing as to vote for John F. Major for county clerk.