Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — False Prophet, Too. [ARTICLE]

False Prophet, Too.

i t On the day after the election |of 1896 Parks Martin, chair- \ man then and now of the Bry- { unite state committee, made the | claim that Bryan had carried I the state by 15.01)0 to 18,000, j and this with the returns then t indicating a reversed condition las was later confirmed. Mr. * Martin’s long suit is irp, rnak- : ing claims; not cue of whjen j has ever been verified, and his j idle ’ boastings < f the present. I serve only to amuse those Ivei publicans acquainted with his :record.