Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

HOW SHALL I VOTE THIS FALL? ] Am 1 a Republican, Democrat or Populist? t Let me reason with myself and yon. Suppose for a moment lam a farmer and I own or rent land, ♦ j Five years ago I farmed 160 acres out west. Times were bad, crops Z were poor, my wheat brought ouly 40 cents a bushel at the farm * ’ and my corn only fH cents. It was cheaper to barn corn In the < , stove than to buy wooil or coal. I saved enough wheat for seed and < ’ - sold the rest, but didn’t get enough to pay tbe storekeeper what 1 J [ owed him. and could et no rfmre credit. 1 owed a big payment on < ► my farm in ciiiiicry. Thank heaven, the agent of the Harvester Company exiended the time on my note for another year. That < > saved my home and the lives of myself and family. j J That was under Cleveland’s Democratic Administration. < > Four years ago McKinley was nominated for President. It was ] [ a happy orneu for the tillers of the soil all over the country. i * In 1800 my crops were good. My wheat and corn, cattle and J | hogs brought good prices. < > 1 paid off the storekeeper, settled with the Harvester Company, J J took up the mortgage on the homestead and commenced to live. Another year and three more years have gone by. and I atn still J ) prosperous. So prosperous, In fact, that I have almost forgotten <> the hard times before William McKinley came te be President of J J the greatest Republic in the world. But I have net forgotten that < • I have a piano in t.ie bouse, that two boys have been fitted for col- ] | lege, that ray wife and daughters are well dressed, and that the old « > man blmself is taking life mighty easy. J J Prosperity has increased the size or my waistband, and 1 guess < > lam Just good enough Republican to vote once more for Major J | McKinley. .... _ ■ WHAT SAY. YOU ?

EUROPE FOR RRYAN. Americana will be pleased to leant that the French press has followed the lead of I,ondon Truth, and la solid for Bryan. Henri Rochefort, editor of l/lntransigeam. declared editorially on September 2lllh that if Mr. Bryan be elected the expanslon policy of Mr. McKinley will be struck from American politics low years to come. I.ihre Psrole goes further, saying : “ Tbe results in the elections In the - United states on the Oth of November Interest our future destiny. It i« for us that Bryan is Wurktas. Mi >e a criminal by Imperialism, McKinley conspires against France.” All true Americans should not* that Bryan Is wort.tng for the Interests of Europe—not «>r tbe United States.