Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — The Hollanders are in Line. [ARTICLE]

The Hollanders are in Line.

One of the best meetings of the campaign so far, was that held at DeMotte last Friday night, where the orator spoke in the Hollander language to practically the entire body of Hollander voters in Keener township. It was an excellent speech, and the way it was received by the auditors shows that the Hollanders in Keener are still true and firm Republicans and will vote this year as always. An agent of the Democrats, who has been slipping around in Keener iu a vain attempt to win the Hollanders from their party allegiance, was at the meeting and was impolite enough to make repeated attempts at interrupting the speaker. Finally the latter told the interrupter to sit down, and if he could not be a Republican to at least be a gentleman, and that squelched him. Col. F. L. Delcar, the speaker of the evening, lives at Los Angelos, Cal. Though a Hollander born, he is an American of Americans for patriotism and publjo spirit. He is also a man of many great experiences. He served all through the civil war in the Union army Passed about IQ years in Japan organizing and drilling the Japanese army and commanded a regiment in the Spanish war. His learning is on a par with his patriotism and the number oE languages he speaks fluently we would net undertake to say. He is making speeches every day and will continue to do so until the end of the campaign; his last speech will be at San Francisco the night before the election.