Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

If ELECTION UW IMS BEEN CIHNGEO: DO YOU KNOW HOW TO VOTE?READ CAREFULLY THE INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS. Democratic Ticket. Republican Ticket. Prohibition Ticket. For Presidetial -Kl.ecto.rs-a trLarge.- For T-residential Kloctors-at-Large, For Presidential KTectors-at-Larcß* DEtf. KEP. PROHI. ALLEN ZOLLAHS. HUGH 11. lIANNA. FUGARD W. CLARK. _____— 4 PEM. NICHOLAS CORNET. REP. CHARLES W. MILLER. PROHI. HENRY THOMSON. ___J r n Difejrlct Electors. ' District Electors. District Electors. — ■ f [First District,] [First District,] [First District,] PEM. KEP. PROm. •EDWARD I*. ItICHARDftQN, MARTIN XV. FIELDS. ARRAU A M COLE.

First. You must get your ballot urnl tlie blue pencil of the polling, clerks m the election room. Second. If you want to vote a straight ticket make a cross, thus X, within tlie large circle at the head of the ticket containing the device of tlie party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket, yo\i must .not make a cross in the large circle containing the device of your party, hut you must make a cross, thus X, on the small square to the left of tlie name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote, on whatever list of candidates it may be. If tlie large circle at the head of the ticket is marked, and the ballot is marked at any other place, it is void and can not he counted, unless there he no candidate for some otfice in tlie list printed under such marked uevice, in which case you may indicate your choice for such office by making a cross, thus X, on the square to the left of the name of any candidate for su£h office on any other list. Tlie cross must he placed within or on the circle or square or the ballot is void and can not be counted. Third.* Do not mutilate your ballot, or mark it either by scratching a name off or writing one on, or in any other way, except by marking in the circle or ou the squares as before mentioned,

LABOR COMPARISONS

What Are the Costs of Living and the Rewards of Work? It is a part of the political demagogue to appeal to the prejudices aud passions of the laboring man and if possible make him believe that he of all men is the most miserable. Just, now the Bryauites are trying to make the laboring men discontented in order that they may vote for a change. They- say that the wage earners are not receiving their just share of the prosperity and that what they have to buy is so much higher than formerly. For comparison it is suggested to the voter, if memory has failed him, to ask Ills grocer for prices on an average weekly bill of the laborer and mechanic. * The following is tiie list of articles and the prices in 189(1 and 1900: 1800 1900 J Sack Hour, 24 It> $45 $55 \ bushel potatoes 40 50 5 lb bacon 50 75 3 lb lord 25 30 2 IT) butter ’ 30 40 1 dozen eggs 15 i 8 10 lb A sugar 55 70 2 lb coffee, Lion 38 f O 8 cans corn aud tomatoes.. 25 25 1 can baking powder 10 10 Total $3.31 $4.03 Here Is an Increase In cost of a week’s supplies of 72 cents. On the other hand, common labor durlug Cleveland times was a drug on tlio market at from SI.OO to $1.25 a day. Carpenters then could be hired for $1.50 a day. Now they receive $2.00 a day. We do not believe the laboring men can be deceived now ns they were In 1802. They have not forgotten the time when township trustees were giving out work on public roads and elsewhere at SI.OO a day for two days la the week, In order to assist In keeping people from starvation. Reminders of those gloomy days are not conducive to Democratic success. The laborers know n good thing when •they see it coming down the road. They know also who are their best friends. Ex-Comptroller of the currency Eckles, a gold Democrat, rel cently made a good point on this que.sJ tlon when he said: “Wlio today are employing the thousands upon thousands of men in mine and mill, in furnace and factory, upon tho railroads and the waters, in store and office? Are they the Bryans or the Tillman**, the Altgclds or the Weavers, the Townes or the CrnkersT I call your attention to the fnct'thal these men and all their associates who write tlio platforms, map out the policies and control the action of th«