Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1902 — A Novel Idea. [ARTICLE]

A Novel Idea.

It is said that a candidate for a county office up in Lake county has introduced a novel and what seems to be a very useful plan in electioneering. In his rounds he takes with him in bis buggy a competent plowman. When he hails a farmer in the field the plowman takes the plow or cultivator and the work goes right on, while the farmer stands in the shade of the hedgerow and listens to the tale the candidate tells. It works like a charm. Some farmers would rather be talked to for a whole day in the shade than plod in the field behind the implement.