Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1904 — Wants a Vacation. [ARTICLE]

Wants a Vacation.

The Evansville Courier, the lead ing Demooratio organ in the “Pocket,” discovered a “rockribbed” New York Republican traveling man named George C. McKenzie st one ot the hotels in that city the other day. Mr. McKenzie, according to the Courier, saysihat he will vote for William H. Hearst for president if he should be nominated by the Demobrats (thus shivering his rockribbedness at one blow;) that Hearst is the only man on the Democratic side that can carry both New York and Pennsylvania against Roosevelt, and that ninetenths of the eastern traveling men think as he does. That is a pretty “yalter’ ’ story, but there it is in the Courier. Its improbability its own refutation. But suppose Mr. McKenzie, being a “rock-ribbed Re publican,” bibulously declares hi purpose to vote for a Democrat against Roosevelt, we are simply forced to conclude that he wants a vacation and is not concerned for the welfare of the country. Traveling men are the product of prosperity. There were none on the road during the last Democratic national administration, They were hibernating. As soon as it was sure that McKinley was elected they took up their grips and went after orders for the re-opening mills and factories and wholesale houses. If Mr, McKenzie wants a rest, he should put on a sub. for a spell, and not vote to plunge the country into darkness and distress again. Four years of calamity is enough for one generation.