Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1904 — Republican Times Best. [ARTICLE]

Republican Times Best.

A Pulaski County Democrat Gives Good Reasons for Becoming a Republican. A dispatch from Winamac under date of May sth says: William L Hettinger, a prominent farmer of Van Buren township, who has been a lifelong Democrat and whose father was a Democrat before him, publicly announces that he will hereafter vote the Republican ticket. Mr. Hettinger is the father of eleven children, but his belief in a large family is not the only Rjosevelt theory he now exercises. Mr. Hettinger says he was sincere in voting the Democratic ticket, but adds: “I oan’t do it any longer. I’ve been studying this question more closely of late years, and I’ve reached the conclusion that if I vote in my own interest I will vote the Republican ticket, and I’m going to vote that way after this, from president down. I have to make my living on the farm and by haid days’ work, aad 1 feel that Republican times are best.”