Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1904 — BROTHER SWAIM IS AFTER SCALPS. [ARTICLE]

BROTHER SWAIM IS AFTER SCALPS.

Editor Silas E. Bwains, of tbe Hammond News, who ran againtt Jesae E Wilso", of Reasselaer, for joint representative from Lake and J sper counties, and oan.e out of his home oonnty 2690 voles b<-. hind, which however, was 806 better than Parker’s showing agaiuat, Roosevelt says in last week’s News:—There is a very good thing in being a candidate for offioe even tbongh yon make no campaign, and do not desire tbe office. Yon fi id oat in this way how many of those yon have helped iD cimpaigns use a sin* le effort to leoure yon a complimentary vote, In fourteen years of newspaper work in Hammond we flatter ourselves that we have as sisted many Democrats to offiie, appointive and elective, and of all

the list we think there was just one man who made any attempt to increase onr vote by other than tbe vote he oast himself. Except for the one man the increased vote reoeived was duly wholly to onr Republican friends. Democratic < dice seekers can draw their own conclusions as to onr oourse in future wbf n they bob op for offioe Jnst as sorely will we remember the friendly offices of a number of oar Republican friends who cast aside party politios ia this instance