Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1908 — The Better Way. [ARTICLE]

The Better Way.

Winamac Republican. In the co-operation told about in the daily papers between the democratic and republican state committees in planning for the state conventions of the two parties, which will be held within a few days of each other, there is an object lesson

for voters in every precinct in the state. If representatives of the two parties can work together with a oroll.erly and nieghborly co-operative spirit, in the matter of decorating a . ail and building staging for speakers and the immense crowds to gather at he coming state conventions, where party champions will advocate contradictory theories, and where rival candidates will be nominated on opposing political platforms, surely the rank and file of these two parties, republicans and democrats who live on adjoining farms, or those who are our neighbors in our villages and towns, should not permit the rank weeds of partisanship and political bias to crowd out of their hearts and lives the fragrant flowers of neighborly love and true brotherly interest. At the recent Bryan banquet, Chas. Bookwalter, republican mayor of Indianapolis, one of the invited guests who sat close to the Nebraskan, an attentive listener and one of the most enthusiastic in his applause of the commoner’s eloquent climaxes. Few citizens have paid higher tribute to the honesty and worth of Pres. Roosevelt than Bryan, who is leader of the opposing political party. These and hundreds of like incidents, displaying the ..noblest and: best side of life, are common-place facts in our nation’s past and present day history, and present a marked contrast to the petty efforts of the ignorant, the mean and the low, who seek to win their end and attract attention to themselves in political circles by speaking ill of neighbors Whb may hold political opinions differing from their own.