Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — Bryan’s Precinct Republican. [ARTICLE]

Bryan’s Precinct Republican.

At the recent primary election in Nebraska Lancaster Precinct Nd. 4/ In which is located Fairview, the voting precinct of W. J. Bryen, cast thirty-five Republican votes and tWenty-slx Demo-, cratlc. The same precinct last fall cast forty-three Republican votes and thirty-five Democratic, a Democratic loss ot slightly more than 1 per cent. When Mr. Bryan lived in town he registered In Precinct A of the Fifth Ward, a polling pla<x> which usually could be depended u[»on to vote about the proportion of three Republicans to one Democrat. At the time be removed to Fairview be remarked Jocularly that ha was going to a community where the nolitlcnl division was more even, and he hoped In time so to reform Lancaster No. 1 nr to make it veer around to bls way of thinking.