Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1908 — Can’t Disaffect the Farmers. [ARTICLE]

Can’t Disaffect the Farmers.

The failure of Bryan’s desperate attempts to curry favor with the farmers is illustrated by the manner in which he was received at Crookston, Minn. According to Congressman Halvor Stevenson the event went off aa follows: “Bryan’s speech at Crookston was a great disappointment. He actually lost ground there for Democracy. Thousands of people were there to hear him, and waited till ten o’clock In the evening before he appeared. The address was a narrow appeal to farmers, a harangue, trying to prejudice them against Republicanism. It didn’t take at all. Only once was there the slightest symptom of applause. He spoke to a silent, disappointed audience.’’