Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1908 — "If all that Mr. Bryan has favored [ARTICLE]

"If all that Mr. Bryan has favored

during the past twelve years had been enacted into law we should have been overwhelmed with disaster and would regard it as our chief business In the future to find a way of escape from the meshes of ill-considered legislation In which we should have been entangled. It Is fortunate for him as well as for oa that he was defeated, and whatever may be his present political potentiality can be ascribed to the fact that hitherto he has not been permitted to carry out his program.”—From Governor Hughes’s Speech at Youngstown. Indians Is pleased to note that the Republican party In Ohio has nailed to Its mast this year the banner of temperance legislation. That grand old farmer-statesman, Governor Harris, who wears the "little brown button,” made a notable speech at Youngstown that should go far to reelect him.

“Shall the people rule?" asks Mr. Bryan. We say emphatically, yes. And that Is what county local option means. The law Itself will not close a single saloon. But it gives the people of a county the right to say whether 8 saloon shall exist In the county. That Is strictly the rule of the people. All patriotic temperance people should get together and push the oounty local option law through the special session of the legislature. The fight la not a partisan one, bat is a contest between the people and the brewers. Shall the brewers rule?