Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1908 — A Republican Panic. [ARTICLE]

A Republican Panic.

The Jasper County Democrat this week printed the following paragraph In lta local columns: . town-" ship, is promised that new automobile by the 15th of this month, but he is not certain whether he will get it or not. This is one of the three machines that were to have been delivered Oct. 1, but owing to the crowded condition of the factory they could not be had. William Washburn has allowed Mr. Raymond to take the first of the three, although he was the first buyer.” Now, what do you think of an indiscretion of that sort in a democratic paper that has been howling that conditions in this country were such that the honest American farmer would never get out from under his load, and that all the factories were shut down and that the country was going pell-mell to the bow-wows. And the American farmer is asked to contribute to the democratic campaign fiiud to ward off the evils of republican legislation, and at the same time the automobile factories are so crammed up with orders that they can’t come any where near keeping up with them. And the purchase of the output are farmers. The two men named in the paragtaph are d mocratlc farmers, too, but they are great, broad, sensible men, and they have by their industry and thrift progressed in worldly ways within the past twelve years and aided in disproving the. Bryan claim of 12.6 that the gold standard was dragging the -American farmer to ruin. And the same paper that records the fact that automobile factories are pushed to the limit to meet their orders in order to Bupply farmers wiih automobiles, declares that there is a panic existing and that to forestall it the farmers of the country should contribute to the cause of electing William Jennings Bryan to the piesidency. Automobiles and 75 cent corn for the farmers. And the Jasper County Democrat wants you to join the democratic 30 cent club, have your name appended to the ‘sucker” list and go back to 20 cent corn and free trade. But the American farmer won’t do it. He knows when he is well off. He voted by the tens of thousands for McKinley and for Roosevelt, and tie wijl do It again for Taft and continued prosperity, for he has nothing to regret because he did it before. There are hundreds of fanners in Indiana ifiat want to order auto- 1 mobiles during 1909, but tuey will ! have to preserve prices in order to do it; And they will undoubtedly look; baok over the past twelve years and say to themselves: "This is good enough for me; 1 guess i. will give Bryan another pass up. He was wroif in 1806; he was wrong in 1900; and 1 e is wrong again. I think 1 would Le a dunce to howl when the corn is * worth- 75 cents. 1 want that automobile." . | And with Taft for president and American labor protec. ed by a republican tariff, and business of. all kinds having the assurance of fair play without needless persecution, the price of farm products will confut e to be such that the American faimer can have an automobile if he wants one. A Republican Panic—Automobile factories running over time to supply machines for the American farmer. Relief advised—Join the Bryan 3b cent club. Qreat Scott, such consistency.