Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1908 — THEY DESERVE THE VOTES OF ALL JASPER-CO. REPUBLICANS [ARTICLE]

THEY DESERVE THE VOTES OF ALL JASPER-CO. REPUBLICANS

Men Who Are Running Under Eagle A V X Emblem Have the Qualities That Should Secure Unanimous Support.

Seriously, though, The Democrat agrees with The Republican that Jasper County has at the present time the cleanest set of officers she ever had.— Jasper County Democrat, Feb. ZJ, igoß.

Democratic papers this we k a e closing the campaign with a por entious warning to the voters that right at the last the republicans are going to spring "a fresh assortment of canards" and lie and villify every candidate on the democratic ticket The Jasper County Democrat beads a big scare article as follows: "Same old game; Republicans resorting th scare and villification; anything -to retain the offices; Voters should consider the motive behind these taxeating, machine politicians, who would rather do anything than give up their jobs and go to work like other people.” My, but isn’t that a dreadful charge. The article that follows the scare head indicates that for yeirs the republicans have been closing up the campaigns, local, sta e and national, by trying to scare and bluif people into voting the republican ticket. But the voters of Jasp:r county know that they have never be n decleved first or last by the republicans and that all they ask is a respectful consideration of the merits and citizenship of the candidates. The Republican wislies to enlm t tirst it has carried on an absolutely clean campaign, and that no candidate on the democratic county ticket has bean subjected to any critic! m. Occasionally ardent partitans have asked why the Republican did not open up against some of the Candida es of the opposition, but the answer fr m us has always been that he e w s id occasion to instituoe that s rt of campaign. ' The utmost confidence tn t e worth of our own candidates and the. j.dgment of the voters has made us f ei confident that victory was in si-ht. and a victory won on merit and free

from personalities is doubly appreciated and the Republican has been guilty of ho reference to county candidates that justifies the suggestion that voters should be prepared to expect “villification and scare." The voters can not refer to any campaign where the republicans of Jasper county have employed tactics of that kind, and certainly the magnificent candidates that have been nominated on the republican ticket this year are deserving the support of every republican and we believe that the very best way to respond to the scare, that the democratic papers are making is to vote the republican ticket straight from top to bottom. There ma be occasions come when a republican will be justified in scratching his ticket, but this year the characters and qualities of the candidates is such as to de.erte the unqualified support of all the voters. The paragiaph quoted from the Jasper County Democrat of February 15th should be sufficient recommendation of the office holders who are candidates for re-election, viz: County Treasurer Jesse D. Allman, County Recorder John W. Tilton, County Coroner Willis J. Wright, and County Commissioners John F. Pettet and Charles T. Denham. Tne new candidates for office in the county are, Lewis P. Shiier for sheriff, W. Frank Osborne for Purveyor, two men whose citizenship stands at the ve.y highest tnaik in Jasper county. A few words about each of the candidates, including Abraham Halleck, Cciaiidae tor state senator and John C. Brown, candidate for state representative, might be appropriate, and wa take pleasure In mentioning the candidates and their claims for support.