Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1908 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

That Sale. i During the campaign just closed our friends, in different parts of the country, sent us a number of auction sale post cards gotten up by the Democrats and offering for sale all the effects of the Q. O. P. on the 4th of March next. We were asked to answer these cards through the Yellow Jacket, but knowing what the Republicans would do for the Donkey party on the 3rd of November, we smiled and laid them away. Today we again come across one of those same cards, which readß as follows: PUBLIC SALE. Our’lease with Uncle Sum having practically expired and having decided to quit business and retire to private life, we, the undersigned, will offer at public sale our residence at the Capitol in Washington, D. C., commencing on the 4th day of November, 1808, the following d scribed property, to-wit: One elephant, about forty-five years old; one financial panic, old enough to wean and s.reJ by the gold bugs and damned by ( everybody; one Republican platform