Show DICK ISLAND the tribune says bland is a dull commonplace man and attempts to convey the impression that he ie altogether on unfit person for president of course we do not pretend to guess the standard by which the tribune men but to our mind a man of twenty odd years of public life whose honesty and integrity has sent him back to the fields of labor from which he rose to do honor to his constituency and command the respect of a nation is worthy of the highest trust in the gift of the people and is juet hsuch a man aa is wanted in thee most trying days of oppression and dishonor let us take from the plow the farmer statesman who appreciates the trying of the agriculturalists and the common people and place him where his trials and tribulations will aid to give him the power the courage and the resolution to fight down plutocracy and where his honesty will be an inspiring hope for the future welfare of this countr honest dick bland with his browned sun face and blistered hands his noble heart and honest motives is fit to be president and is one of our favorites in the democratic race |