Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1894-10-26
NO LONGER n DEMOCRAT
Hon. Jonathan Sinnnone T~lle
Why He Left the Demo-
cratic Party.


me for encrOaching on your col
umns to makela brief statement In
reply to certain false statements
and rumors that are being eircu
lated throughout the county
in reference to nv position
in the present campaign. and es'
pecially to a statement made in the
Morrison County Democrat Of the
! 18th inst, to-wit: that am
"One of a number of renegade
Democrats in the county who have
! turned their coats because they
could not get an office in the Demo-
cratic party"
First-1 most emphatically deny
the charge that I am a renegade
Democrat, and any such charge can
not truthfully be made, and is made
only for political purposes.
Second-I am not a disappointed
office seeker at the hands Of the
Democratic party, for the rea-
son I was not a candidate for
any office therefore would not be
disappointed in not receiving one.
The Democratic party has honored
me in the past by election to the
state senate, as a member of the
state central cOmmitte, twice chair
man of the congressional committee,
and other Offices, for which l will
always feel grateful, and especially
so to the many kind friends and
supporters of the past, and I shall
always entertain.the kindest:feelings
for my old associates in the Demo-
cratic ranks. and wish to assure
them one and all that I entertain
nothing but kind feelings for them
and 1 accord to them the same con-
stitutional right that 1 claim for
myself, that is, to do and act as they
think right, politically as well as in
all other matters, and when you
have done this no one should ques-
tion your motives.
Third-I have changed my politics
from Democratic to Republican not
because I could not get an office as
Democrat, but for the reason, that,
after a careful study OF the two
parties, and the results of the ad-
ministratiOns of each, l became con-
vinced that the best interests OF all
classes, the farmer, laborer, mechan-
ic, the business man, in fact, thu in
terest of the whole people Of the
United Sta ties would be best served
by che return of the Republican
party TO power. l will not encrOach
upon your space and kindness this
time in any attempt to discuss the
merits OF the two parties, but before
closing, will call the attention of the
voters of Morrison county to the
pledges made by the Democratic
party in their Chicago platform, and
the promises made on the stump by
all Democratic speakers two years
ago from one end Of the country to
the other. Compare the acts of the
last congress- with these pledges and
promises SO literally made before
election. And what do you find,
that great revival of business you
were promised? No. Demand for
labor and good wages? No. In
creased prices for your farm pro-
duce? No. One dollar per bushel
for your wheat? No. Now kind
friends, what has been the condition
of the two years of Democratic rule?
It seems to me l hear you answer
one and all-The hardest times we
ever saw; wheat and produce the
lowest ever known to us: money
hardest to get; increased taxes and
nothing to pay them with, and
general feeling that something is
wrong somewhere.
These, my friends, are few Of the
reasons why l shall vote the Repub-
lican ticket.
Respectfully.
j. SIMMONS.