The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-10-24
WILLIAM H. LEESE,
Formerly Republican Attorney
General Of Nebraska Endorses
and Supports Bryan.
And Rebukes the Eastern Aen who
Think to Teach Westerners
Their Duty.

LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 1.-THE visit
OF the stumping Union veterans, Gen.
erals Alger, Howard Henderson and
Corporal Tanner. to this city, in the
interest Of the gold standard and Nc
Kinley. has called forth vigorous
open letter from one OF their old COM
rades III arms, ex-Attofney General
Beese, of this city. He Is an old time
republican, personal acquaintance
and neighbor of William J. Bryan In
his letter he says:
"We are glad to meet you to-day, be-
cause many of us followed you from
the first battle of Bull Run all through
the Peninsula campaign; through An
tietam, Gettysburg, Spottsylvania and
down through the Wilderness under
Grant, and we respect you because
you were our comrades In arms.
"We offer no objections to your Wis
iting our state as republicans. We
dc not object to your advocating your
cause as republicans, for we are well
aware that you cannot say one word
In favor of the present republican
platform but that every farmer, every
laborer or mechanic In the State of
Nebraska will discover at once the
fallacy of your areiimeht:
.'But we do object to, and offer our
solemn protest, in the mamie Of tht
suffering people against your COM
ing here, not as republican speakers,
but as Union Generals, to dictate to
the old soldiers of this State how we
should vote, and to try and fasten
upon the people of this country the
gold standard, a financial policy that
has brought distress and ruin ON the
common people of every country that
has adopted it.
1--WE respect all old soldiers: We
respect Major Mckinley as a man, but
you know that he represents in this
campaign every interest that is in
direct conflict with the rights of the
great common people of our nation.
You have endorsed the policy of Cleye-
land and Carlisle. and are to-day
working on the same lines with them.
We are not fighting for the offices.
We are striking for our holmes, and
firesides, and for the prosperity of FL
ture generations. We struck the
shackles from the limbs of four mill
lions slaves, and have resolved to pre-
vent you, if God is willing, from
placing them upon seventy million
whites.
's1n y0af speeches here you called
us Anarchists, 'repudiationlsts, and
other epithets, that caused the blush
of shame to mantle the cheeks of your
greatest admirers. Ever since the
war the Republican party has declared
its platform, and you have advocated
from the stump, the double standard.
This year you tell us that the gold
standard is the correct principle, and
the double standard is wrong Were
you deceiving us then, or are you de-
ceiving us now?
"When you ask us to vote for Ma
jor Mckinley because he is an old SOL
dier of the civil war we want you to
understand that the smoke and dust
of that conflict has long since drifted
away. Our swords have been sheath
ed in their scabbards for many years,
and have become rusty while laying
on the shrine of governmental law.
We have been running this Govern
ihent so long on the old war issues
that we have endangered OUR own lib
critics.
"No, my comrades, we will never do
it. We are going to support with our
votes the great commoner, the Glad
stone of America, the Thaddeus Ste
vens, of 1896, William J. Bryan.
mo, my old comrades, go back and
tell your Eastern friends that you
find the old soldiers of Nebraska are
doing their own thinking"