The sun., 1896-10-10
A PATRIOTIC CITIZEN OF IOWA.
That state Sure for McRiniey by Great
Majority.


To THE EDITOR OF The suN-Str: was m
anti.slavery man. l am Republican. An ounce
Of rebel lead passed through my body thirty
three years ago. Eleven families Of cousins,
children OF eleven brothers and sisters, have
done large share as settlers OF Illinois. Iowa,
and Oregon. Five OF our number went to the
Union army never to return: several were In
robel prisons. and several more. like myself
bear the painful results OF wounds got in the
service of our country.
Never, since 1861. has the country been so
threatened as now; and It becomes every good
citizen of tho United Suites to stand as firmly
for his country as we did In 1901.
Our village has population OF 500. We have
q college with over two hundred students per
year and public school with four teachers in
as many rooms. Quito number OF our citizens
arc disabled soldiers. A good number are men
now of middle age. or older, who were OF the
first settlers of our new country forty years
ago, and. being past work. have rented their
farms and moved to town to spend the even
ing of their days. We are in the midst Of one of
the best farming regions OF the West. No one
citizen of our town or township is worth as
much rs $4,000 In fact, our town Is a fair
specimen of the better class CT Western villages
We have a Mckinley club Of over two hun
dred and fifty members and Bryan club of
forty-two.
The lines are plainly drawn. On tho Mckinley
side is q heavy majority OF tho sober, clearer
headed men who have something to lose. On
the Bryan side are the men who say, well.
I've nothing to lose;" the men who seem to
ignore principle and honor: tho men who have
already spent decades mostly in store loafng.
and the men who do not expect to have any
thing unless in some way It falls into their
ever open hands. Their voices loud
Their misinformation 10 wonderful in its
character and extent The Constitution of
the United States they ignore. They misquote
laws. tables. documents, and the Congressional
Record and they refuse to be corrected. History
they know not except as their wild writer's
The contest right here IN this Iowa town is
men on men who have, something to lose. They
say In words: These business men are our enc
Johnny Bull Johnny Bull!S ad nauseam and
ad infnitum. Their stump speakers continue
here few nights aqo as bsn~ pe @ 1ne syya asa1 az
the London Findncidl Neus after that pubIica-
is sion = ana already twice denied heying ever pub
Blaine as being for free a and Unlimited coinage age
writ as David A. Wells. or such @ speakers SSGs as
Cochran. schurS. Harrison, Palmer, Flower,
rabble-rousing rant 10 to them the sum Of hui
man wisdom; and the paragon model of elo-
Altgeld. and Tilimau they say unto each other
"These be thy gods. o Israel"
But be not alarmed for the State OF Iowa. We
shall give Mckinley anywhere from $4,000 to
more than 100. 900 majority Never before has
there been such n canvass as this fall but Iowa
will be found on the Sd of Novembe standing
like a great rock against which the frantic
hordes Of wild voters will dash themselves and
the rock be unmoved.
Though Republican. have been for twenty
five years an almost constant reader OF THE
Sun. have always admired its ability and its
independence; and 1t is increasing my estma-
tion of II and my respect for IL by its course In
the present hour of danger.
l used TO see Senator Palmer. and knew of
him and his family ty-fve years ago, when
he Was young man and was a small boy. In
the early days of Illinois. Since he became a
public man ! have never lost sight OF him.
OF course. either Mckinley or Bryan Is to
be elected: but II 1t were q choice between
Palmer and Bryan. no allegiance to party. no
difference as to other matters. would hinder me
for an hour from leaving my own ticket and
voting for Palmer; and in that case scores OF
thousands Of the men of Iowa would do tho
same thing.
In the hereafter we can bring out our politi-
cal differences, but for this fall the greatest
work Is to save our country from financial dis
asier, and from the worse disaster of dishonor
and disgrace
A generation ago. and for years. under the
smoke OF one vast battlefield. we forgot that We
were partsans Of either any party. and
saved the nation. Again. this rear, let US only
remember that we are Americans.
COLLEGE SPRINGS. iowa. Oct. s.