Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-12-25
OUR CANDIDATE IN 1900
The Great Issue Unsettled.


Mr.. James L. Norris, the well-known
District Democrat, who was an earn
est supporter of Mr.. Bryan during
the recent campaign, makes the fol-
lowing comment upon the result:
SIN common with all citizens of the
republic I haye exercised my rights
and given my loyal support to the
candidates of the Democratic nation
al convention at Chicago last July.
We have been defeated at the polls,
it is true, but the great issues of the
campaign are as far from being def
nitely settled as ever.
''There will doubtless be tempo
rary revival of business; and an APP
perance of prosperity throughout the
country, which most heartily wish
might prove to be substantial and
abiding. Now that the election has
resulted in restoring the republican
party to power it is the duty of every
good citizen to make the best oft and
do nothing consciously to throw any
hindrance in the way of their sue
cessful administration of our national
affairs both at home and abroad.
But this obligation binds no man to
surrender his honest convictions as
to the policy best suited to promote
the welfare of the people of this coun-
try or to desist from any legitimate
means realizing those convictions.
1.-The question of what constitutes
sound money is still open to debate.
$50 is the proposition so fully in
sisted on by our standard bearer thai
America is strong enough to inaugu-
rate financial policy of her own.
$50 are the tariff questions.
so is the jurisdiction of the federal
and state governments.
$50 is the income tax:
$50 are the problems of capital and
labor.
$50 is the question of syndicates,
trusts, and monopolies of all kinds.
"And already the press is begin
ming to call tho Republican party Is
? attsszEfon to these subjects, and al
ready members of that party are sug-
costing some of the very reforms
which the people of this country have
repudiated at the ballot box. They
are asking Mr.. Mckinley to revise
the tariff doctrines; they are suggest
ing that restrictions be placed upon
trusts, syndicates, and monopolies;
they are questioning the encroach-
ment of federal upon state authority /;
they are waking up to the fact that
there are serious social and economic
problems which confront us now of
which the founders of our nation had
no conception.
Now, on all these subjects I hold
that William Jennings Bryan has, by
his efforts in the late campaign, rem
dered an invaluable service to his
country and the world, and I regard
him, rejected as he has been by his
fellow-countrymen at the polls. as to-
day the foremost patriot, statesman,
and orator in this country, whose re-
cent expositions of existing condit-
ions have been so clear and mastery
as to have lasting impression on the
mind of the country. Against an al
most unheard of combination he car
ried himself in his great mission so as
to extort even unwilling praise from
the most determined of his oppo-
nents. For half a year he has been
moving under the dancing search
light of the whole country, and has
come out unscratched in every essen
tial element of a noble Christian
manhood. And thoroughly believe
that, SO far from being bnried under
a mound of public obloquy and dis
trust, he has yet before him in this
country a magnificent future. 1 be-
lieve that with him the failure of
Presidential honors is as nothing to
E the sorrow he feels that SO many of
his countrymen are still blinded to
their own best interests as we'll as to
the real welfare and true glory of our
common country"
A Generous Offer.