The Oskaloosa herald., 1900-09-27
OUT FOR M'KINLEY.
Mrs. Lease, the Famous Kansas
Orator Renounces Bryan.

Chicago, Sept. 22.-Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Lease, formerly Of Kansas,
but now of New York, yesterday an
nounced formally that she IL going to
take the stump for Mckinley, Roose-
welt and expansion.
81 am with the republican party
now" she said, primarily for the
reason that as / take it the issue has
resolved itself into the old issue of
apprehension versus republicanism
and as a daughter.of an old union
soldier l feel thai my place is with
the republican party. The democratic
party is still anchored to the obeolete
and worm-eaten doctrine of state
rights. 1t is a party of negation and
obstruction purely, with no issue ex-
cept that of retrogression and oppo-
sition to republicanism.
Her Idol Fallen.
"Mr. ~Bryan-well, / thought him
a sincere man our years ago, a man
devoted to a principle and with the
courage to maintain it in the face of
all opposition. But, alas, events have
forced me to the sorrowful conclu-
sion that my erstwhile idol is simply
an ordinary man with an abmormally
developed presidential bee in his
bonnet, whose seductive huns have
made him forget principle, consist
ency and duty to his country and fell
low-men.
sit really makes one sad who be-
lieved in his sincerity four years ago
to compare his fearless and consist
emit %utterances then with his cheap
demagogism of today. l have heard
even some of his followers cay that
his present speeches did not seem to
ring as true as those of four years
ago and that he failed to impress
them as he did then. This is simply
due to the fact that he is talking what
he does not believe in his secret heart.
cat the same time l do not believe
he has any great hope of succeeding
this year. His game is to become
one of the new senators from Neb-
raska, believing he can in this way
keep himself before the public eye
until the elections of four years hence.
He is going to remain in Nebraska
during the greater part of the cam
paign for this reason, and from what
1 know already of public sentiment
in that state 1 think his resolution is
a wise one, for the people of that
state are not with him in his anti
expansion policy. They are for ex-
pansion because they realize the mani
fest benefits it is going to bring not
only to their state but to the whole
country.
ssSame Old COpperheadIsm.''
"To my mind this anti-expansion
or alleged imperialism policy of the
Democratic party presents the most
unpatriotic, un-American, unwise
issue from a purely material point of
view that has ever come before the
people of this country. There is, of
course, exception, the issue pre-
sented in '61, but it is the same old
spirit, the same old copperheadism
of that day which is now demanding
the endorsement of the American
people. Expansion has come as a
natural development and has come
to stay. The people of Nebraska and
the West generally are progressive,
intelligent people, and they are not
with Mr.. Bryan on this issue, Meth
er are they frightenedb by his DOGGY
militarism which he is trotting out
for the special detectation of the
German-Americans. He is not max
ing the impression on their minds he
thinks he is when he talks about the
hardships it is working on their fell
low-countrymen at home.
81 hear Adlai Stevenson spoken of
as a real nice old gentleman, and 1
presume he is, but l remember him
as one of those who were firing on
our troops in the rear. in the stormy
days of '61, a 'Knight..of the Golden
Circle and he seems to be at his old
tricks now. tell you this so-called
anti-imperialistic fight of today is
simply a counterpart of the Copper
head fight of '61, and, as then, it was
the Republican party which was
fighting for enlarged liberty and a
better civilization in the front ranks,
with a Democratic enemy both in
front and in the rear, so it is now. 1
don't believe the American people
are going at this late date to change
front on this question"
Are You Constipatedl
no Won have that tired feeling? Do