St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1900-09-26


In his speech at Grand Rapids, Michi
gan, recently, Gov. Roosevelt quoted
from letters he had received from a
United States officer in the Philippines.
They were written, he said, by Dem
ocrat and son of former Confederate
officer. "There is" wrote this officer
terrible suffering among the amigos
when we cannot protect them. / hear
continually and believe they are waiting
for the November election, and will be
active until then. Our troops entered a
new town not long ago and called on the
chief local officer for talk. The matter
was laid fairly before him as to whether
he wished to join with us or 60 on with
the instruction. Being thinking man,
he hesitated few moments, and then
took the breath from the officer by ask
ing him whether Bryan or Mckinley
would be elected this fall He joined us
only after being assured that there was
no possibility of Bryan's being elected.
l would certainly vote the straight Re-
publican ticket if were home.
81 cannot understand" continues this
officer. chow our own country should do
so much to encourage the instruction
and cause the loss of so much life. In
this island know that the army of in
surrectors and guerillas is kept alive by
the people at home. Bryans campaign
is most closely followed. The speeches
of public men who oppose expansion,
and in doing so praise the Filipino
bravely struggling for his liberty are
translated into the several dialects and
issued as circulars. From an intelligent
prisoner the other day learned that the
people were assured that Bryan would
be elected and that our ships would be
| withdrawn, and the massacre of Ameri-
cans would be the order of the day. II
you doubt this, | wish you could see
| their barbarous mutilation OF the prison.
ers and wounded that they take. l do
believe that ii Bryan and his sympathiz-
ers cannot make their campaign without
such acts and speech as are traitorous to
the government in time of war it would
be more generous and noble to hold their
| opinions in allegiance until we can
straighten out this tangle. If Bryan is
defeated, and the country gives the ad-
ministration the right support, we can
finish up this job mere without great loss
of American life and without great
| punishment to the natives"
Close Figuring iu South Dakota.
South Dakota was one of the states
that Bryan carried in 1896, but it was
one which gave him the smallest plural
ity, 1873 votes. There were at that time
$4,000 electors in South Dakota and the
Il, o.,4 I, tba tuyn az he
Presidency, fundamentally expressed,
was twenty three one hundredths OIL per
cent There has been only one state
election since, the result of which threw
very little light on the political senti.
ment of the state, for while the Fusion
candidate for Governor was elected by a
plurality of $40 votes, the Republicans
elected the other state officers. This
year the difficulty of any prophecy upon
| the result of the election in this close
state is increased by the fact that dur
ing the last four years there has been a
heavy migration into South Dakota
and it is this big influx of new voters
that make predictions difficult
South Dakota is farming state offer.
ing excellent opportunities for immi
grants from those European countries
which are similar in climatic conditions
to it, and since 1896 there has been a
steady inf wv ofGermans, Scandinaviaus
and English and Scotch immigrants into
South Dakota. The conditions of sui
frage in South Dakota are very favorable
to newcomers. Only six months resi-
dence in the state and only ten days
residence in voting precinct are re
CURED as condition of suffrage, anC
aliens who have declared their intention
to become citizens are qualified to vote
Under these circumstances there are {
considerable number Of voters in Soutl
Dakota of whose probable politica
action no safe prophecy can be made, al
the margin of majority on either side il
very small and new immigration into
one county during four years There ar,
fifty-two counties in South Dakota
would completely change the result.
South Dakota is not only close state, bu
mixed" state in politics. 1t has two
United States Senators, one elected as ;
Republican (Pettigrew), who acted will
the Democrats in all important matte.
in the last session, and another, Kyle
who is Populist, and candidate
against Gen. Weaver for the nomination
to the Presidency at the Omaha Conven
Of 1892, and invariably votes with tn
Republicans. These are but two illus
trations of the peculiar political divi
sions which exist in South Dakota, ant
which are accounted for in part by tn
fact that the state is new" one, no
only in respect to the date of it's admis
sion as such, but because constan
changes have been made since in it
electorate by newcomers. some of then
foreign immigrants and others immi
grants from other states. South Dakot;
has four electoral votes and it will be n,
surprise to some persons if McKinle,
received two OF them and Bryan two.
Rryan's Campaign Dates.
A Lincoln dispatch to the New Yor
Sun under date of Sept IA, gave the fo
lowing account of Bryan's campaig
dates:
Mr.. Bryan has wired home that he wi
return to Lincoln on Thursday. He wi
come by way of Kansas and Missouri
and will make seven speeches betwee
st Louis and here. He will be at HON
but one day, and on Friday afternoo
will speak at Syracuse in Otoe county
the home of ex-Secretary Morton. FIR
day evening he speaks in Weeping Water
Cass county. On Saturday he make
three speeches in this (Lancaster) county
One will be made in the northern part
the county and two in the southern, a
small places and for the benefit of h
farmer friends, who, according to poll
have been deserving him In LARGE nun