The Montgomery tribune. (Montgomery City, Mo.) 1892-1910, 1900-10-05
COL. b. P. DYER.
ExPLoDEs THE FALLAcIEs OF DEMOCRATIC
PARAMOUNT ISSUES
Common sence and not Prejudice Should Decide
the Ballot.
Evisence should be Weighed.

II
Dyer speak many times and on many diff
erent occasions and they always heard 200
speeches, too. But the speech delivered h
him last Saturday afternoon at the CON
house in this city, was one of the very be.
land gave Col. Dyera still warmer place !
the affections of'his host of admiring friend
here.
Patriotism and unselfsh love of countr
brcathed from every sentence. A commo
good for brotherhood of man was presente
in faultless unity from start to finish.
!, Col. Dyer began his speech by saving tha
he was candidate for no office that HI
wanted no Office, and what he would sa,
would be from unselfsh motives, that wbel
he should be called upon to give an accoun
OF himself before the Great Judge for tn,
deeds done in the body, he could say II hay,
fought good fight / have tried to saw wha
is right; have tried to do what is right =
He then told how csrefuily the jurors wer,
selected who were to try an insignificant cas-,
where only a few cents were at stake. he.
tween two citizens. If any Juror stated tha,
ne had already made up his mind on the case
Or was prejudiced in the least toward eitbe,
OF the contendmg parties, the Judge promptl,
excused such an one from serving in the iur,
box. II that plan was right between two citi
xens, slsa ~, tlse.s n 1i 4i1Fb
lin settling TIE "a ysention bctweeil two giea
parties. a vote cast according to the preiudic,
of 10 years ago, regardless of the present evi
dence in the present POLITICAL issues. was
wrong. But vote cast this fall according to
the evidence in the case, unsullied by the pre-
judice of 81 years ago, would be a vote cast
for right.
The speaker then told how in 1870 he
cut himself loose from the prejudices of the
civil war and voted for Iratz Brown for Gov
ernor of Missouri and the enflunchsement of
all citizens who had taken up arms against the
Union. He believed then that the principle
was right and now, 30 years from that time.
all voters, democrats and republicans alike,
said it was right. 1t was a Republican Para
mount Issue then and it was to-day. Ii did
not change every four years. Imperialism and
Militaryism in IS; Greeleyism in 70 Tariff
Reform in rs; Tariff Reform in 90: when
Cleveland was elected and both Houses of
Congress were democratic and the awful dis
asters that followed, Banks broke, business
disasters, tlamps and soup houses everywhere.
bonds sold to get money to run the govern
ment, 260 millions of debt shouldered ON to
the taxpayers, and then come free silver, w.
D. Bryan, etc, all paramounted to ''beat the
band,' and all went down like the famous
= McGinty to the bottom of the sea-" before
the BALLOT of the unprecedented voter. And
now, in these latter days, another new double
headed paramount issue. imperialism and
NIilitarism'' had arisen in the polite east and
Free Silver and Imperialism in the west.
This was done to catchyotes The fellow
in the east who parted his hair in the middle
would vote against NIilitarism. The fellow in
the west who didn't part his hair at all would
vote for free silver, The Irish could vote
against the secret alliance with England and
the German could vote for the Boers of South
Africa! But the unprejudiced voter, be he
or republican, would yoteaccorling
to reason and evidence on the present issues
and when the votes are counted in November
he believed that right would prevail, the pref
dent would be sustained and William McKin-
Icy and Joe Flory would be elected. Thel