The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-10-25

Insurance Co., New York: "Republi-
canism stands for all that will benefit
trade, commerce and the industrial
welfare of the entire country"
Morgan Green. cashier Of the Bank
of Mckenzie, Mckenzie, Tenn: 81
will cast my first Republican vote this
fall for Mckinley and Roosevelt and
the straight Republican ticket. I have
voted the Democratic ticket for thirty
years without a scratch, and have
always given literally to the
campaign fund. I voted against
Mr.. Mckinley four years ago
because / believed that the gold
standard would take away what
money was in circulation. This was
what my party said would be the re-
suit, and I believed it. MI. Mckinley
was elected, and all have profted by
the result. The gold standard re-
stored confidence and opened the mills,
furnaces and shops and farms. l do
not propose to experiment any more.
[ am going to vote for the policy that
%prospered us under Harrison and Nc
Kinley. From this day l am an all
wool, yard-wide Republican" e
Jay Williams, leading attorney,
Salisbury, Md: II could not vote for
VIM. j. Bryan in the presidential
campaign Of 1896. I have now the
same reason for declining to vote for
Mr.. Bryan. His letter of acceptance
and oft-repeated declarations on the
subject show his desire to give us free
silver at the ratio of 16 to / just as
soon as he can. I have been pleased
with the present administration, with
the progress we have made under it,
with the present splendid financial
condition of this country"
w. s. McChesney, Sr., v~ice-presi-
dent Of the Mexican Veterans Asso-
citation and postmaster Of Lexington
KY, under Grover Cleveland, will sup
port Mckinley in the presidential race
this year. Mr.. McChesney has been q
consistent Democrat for years and was
led to take this step by Mr.. Bryan's
attitude or the question of imperialism
He says: 1.-THE soldiers and honor O
u country should follow the flag. No
patriotic citizen car fail to support the
party that Is for the prosecution oil
the struggle to the end. We veterans
are for fighting it out when we begin.
When the Philippines are brought I'M
der control and the honor of the flag
vindicated it will then be time enough
to talk of the kind of government
they can have" .
John F. Moors, Fall River, Mass:
Il am a sound money Democrat and an
anti-imperialist. Let the nation
dream great dreams, let 1t seek high
ideals, but let it not forget that the
rule Of 10000, 900 people is a mighty
responsibility, not to be idly entrusted
to a young man with Authorizations,
who always appears with a ~cure-all.
Do not Bryan's managers smile as he
changes his bait and draws into his
net the anti-imperialists
John F. Vale, Denver, Colo: 1T
is manifest that the present Democrat
ic idea is not bimetallism, but infla-
ton, with fiat imitation preferred.
True bimetallists look to the smelters
and the stamp mills, and not to the
pulp mills, for money material"
W. H. Bright. formerly Of the Daily
Times, Portsmouth, o., who has been
an active Democrat for many years:
Prosperity"
Col. James Matlack Scovel, of Phil.
adelphia, the veteran of many a
Democratic campaign: "The admin
i~stration is all right. Bryan is a dem
agogue."
John Gregor Olson of Fort Ransom,
N. D., one of the brightest young
Scandinavians in the country, has
abandoned the Bryan cause. Mr.. Oh
son is a teacher and farmer and is an
influential member of the community.
Prosperity and expansion.
J.. E. Defebaugh, editor American
Lumberman, Chicago: "Mr. Bryan is
well suited to the party and the prin-
ciples which he represents. His
prophecies, and even his absolute as
sertion of four years ago, have been
proved false, but he learns nothing.
He would subject the Supreme Court
to executive influence welded by him
self; he is the apostle Of every finan-
cial fallacy; he Is the champion Of
every foolish or dangerous dogma; he
would be the promoter Of business and
social anarchy. Such principles, such
a party, and such a candidate, 1 can
not support"
Ex-Assemblyman Lyman W. Red
ington, of New York, a bred-in-the-
bone Democrat: "The Philippines are
legally the property of the United
States and any Of it's natives opposing
our sovereignty are rebels. Hence l
maintain that legally, morally and
commercially our Philippine policy
must be maintained and the Democrat
ic party defeated in the campaign"
S. L. Smith, mine owner, Detroit,
Mich: -Four years ago thought
Bryan was sincere. Now I think he
has proven himself an arrant dema-
gogue. I am a Democrat and Mr.. Jas.
H. Eckles, President Cleveland's
Comptroller of the Currency, has ex-
pressed my views to a nicely"