Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1900-08-31
spend the rest of your days as a
victim of those unceasing blood
suckers.
McKinley's Election Would Endanger tn,
Republic.

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One of the most enthusiastic BRYAN
supporters in Kansas Is DIR. L. D. Nc
Kinley. of Topeka, cousin of Pres
ident Mckinley. He says his relative
has been false to the traditions of the
Mckinley family, has turned his back
upon the people and is governed by
men and policies which threaten the
life of the republic. Upon the request
of the Kansas State Register, DR.. Nc.
Kinley herewith gives his reasons for
supporting Bryan:
''I have often been asked if will
vote for Mckinley next November?
My answer invariably is no. Why
should 1? 1t is true we are descended
from the same ancestor. We are con.
nected with an ancestral line running
back through Scotch Highland his.
tory for nine hundred years, a line of
patriots whose blood has stained every
battlefield from Bannockburn to
Flodden and from Flodden to Cullo-
den. while defending their homes
against British greed. And during
the Colonial days in this country they
fought for the same Gauss and against
the same oppressor. When this gov.
eminent was born it was christened
by the blood of our fathers and made
sacred by the tears of our mothers.
''Although our family has given one
king to Scotland and one President to
the United States, we are but plebians.
PLAIN people, who have never asked
anything of the governments under
which we have lived except to be pro-
tected in the enjoyment of our national
rights to life, liberty and the pursuit
of happiness.
| "For nine hundred years we have
believed that governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the
governed. Then why should we be
asked to support one of our family for
the highest Office in the gift of the Am.
erican people, who has turned his back
on all the sacred traditions and mem.
ores and beliefs of our fathers and has
| allowed himself to be made the mouth
piece and cats paw of that greedy
horde of Shylocks that have crushed
liberty and oppressed labor through
the control of governments in all the
ages past and whose pressure is now
| felt in every house in this country.
Mckinley. the citizen, governed by
the dictates of an inherited good con.
science, as he once was, is a noble
ideal. While Mckinley, the represen.
tative of oppression and greed is all
that is ugly and hateful and vicious.
He represents party who has not to-
day one solitary patriotic claim upon
the American people for recognition
He stands before the would as the
mouth piece for Wall street, for I'm.
perialism, for the trusts, for the de.
graduation of labor-in a word, for the
whole foul brood of deadly beaks,
thrust into every material inter.
est in this country, thereby sapping
our government and slowly but surely
enslaving its people.
''1n view of all this, why should 1.
or any of the name or blood, so far
forget the sacred tradition and teach.
ings of patriotic ancestry and give
our support to one of our people. who
has nothing in common with us but
the name. especially when we have
presented to US for our support
leader, although not of our name and
lineage. but who is an earnest, fearless
advocate of all those principles that
our family have held in sacred vener.
alton so long.
There are four great names in his
tory that in my judgment stand out in
line far IN advance of all other illus
trious names: Christ. Wallace; JEFF.
ferson and Lincoln. Christ stood upon
the shores of Galilee and preached the
brotherhood of man to the toiler as he
cast his nets into the sea. 1t was to
him glad tidings. 1t was the message
that the toilers all along the ages had
been listening for.
:'Wallace. the unpurchasable patriot,
fought the hordes of greed and oppres-
sion in the glens and highlands of Scot
land and preserved to the people the
enjoyment of their homes and friends