Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-10-25

e. Y. Smith, farmer, near Ottawa,
Kan: II voted for Bryan and all the
other fusion candidates four years
ago. but IL | live shall support the
straight Republican ticket this year.
haven't voted the Republican ticket
since the days before the Greenback
party. but you can count me this time
sure"
81 Hughes, Populist, ottawa, Kan:
"The Republican party has done what
We Populists have been striving to ac-
complish, and that was to bring good
times. 1t would not be wise to change
now"
James L. Davis, a lifelong Demo-
crat, Chillicothe, Mo-, who has
stumped the state for the Democrats
for thirty years: "Mr. Mckinley has
done nothing more than his duty I'M
der the treaty Of Paris. For every act
in his administration Mr..
Mckinley had ample authority from
presidents established by Democratic
presidents who preceded him."
Attorney j. 4. Robinson, Fargo, S.
D., who is known throughout the state:
Many Populists who once voted for
Bryan now propose to vote for Nc
Kinley. We never vote to haul down
the flag, and we never vote so as to
encourage armed rebellion. The gen.
uine Populist must be a patriot. We
voted for Bryan as the honest and
able champion of free silver coinage
and monetary expansion. Conditions
have changed; there Is no longer
dearth OF money. That has been well
relieved by the discovery of rich gold
mines, which yield an output Of about
s100, 900, 900 a year, and by the bank
ing and currency act, which add large
ly to the circulating medium. The
circulation is now larger than at any
other time in the history of the coun-
try. The Mckinley administration
has been such as to inspire and retain
the confidence of the nations and the
confidence of the business world, and
the result has been a period Of COM
mercial expansion, OF trade balances,
of thrift and prosperity, such as was
never recorded in the history of any
country"
Judge e. II. Norton. OF Platte City,
Mo-, ex-member of the Missouri Su-
preme Court. an old-time Democrat,
did not approve his party's platform
on the money question in 1896 and he
has not taken up the cry of imperial
ism in this campaign. He regards IL
as false issue and says: 81 regard
1t as a mere blind behind which to
hide the real issue, viz: the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ra-
ito OF 16 to /. The charge Of imper-
ialism Is based by Mr.. Bryan upon the
action of President Mckinley. in en-
deavoring to maintain the authority OF
the United States in the Philippine
islands, by putting down by force the
armed rebellion OF Aguinaldo. re-
gard the silver plank in the platform.
together with the assailment of the
integrity of the courts, as revolution
airy in the extreme-as freighted with
evil-promotive OF disorder and blood
shed-destructive to the best interests
OF the law-abiding-at war with good
government, and an invitation to the
lawless to commit unlawful acts with
impunity."
j. B. Dozier, District Attorney of
Shasta County, Cal, and leading
Democrat OF northern California:
THE great civilization which We have
achieved and our great development
is que 10 the spirit OF expansion. l
beieve the action taken by the gov,
eminent OF the united states IN regard
10 lts foreign poilcy Is risht' Just pro-
gressiye and proper"
John b. Rhoades. proprietor and
operator OF the cotton and wooden
mills at Aston Mills, Delaware Coun-
ty. Pa, several times chairman of the
Delaware County Democratic Com
mittee: II am still a Democrat but
cannot give my support to Bryan. He
is a man who is always trying to
cause a dissatisfaction between the
laboring classes and the capitlists. and
in my judgment these two forces