The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1900-09-05
LIFE LONG
Republican Comes Out This
Year For ISryan.

UNION, w. VA, Aug. 26.- Hon.
Lewis Ballard, a life long republi-
can and for years one of the lead.
ers of that party in Monroe county,
has come out in an open letter de-
olaring that he will vote for Bryan
and Stevenson this year. He
writes from his home at PeterstownH
a long letter from which the follow
ing extracts are taken:
1.-The impression has gons out
and is trying to be forced upon the
public, and especially the republi-
cans, that 1 have changed my views
and deserted the republican
party and republican principles
for which / have SO earnestly con
tended for 30 years. L assure. my
republican friends that 1 today be-
lieve as firmly in the truths of the
original republican party as 1 ever
did The republican party was
founded and built upon the doc
trine of the declaration of our ma
tionnl Independence.
"As 1 have always understood it,
tile self.evident truths of liberty
and self-goyernment by the oon-
sent of the governed were the cor
ner stones of our republican party.
1t now makes modern Hannaite
blush to read the declaration of our
independence or to have it's Ian
guage quoted to him.
"Only week or ten days ago
one of the satellites of the new de-
parture of Mark Hanna republican,
ism said to me that the declara-
ton eff independce was lie on it's
face.
II today stand by and with Lin
coin, and believe in his republican
ism as firmly as ever did. 1 do not
believe our government, establish
ed by our forefathers, is perfect
government but [ do believe it is
the best governmet devised by NOR
tai man to regulate it's own affairs
and the worst to regulate and
govern others. Republican govern
ment cannot govern foreign colo
MES. 1t requires kings and en-
perors to do this.
"Yes, [ will support Bryan. He
gets his inspiration from that same
declaration of independence that |,
an old-fashioned republican, be-
lieve in and he has the honest man
hood to let us know just what he
stands for. I shall vote for him,
not because he is Democrat OF
because he is Populist or free
silver Republican. But L shall
vote for him for his true Ameri-
canism and because he stands in
the footprints of Washington, of
Jefferson and is Republican of
the Lincoln type and does not
cringe at the crack of the whip of
Mark Hanna, or the sugar trust,
the tobacco trust, the oil trust or
the whiskey trust"
George j. Thompson, a lawyer at
Anderson, Monroe county, who is a
prominent citizen and a life long
Republican, is out in an upon let
ter in which he asserts that he can
not support the Republican ticket
He says the party in West Virgin
ia is principally controlled by men
who left the Democratic party in
search of Office and that the sons
of rich mon and the relatives of
those whom fortune has favored
have been largely selected to fill
official positions, regardless of fit.
ness, while deserving Republicans
have been turned down.
The bolt of tho colored men
from the republican party in this
State will mean a great deal on
election day. Such men as Rev.
Daniel w. Shaw, pastor of the
largest colored church in Charles
ton, college graduate and man
of much influence with his race,
Prof. FL. O. Barnett, of Hunting
ton, a successful oolored educator.
and others of their standing are
taking the stand this year that the
negro must out loose as race from
the republican party. Prof. Bar
nett is editing a paper with a large
circulation among the colored peo-
pie of the State and their work |
among the colored men of the
State will make great change in
the negro vote this year.