Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-14


land could not think of voting for
him this year,
NJ. G. Collins, a banker and life
long republican, of Peotone, Ill, an
nounces his unqualified support of
Bryan this year. Il believe that MIR.
Bryan's position on imper .alism and
militarism is right, - says Mr.. Collins,
land 1 believe that issue to be the
most important one now bsfore the
American people"
James Alexander, of Lockport, Ill.
another lifelong repu blican and pres
ident of the viii County Farmers In
stitute, announces that he will SUPPL
port Bryan. "McKinley's colonia
policy ls dangerous departing from
repu blican institutions" says Mr..
Alexander, land / cannot support
him"
Former Gov. Andrew j. Felt. one
of the leading republicans of Kansas,
announces that he will support the
democratic state and national tickets
this fall. ''In this campaign my
duty as a citizen leads me to cast my
ballot for Americans who still be-
lieve that the legend upon the dollar,
in God We Trust, is a nobler ideal
than the new Mark Hanna version,
In the Trusts We Find Our Gods"
Herman G. Mueller, a prominent
German manufacturer of Evansville.
O., also quits the republican party.
In an open letter to the German citi-
zens of Akron, he says: "Militarism
will, if successful, in time create q
monarchy. l think, therefore, 8
standing army a menace to peace.
Monarchies are always created in
time of war and national OF, interna-
tional friction. Therefore, ! am un-
alterably opposed to the policy of i'm
perialism haugurated by the McKin-
ley administration.
Paul G. Schulz, of Cairo, ILL.,, head
of one of the largest drug companies
in southern Illinois and lifelong re-
publican. is out for Bryan. Il can
not indorse the policy of imperialism
adopted by this administration. Mill
tarism and all its attendant evils
would be the ruin of this republic.
and therefore / am for Bryan and
Stevenson"
M. G. G. Church, of Petersburg,
w. Va, one of the founders OF the re-
publican party, who established and
for four years edited staunch repub-
lican paper. the State journal, saws:
There is no repu blican party in the
old sense. Its cycle of use closed
with the ruling power back of the
throne. and the modern master of i'm
perialism, materialism and McKin-
leyism, Mark Hanna. There is no
longer any reason why true republi-
cans should not vote for Bryan. the
chosen leader of the people, in this
crisis of our country"
John F. Finerty, former republican
congressman and leader of the Chica-
go Irish-Americans and president of
the United Irish societies of Chicago,
says: mo self-respecting Irishman
can support the foreign policy of
President Mckinley"
Alexander Elias, of New York, who
has been on the road" for Ii years
and voted for Mckinley in 1896, says:
Il have just completed 4 business
"trip through Michigan. Indiana, Illi-
nois. Wisconsin and Minnesots, and
from what have heard from my Gus
toners and others believe that BRYAN
will carry every one of those states.
[ voted for Mckinley in 1896, but
Am going to vote for Bryan this time
because l have got through being
bunkoed by party which is sold out
to the trusts"
Former District Judge j. A. Bur
nette, of Caldwell. Kan, lifelong re-
publican, says: Il hope to live long
enough to see an American president
elected and the last vestige of impe-
rialism forever crushed ont of this
country; for this reason | shall vote
for Bryan for president this fall"
In addition to these, many more
names of prominent republicans and
national democrats. could be given
who have determined to take the side
of Bryan this fall. Among them NAV
be mentioned Henry Watterson and
W. B. Haldeman, of the Louisville
Courier-JouIn4l, one of Palmer and
Buckner's stanchest supporters four
years ago; Arthur Ford, a prominent
Kentuckian; DR.. J.. w. Habercom,
the best known German correspon-
dent in the United States, who has q
clientele of more than one hundred
influential German newspapers in
this country. and who swung them
all in line for Mckinley four years
ago; Webster Davis. late assistant
secretary of the interior, who was
forced out of the Mckinley admins
tration by the anti-Boer at .itude of
the president; George l.. Wellington,
United States senator from Maryland,
elected as a republican, and who de-
nounces Mckinley as treacherous and
un-American; Patrick Collins, of Bos-
ton, late United States consul general
at London; Patrick Egan. former
minister to Chill under President Har-
rison, and many others equally prom
inent and influential.