New-York tribune., 1900-10-18
COL. KEITT FOR NKINL Ely
CONFEDERATE OFFICER, SOUTHERN
PLANTER AND LIFELONG DEMO
Graf FOR EXPANSION AND
PROGRESS.
PROGRESS

Colonel Ellison S. Keitt, of South Carolina a
I Confederate officer who took part in the bonn
! bardment of Fort Sumter. and witnessed It's sur
render by Major Anderson. has been a lifelong
| Democrat but he said yesterday at the Fifth
| Avenue Hotel that he going to vote for
Mckinley and Roosevelt. Colonel Keitt is a
Newberry County planter and influential in his
State
'Bryan's professed principles are repugnant
to the independent Democrats throughout the
South" said Colonel Keitt "and If the Repuh-
can managers had started in on the campaign
with correct methods in South Carolina and
Georgia they would have carried both of those
States. My immediate neighbors know that I'm
going to vote for Mckinley and Roosevelt and
1 don't mind having people outside the state
know it. I not looking after anything IN
politics, and 1 believe in expressing my honest
conviction. Mckinley is the greatest President
this country has ever had, judged by actual
accomplishments, and his letter of acceptance
is the abest State document issued by any
President since the Civil War
IF a Democratic President had done with the
Philippines what Mckinley has done there never
would have been a protest from the Democratic
party. Mr.. Bryan is a shallow man. His rant
ing about the consent of the governed is non
sense. He hasn't read Democratic history or he
would know better. Under Mckinley this coun-
try has territorially expanded 100000 square
miles in the taking over of the Philippines. I'm
der jefferson it expanded 100000 square miles
without the consent of the governed, too New
Mexico and Arizona are being governed without
the consent of the governed, far as their
aspirations for Statehood CO. When Congress
considers that those Territories fit for State
hood they will be admitted, and not before The
people of South Carolina don't want the Stars
and Stripes hauled down in the Philippines.
The question of government is largely one OF
business. The consciences of the people will keep
the standard of morality high Government
should be scientifically conducted in order to
guarantee 'the highest possible reward for our
energies peacefully expended The Philippines
our people that we want to sell our Southern
cotton in Asia, and that expansion is the best
thing in the world for US
Mckinley has been right all along the line.
Some of his appOintees have turned out bad but
what of that2 The general policy is the thing to
look at. Under his Administration this country
is about 81, 200, 100000 better off than it was
four years ago, after we had had fair trial OF
the Wilson bill. We float our bonds at Z per
cent, while at the same time we are lending
money to England at about per cent.
"Our progress for the last four years has
made us a lending Nation and given US financial
liberty. Financial liberty is a wonderful thing
when you come to consider it. There's nothing
sordid about it. Bryan cannot win. The longer
he talks the thinner his arguments become. he
doesn't take the time necessary to study the
Industrial and economic situation thoroughly
He gets a smattering OF facts here ana there
and blazes away at imaginary chronic ailments
in the body polite. He'll always have big fol-
lowing but 1t will never be big enough to elect
him President.