The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-16
BRYAN AND THE GERMANS.
LATTER EsTRANGED BY THE KAN
sAs CITY PLATFORM.
VIII Not Have I6 to I, and Are Not
Lured From Honest Money by the
Cry of Anti-Impe riaIfsm-Prom

CHICAGO. July 5.-German-Americans
Of the Middle West dislike william Jen
nings Bryans free silver theories now as
much as they did in 1886. The Is to dose
has not been made more palatable to
them By fiavoring it with anti imperial
ism and prof. oer declarations
Representative German-Americans in
Chicago and Milwaukee say so Public
sentiment in St. Louis and Cincinnati and
other typical centers Of Germanic
thought and influence runs in the same
direction. While a tendency 10 desert
President Mckinley on the Boer and
''imperialistic' issues has been proclaim
ed all over the Western country. and
more than half believed by many, 1t APP
pears 10 have been effectually stopped.
If it ever existed when Bryan insisted
upon reiteration Of the silver plank OF
1886 in the Democratic national platform.
For Gold standard.
II find more Germans who care for the
gold standard and want II protected
said William Boldenweck to the Times
Herald yesterday, than | do Germans
who are concerned about so-called i'm
p~rialism. Intelligent people-and the
Germans are intelligent-know that there
could be no alliance with England or
any other nation without action by con-
gross. and such action could not he kept
secret 80 this talk Of a secret alliance
with England does not amount TO any
thing. The Germans wasn't the gold stan
dard, and / believe will vote again Il
keep IT. Tho Democrats did a good work
for us when they put 16 TO | into the
platform again"
1T IS hard to speak for the German cit
liens said T, j. Lefens. They usually
think and speak for themselves, But /
believe whatever dissatisfaction there
may have been among Germans with the
Mckinley admiristra ton has been done
away with by the restoration Of is to I
by the Democratic national convention
! have not made this the subject of spe-
clal inquiry. but among my friends I
do no, know OF one man who voted for
Mckinley in 1896 who will not vote for
him again this year against Bryan and
Is to !. When the Democrats put Is to
into the platform they put in saving
clausez-for Mckinley
The question of how the Germans are
going to vote this year Ia easy TO ask but
hard TO answer" said Joseph Brucker,
editor Of the Stats Zeitung las mem
Der OF the Republican stnte committees
subcommittee on literature. I am taking
steps TO ascertain the situation exactly.
but have not secured definite results "a
yet. so far as my personal observation
goes among business men and other
friends OF Democratic inClnations. | find
mat they cannot stand Is 10 l, so en-
phatically reiterated as II Is In the Kan
sas City platform. This silver business
IL a monomania with Bryan. His adher-
enee 20 II in 1895 might have been ex.
cused as a political mistake but to in
sist upon Il now savors OF fanaticism.
The Germans are sound money people.
and will. believe. vote that way in the
fall"
Sentiment In Milwaukee.
II am no Bryan man" said Moritz Won
Bnumbach, banker and old-tme Demo.
crHt of Milwaukee. II am a Gold Demo-
crat. and Will support no candidate on
a i6 to I platform. I think the German
Democrats generally will not do so, but
can speak positively only for myself
Former Senator Yahr. If the Charles
paumbach Company. Of Milwaukee. said:
II am opposed 70 10 to I. II Is idle TO talk
of anything but "A monetary basis recog-
nzed nv the whole world Still. there
are other things. the trusts. for instance
~ which we have some knowledge, Hon
estly. I cannot say on which side Of the
fence 7 shall drop shall have to think
u over for while longer. think the
Democrats might have had n chance TO
win n they had left that rs 20 / plank
k.s.f al, 4.