The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-29
WHITE BEAVER HITS HARD
REPLIES TO THOSE WHO CRITICTSN
HIM FOR DECLARING FOR
BRYAN
NO USE FOR GOV. ROOSEVELT
His SombrerO PIumed With Eagle
Feathers Stolen From the Bon
nets of the "Nigger
Ninth.o

To the Editor-A letter of mine, pub
lished a few weeks ago in the La Crosse
(Wis.) Daily Press and other papers, in
which stated that L would vote for
Bryan, although L am not Democrat,
has brought me many letters through
the mails-some of censure, others of
praise. find a number from La Crosse.
my present stand because of the fact
that l was honored by the president by
being made an officer of high rank in
the Spanish-American war. knowing the
writer to be an honest man, though always
harsh in his judgment of those differing
from him on any subject, and because
OF my love for La Crosse and old Wis
cons1n, peopled with citizens who have
always treated me most kindly, I ask of
you space in which to give my reasons
for being a Bryan man. believing that
all right thinking men will allow me to
follow the path that seems to me right
That Mr.. Mckinley gave me commits
sion as ranking major in one of his ten
specially organized regiments is true.
but no one should assume that his act
was intended to make me supporter of
the Republican party, nor that in Accept
ing l bound myself to it. But that is
neither here nor there. My reasons for
supporting Bryan are the same that have
made temporary Democrats of thousands
OF republicans, and will elect Demo-
cratic president this year
To begin with, / am opposed to a presi-
dent who is mentally vacillating, and in
one address to the people of the country
says that it is the plain duty of the
United States to grant certain rights to
Porto Rico, and a few weeks afterwards
hnds 1t his plain duty to impose upon
its people obligations the very reverse. l
cannot support president who, while a
member of congress, made the strongest
speech of his life in advocating equal
rights at the minis for both gold and sill
yer, and when the opportunity came to
prove the sincerity of his utterances gave
them the lie direct by using the power of
office to Kill one of the leading industries
of the nation.
cannot support president who sends
United States regulars to the Bunker
Hill mines to bull pen,' maltreat, intim-
ldate and beggar thousands of men at
the behest of the Standard Oil company,
VINO owns the mines. [ cannot support
an administration that allows one of its
heads of departments to buy the support
of Carnegie by allowing him to rob the
nation by imposing double and treble
price for armor plate, that he may boast
OF an income nine and seven-eights
times as large as that of the queen of
England
cannot support president who allow
ed Marcus A: Hanna and few others to
take up his financial obligations, in order
that the power over him thus secured
would enable them to rule the people in
lieu of the chief executive elected by the
people.
I cannot support president who In
defiance of the constitution which de-
ciares that all men are equal de-
cides that unto part of the citizens
of the United States shall be doled out
such a measure of equality as he and
not the constitution shall deem sufficient
for them.
ignoring constitutional amendment
supports with monev collected from the
people OF this country barbarian polyg-
and who through his suzerainty be-
comes the alder, abettor and supporter
OF the slave-owning sultan of Su1u
o., 81 cannot support president who re-
FUSED to see or talk to the ENJOYS of the
Boer republic through fear of offending
the british crown, and who while refus-
ing the representatives Of a people fight
ing for freedom. hearing was nego-
tating with slave-owning despot and
opngatng the American people to sup.
port IN barbaric splendor the head in his
nauon or the Mohammedan religion
l cannot support a president whose
pollcV in Cuba has made this country the
laughing stock of nations and our postal
service by word of reproach.
cannot support a president who has
Sent Sent thousands Of our youths to the
rtnlilpp9ines. there to die fighting nation
steruggLIng for freedom, that the words
OF a United States senator might be
made true when he said "such thing as
| the constitution should not stand be-
| tween friends when there is money in
cannot support a president whose
| mouth piece and master says there are
no trusts and every intelligent person in
|
! the prices of food we eat the clothes we
| wear, yes. even the Bibles we try to con-
sole ourselves with when we see the in
| fanny and injustice of monopoly and uu-
| to-date ReDublicanism, the collins where
| In we are laid when dead, and the tomb
stones that tell who we were.
cannot support president weak
enough to aspire to become the emperor
| OF collection of islands that would re-
| cure cement made with the blood of
our youths to hold them together nor one
L W0llId for oI1r
| imperialism to be whispered into his
ear without reprimand:ng his advisor. nor
enc VINO would impose upon every work
! ingman at home the support of an unWiIi.
| Ing soldier abroad
No! No! I cannot vote the Republican
ticket this fall; "the full dinner pail
as 1t is with food earned by the labor Of
elght-year-old slate pickers at the coal
Mines mines. The the -, tears of wretched miners
oil light, and workers in sweat shops-
q filled, indeed. with the signs of small
: merchants bankrupted by the trusts and
Ito live-not only the sweat of theiI
brows but the shortened years of drudg-
ing lives.
Let the Republican party have four
years more of power and they will SC
fasten imperialism, militarism, trustism
and the other curses Of their policy upor
the people that not even a revolution
could undo their work
The old Roman emperors were elected
and perpetuated in power by the armies
over which they had previously beer
commanders. The people of imperial
tons. but upon the ruins of plundered
provinces. When Rome had 5000, O0(
Inhabitants there were within its walls
less than 100000 free men and women
and all this came about through the
same policy now being advocated by
the Republican party. and yet like
America, Rome was in it's beginning the
| refuge of the oppressed the home IF An
homeless, a sanctuary of safety
I am afraid of Imperialism, in fear of a
policy leading to the formation of a large