Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1900-08-14
4 Significant Kansas Canvass.

The Kansas City Journal sends East
many good word from Kansas and
the middle West. In a late issue it
had political canvass made by a cor
respondent of township. selected by
chance, in Jefferson county. The arti-
Gle furnished an exceedingly interest
ing and promising story of political
reimbursement in the Sunflower state.
The canvass was made by CORES
pondent of the Journal as vertical
ton of the Republican state commit
tees report on that township. The
committees report was verified in
every particular, there being so
| changes from Bryan to Mckinley and
none from Mckinley to Bryan, and of
| the eight gold Democrats of the town.
ship who voted for Palmer and Buck
ner or Mckinley and Hobart in 1896,
five declared their intention to support
| the Republican ticket this year.
| AS this township, which was selected
by chance for investigation, may be
regarded as pretty good test of polit-
| ical sentiment in Kansas, the report is
very significant. The names of those
who have changed from Bryan to Nc
Kinley are given, and most of them
gave their reasons for changing. These
reasons are timely and instructive
coming from professional men, mer-
chants, farmers, mechanics and labor
ers. Among the sentiments expressed
may be mentioned the following:
1T has been demonstrated that we
have an abundance of money, and the
laboring people are having a chance
to earn good wages. Farmers are pros
porous and business in general is good
There is no reason to trade off a Ger
tainty for an uncertainty
1T is impossible for me, with my
love of Americanism, to support
ticket whose main issue is the hauling
down of the American flag"
Il think that the future success of
the country depends upon the success
of the Republican party. The most
disastrous thing that could happen at
this time would be the election of {.
Democratic president"
Il have no confidence in the Demo-
cratic professions of liberty and free
dom, as their past history will not bear
them out. If they believe in equal
rights, why do they not encourage a
whites?''
when Bryan, in 1885, declared that
the success of Republicans meant s.
cent corn and 25-cent wheat, fore
closure of mortgages on farms and the
starvation of laboring people, l actual
ly took some stock in his prophecies
But he has proven a false prophets If
he was wrong in his prophecies then
why should we listen to his prophecies
now"
This talk about consent of the gov
erned,' coming from Democrats, is
ridiculous. That doctrine is not men,
| toned in North Carolina and other
Southern states"
Il have become Disguised with the
sympathy the Pops profess for the
| laboring man. 1t is bogus"
Plenty of work and good times have
changed me from Bryanite to a Nc
Kinley man. Bryan caught us four
years ago with his alarmist speeches
He will not do it again."
Il have had plenty of work the past
| three years. That's what interests
me-"
| Il have made money farming under
Mckinley. 1t kept me scratching to
make living under Cleveland
Il am for prosperity and the flag"
I'VE should not swap horses in the
middle of the stream
My motto is, Let good enough
alone
The Republicans gave us what they
said they would-good times. That is
why 1 am for Mckinley"
Il voted for Bryan in SO because l
thought he would bring prosperity. He
lost. The Republicans have brought
it, and I am for Mckinley"
These good and sufficient reasons will
apply as well in other states as in
Kansas.