Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-09-15

ccts thinking meu O1 every CLASS, cou-
dition and color, are Fastening to ally
themselves with Mr.. Bryan on the side
of the Republic against the Empire.
Rev. Wallace B. Struble, national sec
rotary of the United Christian Party,
Vice President Of the Young Peoples
Temperance Federation of America,
leader of the MONDAY temperance meet
ing in Willard Hall. New York, noted
evangelist and a lifelong Republican,
has renowned the Mckinley Hanna
party and rendered his services to the
Democratic National Committee for
this campaign for the purpose of assist
ing in the election of Bryan and Stew
enson
Lew Wallace, Jr.. son of the famous
Indiana soldier. statesman and poet.
announces that he will vote for Bryan.
In notable instance says Mr.. Wallace,
Mckinley has violated his oath of of
fee and no trust can be placed in him.
On the contrary, Bryan is man true
to his faith and steadfast"
Patrick A. Collins, friend and trust
ed adviser of Tilden, Cleveland and
other great leaders of this generation,
a gold Democrat, if there is one. and
easily one of the foremost men of his
party in New England for 80 years past.
THE only remedy l, as a Democrat.
can see for existing political and indus
trial evils" says Mr.. Collins. SIS TO vote
the straight Democratic ticket. The
issue, in my own judgement, is the in
tegrity of the Republic under the Dec
laration of independence and the Goa
stitution."
Bishop ]. Milton Turner, of st. Louis,
at one time U. S. Minister to Liberia
and a much admired Republican ora
tor. is arranging to take the stump for
Bryan. Mr.. Turner says the negro
soldiers who served during the war
with Spain, acutely resent Roosevelt's
declarations that he had to 'shove the
niggers" out of the way at San Juan
Hill. Turner will organize club of
negro Spanish war veterans to fight
Roosevelt.
Sidney Egerton. former governor of
Ohio, and one of the fourteen surviv-
ing members of the historic convention
at which the Republican party was
founded, has recently declared in an
open letter, that he will vote for Bryan.
He states that the party of Hanna and
Mckinley is Republican only in name
and he can no longer affiliate with it.
Hon. S. C. Burdette, of Charleston,
W. Va, has just resigned the office of
Assistant U. S. District Attorney, to
which he was appointed by the Admin
istration. He renounces his allegiance
TO the Republican party and takes the
stump for Bryan. Mr.. Burdette was as
sistant to Hon. ]. Fl. Gaines, U. S. Dis
trict Attorney, who is also the present
Republican candidate for Congress
from the Third W. Va, District
Hon. John L. Waller, who was U. S.
Consul to Madagascar under President
Harrison, and later a captain in the
Twenty-third Kansas Volunteer In
fantry, which did valiant service in
the Spanish war, is one of the leading
colored men In the country. He
stumped the country for eight years I'M
der the auspices of the Republican Ma
tional Committee and is now largely in
terested in enterprises in Cuba. Writ
ing from Santiago, August goth, to A.
e. Manning, of Indianapolis, Capt.
Waller says: Il have just read Col.
Bryan's masterful effort at Indianapo-
lis-his speech accepting the Demo-
cratic nomination for President of the
United States. His speech will read
well besides those of the great Lincoln.
Set me down for William Jennings
| Bryan"
G. H. Reeves, former Republican
State Senator from Plymouth, Ind,
formally left the Republican party on
September Sd, and announced to his
| friends that he will vote for Bryan.
Hon. Joseph G. Orr, of South Bend,
Ind, one of the leading Republicans OF
! that State and the foremost member of
| the Northern Indiana Bar, writes TO
! Mayor Taggart. of Indianapolis: AT
ter giving considerable thought to the
| matter / have concluded that imperial
| ism is in fact, as the Kansas City Plat
| form declares, the paramount issue |
have decided to support Bryan. II
| can be OF service TO your committee on
the stump or elsewhere, call on me-"
James Godfrey, of Columbus, Ind, a
retired farmer OF great influence, who
| has been leader In Republican ranks
| for many years, announces through the
local papers that he has severed all
| connections with the Republican party
and will work and vote for Bryan.
| Hon. Bennett Mecum, OF indianapolis
writes: While q Republican for So
years and an old war veteran, / cannot
eonscientiously support the Republican
ticket this year and shall vote for
| Bryan"
Ex-Mayor Robert e. McKisson, OF
Cleveland, lifelong Republican, has
declared himself for Mr.. Bryan this
year.
Judge t. c. Martin, Of Waukesha
| Wis. member of the Republican com
| mittee. has resigned from that body
and will support Bryan and the Kansas
City Platform.
Washington J.. Tenant. one OF the
| most influential Republicans in Scho-
| harie county, n. Y, and an orator OF
note, has announced his detection from
the Republican party and will take the
| stump for Bryan.
Mr.. Harry II. Smith, of Detroit and
Washington, the well known parliament
| tartan and Republican politician. and
| former Tally Clerk of the House oil
| Representatives, has severed his con-
nections with the Republicans and re-
| ported for duty at Democratic State
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