The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-06-10
GOES BACK ON BRYAN
Gordon Bennett Made Speech
es for Him in 1896.
WILL SUPPORT M'kNLEY
Believes Silver Champion Is
Growing Weaker in South.
WILL SUPPORT M'NNLEY

] Gordan Bennett. an old Idaho miner,
and western politician who has until
| recently been identified with the Demo-
CRAIG party. is in the city on his way
east. Mr.. Bennett is thoroughly &c
quainted with the mining disturbances in
Idaho which is now being investigated
by the government, and to repo ter fcc
the Eagle he expressed his views very
clearly. on the subject
Previous to 1896 Mr.. Bennett was Re-
publican, but when the free silver craze
took hold of the west he went over to
Bryan and made Over 100 speeches in sup
port of the Populist candidate and his
hobby-free silver. Now that the many
foreign complications have arisen IN
Cuba, Porto Rico and the Philippines, he
does not like the stand taken by Bryan
and his imperialism talk and will sup
port the present administration. Speaking
of the political situation, Mr. Bennett
says that Bryan is losing strength In the
south and that If it was not for legal
supremacy Mckinley would carry many
more Of the states south Of the Mason
and Dixie line. His predictions are that
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Tennessee and Kentucky viii be found in
the Mckinley column and that McKin-
Iey's election will be overwhelming
The Democratic party" ne said, has
not developed any smart men. Cleveland
is the brainiest man the party has today.
The Democratic party is not capable of
facing the present conditions. The pres
ent Republican administration is ac-
quainted with the policy outlined and is
capable Of carrying it on to success. The
trust question Will work out itself and
needs no help. I have come out for Nc
Kinley, as the present conditions of the
country demand continuation of Re
publican policies"
Mr. Bennett was asked his views on the
money. colonial, trusts and other ques-
tons with which the country is now
confronted. He said;
THE money question having been set
tied for many years to come, ought not
now to be opened as it would unsettle
busin ass to the injury of all men of small
means, and especially to the laborer and
producer.
THE question of colonial expansion and
the Philippine war has been forced upon
US by. and as a result of, the conflict
with SPAIN and these added responsible
tiles canont be avoided. We therefore
must hold our acquired possessions at
whatever cost. To halt or abandon the
Philippines at this period would be sui
eide and ought not to be thought Of
1.-THE trusts have come to stay and
any legislation for their suppression
would be as futile as the pope's bill
against the convent. Their suppression
by legislative enactment would wi 81 up
the affairs of every labor union - the
land. as any exception in the statute as
to labor bodies would render the law void,
as being class legislation, and as or
ganized labor is the largest and most
powerful trust we have these men will
not vote to annihilate themselves. The
trusts, therefore. being a step in the
evolution Of the century just closing
must be left to work out its own de-
struction. The trust is an education and
in this school the apt student sees the
dawn of that day when one universal
trust shall include all the people"
Mr.. Bennett is familiar with the Occur
d'AIene matter in Idaho, and regarding
it he said:
"As early as 1890 certain disputed ques-