Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-09-15
FLOCKING TO BRYAN.
Prominent Mem From all Over
the Country.

- AHnuuuce u JnanSe III lnttf fOsiticai
III Faith-SeYeraI of Them are Citizens
OF This State-The Rush has Become
1 Regular Stampede-List of Latest
Acquisitions.
On WASHINGTON, Sept 15--The pro-
csesSion has become stampede. In
every section of the country leaders Of
thought and action. honest, thinking
4 men of every class. condition and col
or, are fastening to ally themselves
] with w. j. Bryan on the side OF the
Republic against the Empire.
Rev. Wallace b. Struble, National
secretary of the United Christian
party, vice president of the Young
Peoples Temperance Federation of
America, life long Republican, has
renounced the Mckinley Hanna party
and rendered his services to the DEM
ocratic National committee to assist
in the election of Bryan and Steven
son.
Lew Wallace, Jr., son of the famous
1lndiana soldier, statesman and poet,
Fannounces that he will vote for Bryan.
Patrick A. Collins, friend and
trusted adviser of Tilden, Cleveland
\ and other great leaders of this genera
tion, gold democrat, if there is one,
and easily one Of the foremost men OF
b his party in New England for 80 years
2 past, says: "The only remedy /, as
Democrat, can see for existing politi
cal and industrial evils is to vote the
straight democratic ticket,
Bishop J Milton Turner, OF st.
Louis, at one time United States min
lister to Liberia and much admired
Republican orator, is arranging TO
take the stump for Bryan. Mr.. Tur-
ner says the negro soldiers who served
during the war with Spain acutely re-
sent Roosevelts declarations that he
had to ssshoye the niggersa out OF the
way at San Juan Hill.
Sidney Egerton, of Ohio ne Of the
IA surviving members OF historic
convention at which tho paolican
party was founded. has eently de-
clared in an open letter that he will
! vote for Bryan.
S. o. Bufdette, of CHI ston, W.
Va, has just resigned IL se of as
sistant United States dis - attor-
ney, to which he was appointed by
this administration. He renounces
b his allegiance to the Republican party
and takes the stump for Bryan.
John l.. Waller, who was United
States CONSUL at Madagascar under
President Harrison and later cap
tain in the Twenty third Kansas vol
unteer infantry, is one of the leading
colored men of the country. He is
now for Bryan.
G. III. 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.
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 Tagart, of indianapolis, F" AT
ter giving considerable thought to the
matter, / have concluded that imper-
alism is in fact, as the Kansas City
platform declares, the paramount is
sue have decided to support Bryan. :"
Ex- Mayor Robert e. McKisson, of
Cleveland, lifelong Republican, has
declared himself for Mr.. Bryan this
year.
Harry III. Smith, of Detroit and
Washington, well-known parliament
tartan and Republican politician, and
former tally clerk of the House of
Representatives, has severed his con-
nections with the Republicans and re-
ported for duty at Democratic State
headquarters at Detroit.
Edward M. Shepard, of New York
City, vigorous opponent Of Bryan In
1896, and leading fnancier in Wall
i street, announces that he will vote
B for Bryan this year. He says: 1--WE
L must preserve our ideal of democratic
government at whatever price. ;"
n Mr.. Shepard also announces that he
y is authorized to state that his friends
a. Augustus Healy, now in Europe,
/ and Harrington Putnam, now on the
\ Pacific coast, twill be glad to have it
& known that the welfare OF the coun-
try, in their opinion, requires the sup
= port OF the Democratic ticket.
The Chamberlain Manufacturing
Company, of Hudson, Mich, the larg-
est concern in the city, which four
years ago supported mckinley and
prosperity, has this year papered its
front windows with likenesses Of Bry
an, and the president OF the company
says: Gas soon as our Nebraska Presi-
dent takes the reins Of Government in
his hands, this company will begin
anew the manufacture OF horseless
carriages with Is spokes to one
wheel
But the list OF recent prominent
Republicans who have recently left
their party to join the Bryan ranks is
altogether too long for detailed men,
ton. Among scores OF those who
have thus placed themselves in line
for the Republic as against the Em-
pire, should be mentioned Sigmund
Ziesler, OF Chicago: Irving Winslow,
OF Boston; Herbert S. Bigelow, Of