Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1900-06-20
A WESTERN EDITOR.
GIVES REASONS M'KINLEY WILL.
BE REELECTED.
People Want No Cessation in Their
Daily Labor-PresentA Administration
Through War and Trouble Has Been
Massesw Want Money to Spend.

Sincere--Masses Want Money to Spend.
| The reelection of President Mckinley
means that there win be no cessation to
the daily labor of the toiling masses.
1t means that there Will be good cheer
for the little ones in the humble homes
OF the laborer and comforts for the fam
lily of the artisan. IT means that the
steady tramp of the great and universal
dinner-pail brigade will hot be stilled.
nor the marcheI be commanded % malt
while a new experiment in finance or
| other legislation Is being tested.
1t is true that the denomination Of
William J. Bryan is being sought, and
will doubtless be brought about by the
class of Democrats who care more for
/ present notoriety than they do for the
ultimate success of their party MIR.
Bryan is the recognized leader of that
sentiment that felt itself submerged
four years ago, and which at the pres
| emit time is by no means united in his
favor. However there are so many
| differences in the party of woe this year
! that Democracy win lose nothing by
retaining the same leader. It has moth
| ing to gain in any event. No man can
lead it to victory, and no issues that
could be compiled could help it in this
extremity.
| There is no excuse for change in the
administration of the government of
| the United States at this time. We have
| been permitted TO see for ourselves the
| workings of the Republican administra-
tioI., and a million busy workshops tes-
| tify to its fruitfulness. There is no rea-
son why this state of affairs should not
continue as long as the people of the
country wish it, and there is every rea-
son to believe that the people-the peo-
| pie who are the heart of the machine
desire to return to the disturbances and
poverty that marked recent Democratic
administrations of national affairs.
The demand for financial legislation
was great. That the Republican party
| faithfully kept its promises in this re-
! spect has bound TO it, with ties of per-
| feet harmony and accord, the business
men who had experienced one panic,
because of the prospects of an unstable
| currency The blessed workings of the
protective tariff have given its reward
| to the toilir1g masses, who earn their
| bread by the sweat of their brow. They
are too well pleased to return any more
| tn a nervous dread of starvation that
/ the once knew. BY this same tariff
/ the manufacturer has been protected in
| his investments, and has been permit
! led to provide work for willing labor.
1t has been a law that worked for all
classes equally well.
The wise administration of President
| Mckinley in the troub!ous days through
which the nation passed while Europ-
can country learned our strength and
sincerity has not been lost upon the
people. They may claim adherence to
| the Democratic party, but thousands
and tens of thousands of them rejoice
at the backbone of this Republican ad-
ministration in its grasp of the unfor-
seen issues growing out of the Spanish
war. They admire the manner in which
we have dealt with the Philippines,
with Cuba and with Porto Rico. The
| islands in the Orient, it is admitted by
| all the thoughtful, have been the means
of opening to us the great markets Of
the East. The South, especially, is sem
sible of this, for her exports will go
| there more largely than to any other
! point on the globe. Our dealing with
| the island of Cuba has won the praise
of the entire world, while little Porto
Rico is blooming like tropical rose,
| it is under this administration, and its
dense population will soon be beyond
want and care.
With the history of four years to turn
to, the expectant and approving gaze
of the voters of the country, what shall
we say of Mr.. Mckinley? Is there any
doubt that he will be returned to the
Office of chiel executive of the nation?
He stand upon a platform of fulfilled
promise of promises faithfully kept
and Of W. ich the people of the country
have been the direct beneficiaries.
| There is no longer a cry of hard times.
On the contrary, the masses have spent
more money in the last year in their
amusements than in any preceding year
of our history. And they are still spend
ing it. and they have it to spend. THAT
Is a criterion-the money that goes for
pleasure and the money that goes into
the savings banks Ask about these ac
| counts of the working people and listen
to the charming story that comes from
the bankers lips.
Arrayed against existing conditions
against prosperity, visible and undo
niable-stands the Democratic party.
! / Ike Poes raven. it looks gIoomily on
the scene. hopeless of any good--a mere
omen Of morbid melancholy. Democ-
raey merely says loudly, We protest"
The only policy of the Democratic party
is to deny that the people are happy,
to deny that they are well fed, to deny
that we are contented, to deny that it
is right to be prosperous. If they sue,
ceel In making a ease on these issues.
BRYAN will 90 into the office of Presi-
dent with a whoop. and ranting reek-
lessness shall lave taken prudence by
the head and strangIed it,
ont here in the West-the West that
once was silver. but now repudiates a
doctrine that it knows means retrogres-
sion. loss and poyerty-the soft summer
winds are again sweeping over a grow
ing harvest in its rich promise of album
dance. The sun rises at morn and
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