The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1900-09-22
A RINGING NOTE FOR BRYAN.
Prominent Dover Pastor to Cast His
First Democratic Vote

Prominent Dover Pastor to Cast His
First Democratic Vote.
Rev. Joseph Brown Turner, pastor of the
Dover (Delaware) Presbyterian Church. who
has announced his intention to forsake The
Republican party and support the Democratic
ticket. said in an interview:
Il shall vote for Mr.. Bryan in November,
| though | have never before voted Demo
cratic ticket While | am somewhat reluctant
to talk about my political relations, | see no
reason why / should not candidly state some
of the reasons for my personal convictions and
my change of political alignment at this time
Concerning the ordinary issues upon which
1.-THE American people agree to differ it is wise
| for the clergy to keep silence, especially IN
| the pulpitS.-> Matters of taxation, finance aud
ordinary administration should be left to those
whose business it is to understand them aud
discuss them. But we are clear outside OF
ordinary lines in this campaign. The issues
now pending are vital, and no political contest
since 1860 has been so charged with veal or
woe TO the government under which we live.
s'The ak is laid at the root OF the tree under
whose shadow we have sat with delight. 1t
is time for every man who loves free insti-
| tutious and true democratic principles 10 speak
and keep on speaking. No more precious
| legacy ever came to any people than that be-
queathed by our ioreiathers TO all succeeding
generations of Americans. This generation is
| in danger OF helittling that legacy and of cast
| ing it wholly aside.
We have outgrown the principles of our
fathers, We are told, and we may safely dis
card them We cannot keep to the old lines
aud continue to expand. We cannot keep
| inside of constitutional limitations and be u
world power Then we had better not be a
world power.
u am a consiitutionalist. Until We change
our Constitution in the orderly way provided
| in the Constitution itself | can see nothing but
! overwhelming disaster in refusal OF neglect
| to abide by its guarantees and restrictions.
| We have gone outside OF those restrictions
| and guarantees under the leadership of the
present Administration. and what the end may
! be under such leadership it is not difficult 90
| foresee.
dangerous hereSies, theoretical and prae-
ticaI-those have always been among Us.
| Professionalism in politics, the lowering OF
moral standards ia public life, the peryersi"n
OF parties, the corruption OF the ballot, bribery
| and ofhcial venality-theSe We have grown
| familiar with, and menacing they are indeed,
But with these we can cope. An aroused
I IL
country could aud would sweep them away
like the chat off the summer threshHg floor
Grayer far than these evils, more purteuiuu>
than an, or all of them, Is the tact that tree
America Is forgetting lis mission, turning away
from its glorious precedeuts, losing sight 81 ll>
ancient landmarks and giving the he 10 all
that our fathers believed 10 be politically and
eternally Irue We are learning 10 depend
upon force rather than on justice; We are put
ting might before right. Rock bottom rriH
ciples-truth. justice, liberty and hie--are at
stake in the present contention, for these have
AL been assalled.
Under the impulse OF neS aud foreign
conceptions OF duty we have transformed IS
righteous war for liberation IN the yes' INTO
an uuholy strife for conquest IN the East A
war tor humanity in one fair island OF The sen
has been changed to a war OF inhnmanliy 90
another. Soldiers recruited 10 hight tor liberty
in Caba are fighting against liberty "a l.uzon.
A weak sud practically helpless people ASKED
from Us the right io govern Themselves lhrs
and no more-and We have preferred tn
slaughter their best and most intelligent cias>r>
bv thousands rather than grant iheIr request
They rallied la behalf of pugClpics NO
other than those for which the enhait.et
farmers Of New England died Al Lexington
and Bunker Hill, aud We pursue th"m ~lih
fire and sword. They have bravery dared 10
assert their iaalienable right to hir. liberty
and the pursuit of happiness, and NJ. Me
Kinley presents 10 them the alternatives 81
submission or anuihilaiiot. We arr retaining
under his faiuous policy, OF hack 81 policy. "a
territory 10 which before God ~ have %"
shadow Of right and which We promised -'''
EMMY not to retain.
I'VE iniraded upon that territory even i,s-
= slsr.4a a i 10
dent refused to give the people OF shat tern
tory "A hearing in their own behalf. aHi ibru
made the plea that he had no means 1T knn"
ing their desires. 1t has been shameful
record from is beginning. Our dnmtu~cring,
cur in6delity To tacii pledges, provoked re-
sentiment followed by resistance. Oi-ou tnr,
resistance the Administration declared falsely
that th, ueople were rebels--IhIs VA spite ut
its assurance that the United States had 500
intention ut asserting permanent sovereignty
over theu.
Then "a greater force was sent Ia stamp
gui the so-cAlleu rebellion. Aud nuw, hastifs
broken the arm &C the existing government
aud spread hloudshed. confusion aud ANARCHY
far and wide, Mr.. Mckinley declares, Nth
hands upiifled to Heaven, that moral Trias'iis
force AS 10 stay, for It sc were {" ~llhdraS
our armies the people would pot u able q
govern themselves. These arr the vicious
stages hv which We have been led by an auI-
bilious leadership LISTING FOR power and bid.
ing its purposes behind a wordy fog OF pi"us
and patriotic cant.
This i ,shy | am willing 10 speak Thu,
Is why | shall east my ballot for William J.
BRYAN rs against William Mckinley.
They say that Mr.. BRYAN j. got q safe Fis'u.
Possibly he Is not. But when end one alau
engaged in breaking up the furniture Of my
house, while another Is setting hre Ia the hun>,
itself will attend 10 the iircbug first. d.
not b ,heve, though. that Mr. Bryan i, aH Az.
safe man. His uueRnccs dur'ug tue whole
81 this campaign have been siaiesmaniSe, aud
every word has ruug true lis indianapolis
speech Is the nobest utteranee this naIiou has
heard since Lincoln spoke 81 Gettysburg. II
be is elected We will be spared the repetition
% the shameful spectacle OF an administration
endeavoriug in an official capacity Ia perpet-
uate itself He says he will not Accept a
second nomination. aud believe ham. lie
speaks like an honest, straightforward, God.
fearing man.
sixteen to one, il Is true. may be more
than an administration bugaboo, and his iua,l-
eial theories may be- what his enemies say they
are. | have my own opinion Us 10 that, Though
| am not a iinancier. But this | d. know
IL Republican Congress elected tn safeguard
the financial interests OF the country according
to Republican theories could not Ur would NOT
pass an impeecable law during the four year,
Of It's coniroi-and Mr.. Gage tell, they
have not done so--then there i no glnr,Htrs
that they would do Ia 40 YEAR, and hy that
time W. might have no country lett.
America and English Prices.
If there are any people who DO not think
they are being squeezed by the tariff trust.
let them study the following prices IN ghi-