Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-10-25
ISA GOSPEL OF HATE.
Don M. Dickinson Denounces the
Democratic Nominee.
ISSUES OPEN LETTER AGAINST BRYAN
Former Postmaster General in Presi-
dent CleveIand's Cabinet Character
ICES the rec Silver Leader as a
Class Agitator.

0Shl SiSVeldnQ SdpI1eI SndfdCIer-
ICES the rec Silver Leader as
Class Agitator.
Detroit, Mich, Oct. 24.-Don NJ.
Dickinson, postmaster general under
Grover Cleveland has given out "a
signed Interview in which he explains
why he must vote the republican tick
ct. In part he said
Since the adoption of the Kansas
City platform, and his nomination, |
have never entertained thought of
voting for Mr.. Bryan. l confess, how
ever, In common with many democrats,
hoped for time when might with
clear conscience stay away from the
polls. But Mr.. Bryan's speeches, par
ticularly his later ones have destroyed
that illusion and convinced me that l
must vote at the coming election.
Il criticise no man of different
views who can reconcile himself to the
other course, but as for me, with the
light have, | am forced to the convic-
ton that would be a recreant Amer
lean, false to my country, and false to
my party as well, if l should take to
the woods.
81 am a democrat on all the funda-
mental issues on which our party join
ed battle in the past with the republi-
cans, the wings, and the federalists,
democrat without the prefix gold"
because my party has been the party
of sound finance from Jefferson to Cley.
land. / could not be republican if
would, and | say the creed of democ-
racy with all my old-time sincerity and
faith.
But l recognize scarcely vestige
of democratic principle in either the
Chicago or Kansas City platform. The
organization is in the hands of the
populists, and by these the livery Of
true democracy has been stolen in
which to serve all the devils that make
for social disorder.
Bryan's Gospel of Hate.
"Mr. Bryan is preaching the gospel
of hate. Voicing that. he appeals to
the envious, the disconnected, the i'm
provident the incompetent and the un-
worthy.
''But worse still, he endeavors to set
friend against friend, neighbor against
neighbor, family against family, sec
ton against section, and nation
against nation. He makes the always
dangerous appeal to the evil in human
nature. His postulates are Boxer, and
his propaganda is Boxer He speaks
no encouragement to the unsuccessful
but tells him to lay the blame at the
door of his more fortunate neighbor,
and that his sole remedy is to attack
him.
Where is the intelligent citizen
who belives in his heart that his re-
publican neighbors are not as good
Americans and as good patriots as
himself? And yet in connection with
his making charge that the republi-
cans demanded a larger army, an in
crease with a minority vote of but $50
he has repeatedly said in his public
speeches, as he said at Indianapolis:
Why do they want it? So that they
can build fort near every large city
and use the army to suppress by force
the discomfort that ought to Ne cured
by remedial legislation
"This from candidate for the pres
Iidency of the United States, using all
the power of his eloquence to carry
conviction, especially to our foreign
born workingmen, whose vote he So
licits.
Will Defend the Flag.
Our policy is peace. We seek no
more wars. We want the friendship
of all nations, but now, as ever, we
stand, at peace but ready to battle
with any of them for the integrity of
our territory, the honor of our flag, and
the protection of Americans every
where.
1.-THE Philippine question is a prob
lem to be solved in congress, SO far
as the whole territory is concerned.
1t may be determined to withdraw the
flag, as in Cuba. But in no place on
earth must that flag be hauled down
under fire.
! Attitude on Silver.
| con the finance question two or
three respected friends use this logic
substantially:
| at may be admitted that the man
who proposes to have the nation make
a debt paying dollar or labor paying
dollar out of so cents of silver and so
cents of vacuum is sincere in his
views of political economy. So is
the anarchist sincere, and his physical
and moral courage, tho perverted, can
not be questioned when, taking his life
in his hands he adopts assassination
as proper political method.
| "Let no democrat be influenced by
false reports as to the attitude IN this
crisis of any man whom we have trust
ed, who, pointing to his record to
speak for him now. may deem it I'M
necessary to speak again.
1--WE should never lose faith in the
stability of the works of God, least of
all in the noblest of them, an honest
man.
81 take my place proudly by the side
of Abram S. Hewitt, under whom ]
fought in the great battle for Tilden
and democracy in 1876, waiting in
confidence the call of men like him to
gather for the reorganization of my
party. Like him, l conceive it to be
my solemn duty to vote against Bry.
anizing the democratic party, and to
rid the party and country of Bryan
ism. And so, like him, in the ranks of
the true democracy, | shall go to the
no11s and ract NV hal1of for pracidapt