Evening star., 1900-09-25
Representative Weeks Says State is
Safe fer Mckinley.
SOUND MONEY AND PROSPERITY
Senator reHegt0n's Advent Has
Merely Aroused Curiosity.
HE CAN CHANGE NO VOTES
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star

1 Special Correspondence of The Evening Star
MT. CLEMENS, Mich, September "a, 1900.
Senator Wellington's advent In Michigan
has not turned the state upside down as
the democratic managers expected upon
producing Maryand's democratic senator
| before the astcnished gaze of the peace
full. prosperous wolverines.
| Senator Wellington's presence. In my
| opinion, did not cause the loss of a single
| republican vote@in Michigan, said Repre-
sentative Edgar Weeks Of the seventh con-
gressional district. The people who saw
and heard him viewed him with mild Curl
osity as the gentleman who, having re-
ceived one of the highest offices in his
state at the hands Of the republican party.
saw fit to desert to the enemy on the eve
| of presidential election"
| Mr.. Weeks, who is making an active cam
paign, has a good war record. having been
| mustered out of the army captain is past
| commander of the Grand Army OF the Re-
public. has been probate judge and was
elected tc the present Congress by $3.50
majority. r.
1.-THE dominant issues of the campaign to
my mind" continued Mr.. Weeks to a cor
! respondent of The Star, ARE sound money
ard prosperity, the direct and logical result
OF republican rule. The people of my state
want the best dollar they can receive for
their products. Michigan people sell things.
| We are a great producing state. and our
| products especially furniture, go all over
the Union and the world. We want our re-
turns in coin worth 100 cents Of the best
money on earth.
| II represent thriving community. times
are good. mortgages have been paid on
| and there is a general feeling of security
| and confidence which is in marked and
striking contrast to the shaky. panicky con-
| dition existing not only here, but all over
| the country, four years ago.
| believe reelection r..
| Mckinley the people will deal free silver
| death blow, but until then 1T is an issue
| very much alive in the sense that were Mr.
| Bryan elected he would seek to place the
| country on a silver basis That's where
| the danger comes in, and 1T is significant
| fact that while the Kansas City platform
| 'reaffrms' the Chicago platform. thus re-
v.ving the issue politically, Bryan and mis-
| spell-binders eschew it in their talks and
shake the baseless issue OF alleged Imperial
| ism and militarism in the faces of their
| hearers.
Bryan's Men Of Straw.
Consider the magnifcently patriotic and
j supeIbly diriomatic manner in which the
administrator has handled the Chinese
/ question and ddemolished into chaff Bryan s
| newest maR of straw-he Is an adept at
these creations. He taunted the republi-
! cans from tie stump about the hosting of
| the flag pm the walls of Pekin, xand ats
| tempted to draw weak comparison be-
| TWEEN the SITUATION IN emma ana the 1Hlilp-
pines, to the dscredit OF the nation he see ks
| to rule as President and the party he hopes
| to overthrow. The army of the United
| States, having accomplished It's humane
purpose will leave Pekin at the proper
time and the honored flag goes with 1t,
J but 1t fl.es in the Philippines. our own ter
| tory. and under our own sovereignty, and
It Will ccntinueto-way in the trade winds
Of the tropics. an emblem of peace, free
dom indi. tdual rights and strength to those
who resp ct IL and who are under its pro-
lection. -, 2t
The west should r:s> UP en- masse against
Bryan ard his heresies, because 1t Is here
that their falsity may be seen and Is felt
the E-ost keeniy. 1t should crush him and
his glib, spec'6us, sophistries once and for
all forever and for all time out OF politi-
cal existence E--; s.-l
HE said to us in the west. rThe mort
cages on your homes will be foreclosed.'
In Michigan there never was a time in its
history when Or people have paid off
greater aegIegate of mortgage Indebted
ness, and it is 50 elsewhere. In Kansas and
Nebraska particularly. He said, We will
export no goods, and shops and factories
Will close TIE exports run into the hun-
dreds Of millions a year more than al any
time since the nations birth, and locally
there Eever was time when our factories
in Detroit Grand Rapids, Port Huron
Kalamazoo and other manufacturing cities
were run on fui.er time turned out more
goods. He said the price of wheat would
go down. 1t went up. He said the price of
gold would go up. The exchange on a
pound sterling rs today as it was then
A.S7.
Some More False Prophecies.
"He said wages would be decreased
The workfngmen Of Detroit, Grand Rapids
Owosso, Port Huron and other cities are
buying and owning their own homes and
the distressing conditions which confronted
them four years ago by reason of Bryan's
wild talk and dangerous demagogy are but
bitter memories The wages in my state
have been increased He said hard times
will come upon U.S.. Have they? Every
body Is at work who wants work and at
good wages. Witness monumental vol
ume of exports, our tremendous interstate
trade and commerce, the lowest percentage
and New York the money market of the
world. Western people should not lose
sight of the fact that large portion of this
money is from western banks and is west
ern wealth there on deposit
Let me tell you how our state will repu-
date democratic predictions of gloom. ca
lamity. scuttling. flag furl.ng, retreat and
doctrines of financial dishonor 1t will give
5000 majority for Mckinney I. will re-
turn full delegation Of twelve members to
Congress- elect a republican ma aioritv IN
JOINT ballot in the state legislature insur
ing Senator McMillan's reelection and viii
elect entire republican state ticket
1T will affirm by this great majority its
approval of the course of the administra-
tion in the Philippines. for l believe that
a very large portion of our people. ire
apective of party. favor expansion I favor
II and western people generally are for 1t.
II it were proposed to pull out of the Phil
ippines. n tempest OF protest would go up
from the broad west. which would shake
The republic. The south ought to be solid
for expansion, for in the orient is the great
market for their great staple-cotton-bu
unfortunately they have not shaken off the
shackles of retrogressive democracy down
there sufficiently to see where their own in
terests lie. IL
No Impcrialism In Michigan.
"In what spirit do our people receive the
issue of imperialism? Well, sensible men
seoff at it because they know that there is
no more danger in this country than there
Is of the waters of Lake Michigan flooding
the state. Tits class of our voters do not
| take democratic talk about Imperialism and
n.ilitarism serieuslyai This Is a fact The
constitutional, limit on the army. and the
| fact that our, Congress may be renewed i'm
| toto every two years IL the people so will
1t. disposes effectually, TO my mind, of these
| questions. These arguments of Bryan win
| fail to arouse interest or enthusiasm here
'"rhe Presidents course appeals to every
\ American who loves his scounfrv and NH q.