The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1900-08-05
THEIR REASONS GIVEN
Disregard Of the Administration For
Its Pledges.
AND THE WEAKNESS OF THE PRESIDENT
They Declare That the Philadelphia Convention
Nominated Civil Fraud For the Head
Of the Ticket and Military
T.auL e. IL I'll
Fraud for its Tail,
New York Journal.)

Proof from their own lips that men
who in the past have been loyal Re-
publicans and in many instances par
tisans of Mckinley, are now out, firm
and fiat-footed, for William j. Bryan
and the Democratic platform, is fur
nished in the columns below.
Washington, August 1.-Chairman
Jones, of the. Democratic National
Committee, arrived here from New
York this morning and was in con-
ference this afternoon with Secretary
Kerr, after which the latter gave out
the following rames of men whom he
knows have turned from Mckinley to
Bryan:
LIFE LONG REPUBLICANS.
JUDGE C. l.. HOLTZ, one of the
leaders of the Recommendations of
Cleveland. He has been life long
Republican and a power in the party.
He will take the stump in his state for
bryan this Fall.
CHARLES M. STAFFORD, a New
York lawyer and United States mar
shall under Cleveland, stayed away
he distrusted Bryan. He is out with
an announcement that he considers
Bryan the greatest man America has
produced since Lincoln, and he will
take the stump in Bryan's behalf.
CHARLES f. BACON, former law
partner of Senator David b. Hill, who
voted for Mckinley in 1896. He will
support Bryan this year because of
his anti-imperial utterances and be-
cause he believes the Kansas City
platform represents true American
ism.
Z. L. GODKIN, the editor of the
New York Evening Post, who was We
hement in denunciation of Bryan in
1896, is now out with an open letter
in which he says: my opinion of
William Mckinley and the men who
surround him and act with him is
that they are the most dangerous set
of scoundrels by which any civilized
country was ever beset."
EDWIN f. WALKER, secretary of
the Young Mems Republican Club, of
Evanston, ILL.,, says: ''As President
Mckinley has shown that he cannot
be trusted to do his plain duty l hope
and believe he will not be reelected
to a position where he can continue
to substitute dishonorable imperial
ism for what might be an honorable
expansion"
WEBSTER DAVIS gave up his place
under the Administration and an
nounces that he will support Bryan
because of the corruption of the Re-
publican party and its imperialistic
policy.
JUDGE p. A. LOUBLE, president of
the Ohio State Bar Association, an
ardent and life long Republican, who
was at one time candidate for Con-
gress in McKinley's district, in his
annual address to the association re-
Gently, said: 1.-THE Republican Admin
istration and leaders have utterly dis
regarded the Constitution and the
principles upon which our Govern
ment rests, because they were sup
posed to stand in the way of mere
partisan advantage and because they
interfered with the new Republican
doctrine that trade and not liberty
or the Constitution follows the flag
Such a doctrine must be exposed and
it's adherents swept out of power"
WAY TO REBUKE MCKINLEY.
SECRETARY E. NJ. ORDWAY, of
said: ''Whatever the Anti-Imperial-
list Convention may do, shall GER
tainly support the Kansas City ticket
and platform. The most effective way
to rebuke the Mckinley Administra-
TONS attempt to transform this Re-
public into an empire is to vote the
straight Decorate Presidential tick
et.''
JOSEPH BREITINGER, chairman
of the Gold Democratic organization,
of Cleveland, declares: "There is a
regular stampede to Bryan among
the Gold Democrats of Ohio
j. HASKINS HOBSON. State chair
man OF the Populist party of Virginia,
has announced his intention to sup
port Bryan, and will use his utmost
endeavors to prevent the putting of
another ticket in nomination in his
State.
GEORGE NJ. HILLMAN, a promi-
nent leader of Mount Holly, N. j.,
voted for Palmer and Buckner four
years ago, but announces his inten-
ton to vote for Bryan this year. I'm
perialism and trusts are the para
mount questions, he says.
JUDGE THOMAS M. MORGAN, of
Chicago, who supported Palmer and
Buckner in 1896, is now out for Bryan
and Stevenson, and says the Gold
Democrats generally will support Bry-
an this year.
SUIGMUND ZEISLER, a distin-
guished lawyer of Chicago, who STUN
ped for Mckinley four years ago, is
out for Bryan this year, and will take
the platform for him little later.
JOHN p. HOPKINS, former Mayor
and Gold Democrat of Chicago, an
nounces that he is in line with Bryan
Democracy this year.
REV. DIR. SILAS C. SWALLOW. cam
didate for President of the United
Christian party, says: IF we must