Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-10-18
Bryan a Sure Winner.

it appear that Mr.. Bryan will be-
the choice of the great majority Of
American voters. Everywhere it is
to be observed that men by the
score, who have heretofore been
identified with the Republican party
have become convinced that the
policies of that party are not in the
interests of the masses, but only in
the interest of favored few, and
that few are the men who compose
and control the great corporations
and trusts of the nation. These
changes from the Republican party
to the Democratic party, among the
common people throughout the en-
tire country, is not an illusion, but
a reality, evident to every careful
observer of the thoughts and senti-
ments of men. And the change is
not like that of the rainbow, exist
ing just beyond where one is located.
They are Disguised at the false
claims of prosperity made by the
Republican party. while the people
at large are in no better condition
than they were four years ago
They are told of the hundred mil
lions Of wealth the people of the
United States have been blessed
with during the last four years, and
when they examine their own
pockets they begin to wonder where
all this increased wealth is to be
found. They begin to ask them
selves why the wages of labor have
not been increased to some extent
during this period of unexampled
prosperity, and when they have
thought over the matter in every
way consistent with reason and
common sense, they come to the
conclusion that a party which in
terprets the prosperity of Mark
Hanna, Carnegie, Rockefeller and
few gigantic. corporations, manufac-
tories, embalmed beef trusts and
other combines as general" pros
perity is not worthy of public con-
fidence and support.
There are many people who look
with fear and trembling at the
strides our country is taking toward
militarism under Republican rule.
There are people in this country
who have very distinct recollec-
ton of the use our army and navy
was put to in some of the southern
states during the so-called recon-
struction times. when the party in
power wanted an excuse to over
awe the people and overturn civil
institutions for the advancement Of
party schemes. They do not over.
look the fact that the military
power of the country is frequently
called into action to crush the
workingmen who attempt to organ
ize to protect themselves and their
families against the cutting of
wages below living standard.
There are thousands OF foreign born
citizens who came to this country
to escape the curse of militarism in
their native lands. They see in this
land to. day tendency toward mil
itarism in the fact that in the Phil.
ippine Islands our army and navy
are being used to enforce upon
those people a government not of
their choice. People who abhor
military Proclamation over civil
government will not blindlv sup
port the Republican nominees this
fall. The men who have to pro-
dnce the money with which taxes
are raised to pay the expenses of
government, do not like the idea of
paying 200,0o0,00o for our army
and navy in time of peace. They
are beginning to ask for whose ben
eft are we attempting to gather in
all the islands of the Pacific. Will
these islands and costly acquire
ments benefit the great army of the
wage earners and small business
men of the country? Will the class
of citizens we gain by these aoqni-
sitions tend to elevate and enhance
the wages of labor, or are they
class who will reduce labor to the
standard of Chinese cooleism? Re-
volve the issues of this campaign
whichever way we may, and take
the record of the Republican party
relating to them, and it can not be
wondered at that the middle classes
and the wage.e arners of the country
are hocking to the Democratic
standard to degree never before
witnessed during any campaign of
former times.
We say that Mr.. BRYAN will be
elected President on the 9th of next
month. Never in the history of
politics has there been such turn
In the tide of popular sentiment as
there has been from Hanna and
McKinleyism to Democracy as en-
unciated by Bryan and the conven-
ton that nominated him.
Vote for principles, not men. The
issue is plain. You must vote for a