The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-10-11

w. W. Bryan, Populist and farmer,
Waco, Mo-, a distant relative Of Will
liam Jennings Bryan. Prosperity.
John Barkley, Populist, Smlth1ield,
Mo. Expansion.
w. w. Mcdowell, Populist, Smith
field, Mo. Expansion.
John Lochin, road commissioner,
Carl Junction, Mo. Prosperity.
Judge ]. p. de Mattos, New What
com, Wash, formerly Mayor and mem
Der of the legislature. Expansion and
prosperity.
L.. ]. Callinan, Michigan. All of Mr..
Bryan's predictions OF 1896 were false.
He has opened a second battle on pros
perity.
Gundlach family, about 80 votes,
B~elleville, III.
Samuel Brown, farmer, Old Ripley
Township, Bond County, III. Pros
perity.
Richard A. Montgomery. a promi-
e attorney OF Lansing, Micn., has
come over to the Republican party
since four years ago, and was a dele
gate to the Michigan state convention.
Hon. Allen B. Morse, of Ionia, Mich,
who was a Gold-Democrat in SO, is
ansout-and-out Mckinley man now and
will make speeches for Mckinley dur
ing the campaign. Morse was formerly
Chief Justice OF the Michigan Supreme
Court, having been elected as a Dem
ocrat, and in 1892 was the Democratic
candidate for Governor.
Charles H. O'Donald, of Clare, Mich,
a prominent single manufacturer,
supported Bryan four years ago, blu:
now says that the Republicans have
demonstrated the truth of their claims
in 1896, and that he wants no change;
so will vote for Mckinley.
Captain John W. Toler, Carbonate,
ILL.,, postmaster under President Cleve-
land.
B. A. Jamison, Of Sensmount, Nd,
Democratic candidate for Congress in
the Fifth Maryland District in 1896.
"Bryan's evasion of the money ques-
ton convinces me that either he has
ceased to believe in 16 to /. or else
is afraid to preach that doctrine be-
cause of the belief that 1t would hurt
his chances of election. My confidence
in him as a leader and as a sincere
man is gone"
and old-line Democrat, Cripple Creek,
SOlOs 4ASSioCAI VASIA111Cy . SuuluSul
services as a soldier, statesman and
President of the United States COM
mend him most favorably to the people
and a change would create panic and
work disaster"
S. S. Blum, merchant. Deadwood, s:
D. Il voted for Bryan in 1896. He
made us believe this free silver remedy
was the proper thing for the bad times.
We'll WV hor,a hol cr1onltl &f-oa, .a.
Mckinley was elected, and l have
come to believe that Mr.. Bryan is an
interruptions politician, ambitious for
his personal ends and nothing else"
General w. H. Hardin, Greensboro,
Ky. Will support the Republican can
didate for Governor. Goebelism.
John A. Gillespie, farmer, Reyes
port, Ill. Prosperity.
Joseph Morwitz, president of the
German Democrat Publishing Com
pany, of Philadelphia. From the
information I have been able to OBJ
tain as to the attitude Of the German
Americans in New York, Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Louis, all cente-s
in which not only their votes, but their
influence will be very strong and pos
sibly decisive. I believe that it is
overwhelmingly against Bryan"
W. c. Stripping, a dry goods mer-
chant of Fort Worth, Tex. Bryan Is
pledged to free silver, but nobody
in our country believes he will touch
1t, and few want it."
Judge w. w. Gatewood, Carlsbad,
N. NJ. Favors expansion. Imperial
ism Is a bug-a-boo. Wants sound
money.
Colonel Gentry, member of the staff
of the Democratic Governor of Ken
lucky. McKinley's administration has
been a SUCCESS.