Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-10-31
Ex-senator Says Kansas Will Go
Strong for Mckinley.
MILITARY SENTIMENT IN STATE
National Committeeman Schneider
Says Nebraska is for Mckinley.
BRYAN'S CHANCES ARE SLIM
Special From a Staff Correspondent.


CHICAGO, ILL.,, October 31.-Ex-Senator
PETER, who is now stamping the middle
western states for President Mckinley, was
in town today and stated that there is no
doubt that Kansas will give from 10000 to
10000 majority for Mckinley. 1.-The state,
said he, '.is in better condition than it ever
was before. The people have more money
and there is not an idle person in the state
who cannot find work if he chooses All
predictions made by our people in 1896 have
failed. curious circumstance Is that
many state banks are going out of business
because rates of money have so cheapsned
and competition with farmers themselves
has become so intense that there is no
longer a profit in the banking business.
"Our state is a soldier state. There were
more men who volunteered for the late war
with Spain than there were voters. There
is not a particle of anti-expansion senti-
ment in the state. All of soldier re-
unions are in the nature of republican rail-
lies
Asked why he had changed from the pop
ulists to the republican party, he said
1.-The populists, by al1ying themselves with
the democratic party and agreeing too
much in advance to advocate whatever pol
icy the democrats should put forward in
the platform as leading issues, have aban-
doned the original idea of Independent po-
Gtical organization and have relieved all
anti-fusionists of every obligation. When
l saw that the democratic national conven-
ton put all other issues in the background
and placed in front the sham of imperial
ism and charged the President of the
United States with being in a conspiracy
to change our form of government from re-
puuiic to empire l felt it to be my duty to
enter the lists of President Mckinley's
friends for the purpose of defending him
against scurrilouS attacks. l was a soldier
in the Union army and 1 am not willing to
in1ipnitieG he prac ont
of the United States without opposing my
earnest objections.
Accusations Are GroundIess
'These accusations are so utterly ground
less that 1t seems incredible that any Amer
lean could urge them. Our Indian policy,
begun under President Washington and
continued until the present time, has been
vastly more harsh and oppressive than the
course of President Mckinley toward the
F1llpinos. If We except our war with Great
Britain in 1912. the Mexican war and the
war of the rebellion, above 10 per cent of
the cost of our War Department has been
chargeable to the Indian service. Wash
1rgton with the American army five
years in Subduing the Indians northwest
OF the Ohio The Seminole war, begun
during Jackson's administration, in 1888,
lasted for seven years ana cost more lives
than have already been lost in the Philip
pine instruction. The Presidents policy
from the beginning of the Spanish war to
the present time has been in perfect oc-
cord with all of the precedenls from Wash
ington to Lincoln, and with international
law and usages OF war. The people ought
to stand by him. And more Mr.. Bryan is
not only without experience in public af-
fairs, but is visionary, vacilating and
threatening. Mckinley, on the other hand,
has had upward of twenty years close
connection with the administration of pub
lie affairs, and throughout all of this time
he has acquitted himself Creditably ably
and honorably."
Nebraska for Mckinley.
National Committeeman Schneider of Ne
hraska was in conference for several hours
today with Chairman Hanna and Vice
Chairman Payne at republican national
headquarters. Mr.. Schneider leaves for
home this evening to remain during the
campaign. He said:
1.-The chairman of the republican state
central committee claims Nebraska by
from 5000 to 1000 majority. This 1 believe
is a conservative estimate. The chances
for republican success in our state is most
promising, and | firmly believe that when
the votes are counted Mr.. Bryan will find
himself showed under by several thousand
republican votes. We daily making
gains, and have been ever since the cam
paign opened. Under such conditions, l
do not see how We can fail to win Pres
tdent Mckinley is stronger in Nebraska to-
Cdy lildl MI bryan. anu lHe democrats
know it. l have it from inside information,
told me by prominent democrat, that the
democrats have no hopes of eecting Bryan
President, that Nebraska was lost to Bry-
an and they were centering their fight on
the legisla ture; that If victorious they
might send him to the Senate. And that
is about the situation. From the very best
information obtainable by a complete and
careful poll of the state and from other
sources absolutely reliable, | do not hest
tate to say that Mckinley will receive the
electoral vote of Nebraska on the 9th day
of November"