Smyrna times., 1900-08-29

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confidently claiming Washington. Here
is what Mr.. Wilson Alperson of Spo-
kane, Wash, one of the best known
mining men i'll the far west, said |
Wednesday:
Il am now in the silver mining bus-
ness. have been i'll for years. am con-
vinced that silver will take care of it.
self if demagogues will quit talking
about it. The free silver sentiment |
has been on deathbed in Washing |
ton for four years. On the other hand !
we are prosperous as we never were
before. Some of the biggest flour mills
of the world have been built in Wash
ington and are daily grinding for ex-
port to Asia. Everybody out our way
is an eXpansionist. The opening up of
the orient is going to furnish us with
new life. The open door in China
policy is sneered at by some Demo-
Gratis in the east. but we know what it
means to the Pacific coast, and we are
for it. We have a big town out our
way called Seattle. You'll hear more
of it when the thousands of American
ships are going to the orient loaded
with export. If the business men of
the east do their duty Mckinley will
be elected by an overwhelming major
ity."
why should We Changer
! Mr.. G. ]. Norris of Galesburg, Ills, is
a prominent business man of western
Illinois, engaged in the department
store line. He said:
Il am sure the election of Bryan
would prove disastrous to our business,
but like most business men of Illinois,
1 have little fear of a Democratic vic
tory if the business men of New York.
West Virginia, Indiana and other so
called doubtful states do their duty. 1t
seems to me that the business men all
over the country are waking up: have
noticed this especially within the past
week. They are saying: Why should
we change? Times are good and u
change from good times will in all
probability result in Dad times We
are going along all right and let us
keep in the middle of the prosperity
road That is what 1 hear every day"
Fostering Race Antipathy.
John Mckinley of Duluth, Mimi.
president of the Great Lakes Copper
company, is one of the best known bust
ness men in all the great lake states
and among the men of the east engag-
ed in copper and iron Industries. He
said Tuesday:
''It is pretty we'll understood by the
population of our state that the cleo
tion of Mr. Bryan would be n calamity
The copper business is of great i'm
, pOrtance to the upper lake states. II
, will be badly crippled if Bryan is
elected. more so than when Cleveland
was elected. Most consumers of cop
, per do business on borrowed money
: If capitalists lose confidence and dc
t not advance money, our business is
ruined. 1t is nearly the same in nj
lines. especially in the iron industry
! The Democrats in Minnesota are still
I talking 4 good deal about silver, flank
\ ed by arguments against imperialism
and an alliance with England. They
f have always, to some extent, tried t
, fOment race hatred. They are now ap
> pealing to the Scandinavians as enc
n mics of England and appealing to Ger
= mans because Kaiser Wilhelm is al
. enemy of England. 1t is dangerous t.
4 our country when a great politica
:. party appeals to foreign citizens a
v foreigners and not as Americans. Blu
n the Scandinavians, who constitute tn
= bulk of MinnesOta'S population, are
+ strong conservative people and are or
4 posed to free silver. Minnesota is a
4 right, but apathy in other states ma
/. endanger Republican success"
). II. Il. Wade of Toledo, o., promote
of mechanical and electrical inveI
# tions, who has travelled recently frOI
,r California to New England, was ais
70 heard from Tuesday. ,He said:
% Il don't belong to- any party. I'll
n times are certainly good-better tha
,r we have ever seen before. l shall vol
10 for Mckinley. | want none of Brya
& and his prophylactic free silver al
G surdity. On my way from CalifOrn
10 to New York l heard business men as
10 this self answering question: WI
a" should we change the administratiC
y and our own condition? l hear tho'
lv who were the most raDld or brya
no men four years ago just as earnest
H. shouting for Mckinley now. Coo
ut times is the simplest as well as Il
no best argument for wOrkingmen.
re hear ten times as much Mckinley ia
in these days as l heard in 1896"
Illinois Men Not to BE Fooled.
c. NJ. Swank of ToulOn Ills. in Ne
m York for the Swank & Walker D
.ss Goods Co, lives in central IllinC
n about 60 miles from El Paso RegaI
in Ing the attitude of the Gold Dem
di- Tats in his section, he says:
''The Gold Democrats who voted
m Palmer and Buckner in our state 70
IRE years ago are unanimous for McKi
as ley. They talk to us great deal abO
he Imperialism, secret alliance with En-
Is land, etc, but we are not fooled. L