The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-09-21
DETECTION is COUNTRY.
WIDE.
From Maine to California Late
Enemies Of Bryan Now An
nounce Their Intention to
Vote For Him.

. the teStl lbllS llblh lut IcDuDll
can party by prominent men who
intend to support Bryan this
year. Some days ago a list of
number of such recruits to the
Democratic ranks was published
and since then Mr.. Richardson
has been informed Of a number
Of others with similar intentions.
He gave out the following state.
ment today:
The procession has become a
stampede. In every section of
the country leaders of thought
and action, honest thinking men
of every class. condition and
color. are Fastening to ally them
selves with Mr.. Bryan on the side
OF the republic against the en-
pire,
Rev, Wallace B. Struble.
National Secretary of the United
Christian party, vice president
of the Young Peoples Temper
auce Federation of America.
leader Of the noon day temper
auce meetings in Willard Hall,
New York, "a noted evangelist
and a fe,long Republican, has
renowned the Mckinley Hanna
party and rendered his services
to the Democratic National Com
mirtee for fhis campaign for the
purpose of assisting in the elec.
ton of Bryan and Stevenson.
LEV Wallace, Jr.. sOn of the
famous Indiana soldier, states
man and poet. announces that he
Will vote or Bryan In a nota-
bic instance says Mr.. Wallace,
mckinley has violated his oath
Of Office and no trust can be
placed in INN. On the contrary
Bryan is man true to his faith
and steadtaSt.'
"Pajrick \. Collins was a
friend and trusted adviser Of
Tilden. Cleveland and other
great leaders Of this generation,
a gold Democrat, if there is one,
and has been easily one of the
foremost men of his party in New
England for 80 years past. The
only remedy |, as a Democrat,
can see for the existing political
and industrial evils, says Mr..
Collins, is to vote the straight
Democratic ticket, The issue,
in my own Judgment, is the integ-
rity Of the republic under the
Declaration of independence and
the CONSTITUTIONS
"Bishop j. Milton Turner, Of
st. Louis, at one time United
States Minister to Liberia and a
much admired Republican orator,
is arranging to take the stump
for Bryan. Bishop Turner says
the negro soldiers who served
during the war with Spain acutely
resent Roosevelt'S declarations
that lie had to shove the niggers'
out of the way at San Juan Hill.
He will organize club of
negro Spanish War veterans to
fight Roosevelt.
A FORMER GOVERNOR OF OHIO.
"Sidney Egerton, former Gov
ernor of Ohio, and one of the
surviving "A mem berS of the his
toric convention at which the Re
publican party was founded, has
recently declared in an open letter
that he will vote for Bryan. He
states that the party of Hanna
and Mckinley is Republican only
i'll name and he can no longer af
tiliate with it.
"Hon S. g. Burdette, OF
CharleStown. West Virginia, has
just resigned the Office of AsSis-
tant United States District At
torney to which he was appoin t.
ed by this administration. He
renOunces his allegiance to the
Republican party and takes the
tump for Bryan. Mr.. Burdette
was assistant to Hon. j. IL.
Gaines, United States District
Attorney, who is also the present
Republican candidate for Con
greSs from the Third West Vir-
ginia District.
"Hon. John l.. Waller, who
was United States Consul to Mad
agascar under President Halri-
son, and later Captain in the
Twenty-third Kansas Volunteer
Infantry, which did valiant ser.
vice in the Spanish war, is one
of the leading colored men of the
country. He stumped the coun-
try eight years ago under the au-
spices Of the Republican National
Committee and is now largely in
terested in enterprises in Cuba.
Writing from Santiago, August
20, to A. E. Manning, of Indian
apoliS, Captain Waller says:
81 have just read Colonel Bry.
ans masterful effort at Indianap.
olis-his speech accepting the
Democratic nomination for Presi-
! dent of tha TTnita6 Ctoto. n: