White Oaks eagle. (White Oaks, N.M.) 189?-190?, 1900-08-30
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|. D. MCKINLEY
FOR W. ]. BRYAN.

DR.. l.. D. Mckinley, Of Topeka,
Kan, has quit the republican
party, and deserts his distinguish
ed cousin, the champion of impcr-
ialisn, and announces that he will
vote and work for the election of
Bryan. He praises Mckinley as
a man, but says he has been an
absolute failure as president
and contends that his reelection
would be a vital blow to the re-
public. In a communication to
the Rocky Mountain News, he
says:
81 have often been asked if |
would vote for Mckinley for pres
ident. My answer is invariably
mo- Why should |? 1t is true
we are descended from the same
ancestor. We are connected with
an ancestral line which runs back
through 900 years of Scotch High
land history, a line of patriots,
whose blood has stained every
battlefield from Bannockburn to
Flodden, and from Flodden to Gull
loden, while defending their homes
against British greed.
And during the colonial days in
this country they fought for the
same cause and against the same
oppressor. When this government
was born it was christened by the
blood of our fathers and made
sacred by the tears of our mothers.
"Although our family has
given one king to Scotland and
one president to the United States
we are but plebeians; plain people
who have never asked anything
of the governments under which
we have lived, except to be pro-
tected in the enjoyment of our
natural rights to life, liberty and
the pursuit of happiness.
"For 900 years we have believ-
ed that governments derive their
just powers from the consent of
the governed. Then why should
we be asked to support one of our
family for the highest Office in gift
of the American people, who has
turned his back on all of the Sa-
cred traditions and memories and
beliefs of our fathers and has al
lowed himself to be made the
mouthpiece and catspaw of that
greedy horde of shylocks that
have crushed liberty and oppress-
ed labor through the control of
governments in adj the ages past
and whose presence is now felt in
every home III this country.
There are four great names
in history that in my judgement
stand out in line far in advance
of all other illuStrious names:
Christ, Wallace, Jefferson and
Lincoln. Christ stood upon the
shores of Galilee and preached
the brotherhood of man to the
toiler as he cast his nets into the
sea. 1t was to him glad tidingS.
1t was the message that the toll
ers all along the ages had been
listening for. Wallace, the un.
purchasable patriot, fought the
hordes of greed and oppression
in the glens and highlands OF
Scotland and reserved to the
people the enjoyment of thcil
homes and iiresides and the natu
raj freedom of their simple live,
for which he was offered by then
and refused the crown of a king
Jefferson clothed liberty will
the Declaration of independence
and the Constitution and gave t
our colonial fathers and their de
Scendauts for 100 years the bes
government ever given to man.
Lincoln, the plebeian, tn,
friend Of the toilcr and the op
pressed.
These are my ideals Of great
ness and true goodness and pa
triotism, and with these four
, when his life work is done ant
its history is written, believ