The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1900-11-02
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HE FINAL ROUNDUP.
LAST WORDS TO VOTERS.
The Campaign Practically Closed and
Nothing Left But to Register the win
of the People at the Polls.

Des Moines, Oct 29.-The campaign
Of 1900 has practically reached it's
close. But little is now left except
the expression of the will of the people
at the ballot box. A campaign of edu-
cation has been conducted during the
past few months and the people have,
by this time, determined for which
candidate they will cast their votes.
The Republican state central COM
mittee is satisfied that the people of
. Iowa have determined that they do
not desire change. They credit the
people of this state with understand
ing thoroughly the existing conditions
and they feel that the people have COM
s pared the situation throughout the
country now with the days of depres-
sion which We're in evidence only four
short years ago. The days of 1896
are too near 1900 to permit the people
4 to forget their situation at that time
and when the American people con-
slider carefully the things which so di-
rectly pertain to their welfare as do
the industrial and commercial condi-
lions today, they are not liable to be
disposed to change them for the worse
conditions that existed under the last
Democratic administration.
1t is true that the Democrats seek
to explain away the cause of our pres
ent prosperity. They cannot deny that
prosperity now exists, but they have
sought to show that it has come, not
on account of the Republican admin
istration, but rather in spite of it. They
have talked about the effect of wars
and pestilence and famine in other
lands and charged that we were the
benefciaries of misfortune rather than
of good governmental management.
The people, however, are able to seq
through the devious meshes of this
sort of argument. They realize how
small figure the misfortune of for
eign nations cut in the matter of our
prosperous conditions today. They re-
alize that we have had to fight an eX.
pensive war, calling for the outlay of
millions of money, and yet this has
scarcely been a pebble in the way ofthe
wheels of prosperity and has not
delayed materially the progress of
this country from the hard times of
1896 to the good times of the present
: day. The people also realize that there
is a spirit of patriotism aboard in the
land which demands that the govern
ment shall be sustained while it is
struggling tn establish the rights and
secure the advantages given to it, not
by it's own seeking primarily, but by
the arbitrament of a war entered upon
in the cause of humanity.
The American people in these past
few weeks. during which the cam
paign was at it's height, have learned
to weigh well the statements made by
the opposition and to detect the falla
cies of their position The people have
heard Mr. Bryan, first in his dictation
in regard to the platform at Kansas
City. and second in his letter of ac-
ceptance in which he said whether
the senate, now hostile to bimetallisn
can be changed during this campaign
or the campaign of 1902, can only be
determined after the votes are counted
but NEITHER THE PRESENT NOR
THE FUTURE POLITICAL COM
PLEXION OF CONGRESS HAS PRE-
VENTED OR SHOULD PREVENT
AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE
PARTY'S POSITION UPON THIS
SUBJECT IN UNEQUIVOCAI
TERMS"
The people thoroughly understand
that this declaration of Mr.. Bryan il
his letter of acceptance means that he
and his party are pledged both by
their platform and the official state
ment of their candidate, to free silver
The people further realize that all thu
buster about opposition to trusts is
mere bluff, for when the representa-
tiyes of the Bryanites had an oppor
tunity to deal the trusts a crushin:
blow in congress by assisting the pas
sage of resolution for constitu
tional amendment, they voted practi
cally solid against it and thereby de
feated exactly the sort of Legislation
which alone can control the trusts
The people also know, by the actor
Of the Democratic party in North Car
DINA and other southern states wher
they have disfranchised the colore'
VOtGrS, IldL luelI JlClSASS VI 5AStee ~
litical morality in regard to the "con
sent of the governed has no founda
ton and is simply an attempt to cate
votes.
The people know these things an
have had their memories wonderfully
refreshed as to the purposes and aim
az the Bryanites during the past fey
weeks. They realize that it is, afte
all, the same old contest Of 1896. Tn
supremacy of Mr.. Bryan means tn
supremacy of free silver, nothing less
The people of Iowa have taken fri
position in favor of honest money an
In favor Of good times and they hav
simply to reassert their position Q
Nov. 6. That they will do this Their
can be no question and the size 9
the majority they will give Presider
Mckinley depends solely upon the e.
fort made to get out the vote