Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1900-09-20
TAXES in THE WHOLE COUNTRY

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TAKES IN THE WHOLE COUNTRY
Many of the Names Arc Those OF
Men Once High in the Coun.
ellis q! the Republican
Party.
Chicago, Sept. TO- While the re-
publican national committee MAS COM
piling AN alleged list of silver repub-
licans and populists In the mining
states who voted for Bryan i'm 1896
and would vote for Mckinley in 1900,
the democratic national committee
was directing inquiries throughout
the country for tioppers to Bryan
from Mckinley. The democratic list
is more formidable, because it in
tlndcs the entire country, While the
republicans have TO date confined
themselves to the west. All told there
are seven columns of names or persons
prominent either in the nation or in
their localities, who supported McIlin-
ley and will support Bryan.
Richard {. Olney and William S.
Wilson, of the last Cleveland cabinet,
who left the democratic reservation
in 1896, head the democratic list, and
the expressions giving the reasons for
the change have been secured from
gold democrats big and little, and
many eff the most successful business
men in the country. The democratic
bulletin is too elaborate To permit of
Its presentation entire. In part it fol-
lows:
THE many voters of foreign birth
who are leaving the republican party
give as their reason for doing so that
they are opposed to it's policy OF inn
perialism. Many of them. also. differ
with the present administration i'm re-
gard to it's colonial policy, and be-
lieve that the constitution is being
ignored iii the conduct of the admin
istratlon toward Cuba and Porto Rico.
Still others give as their reason fol.
coming over to Mr.. Bryan that they
believe, iii crisis, the country would
be safer lin his hands than in the
hands of the men who dictate Presi-
dent McKinley's course of action. In
view OF the continuance of the war in
the Philippines and the complicated
condition of affairs in China, they be-
lieve that there is grave danger of a
crisis to successfully carry this coun-
try through which will require clear
head and mature judgment, such as
Mr. Bryan possesses.
''Ex-secretary of State Olney has
written a letter declaring himself for
Mr. Bryan and advising all patriotic
citizens to support the democratic
candidate. Mir. Olney has always been
an eNpansionist, but has not confused
the Jetfersonian article with imperial
ism. His announcement came as a
bombshell into the republican camp
Webster Davi, at the Head.
'At the head of the list of converts
to democracy since the Kansas City
convention stand such names as Web
ster Davis, late assistant secretary of
the interior under MI. Mckinley; G..
J.: Wellington, senator from Mary
land; Patrick llgall, of New York,
who was minister to Chilli under Pres
idcnt llarrison; Thomas Wentworth
lligginson, of Boston, soldier, histo-
lian and litterateur, and a score of
others equally as prominent. The
republicans, i'll their desperation, are
announcing conversion after CONVEX
sion to Mcllillleyism. but they are UNI
able to present a list containing such
IL formidable array of names of ma
tional reputation as the above.
Webster Davis, who resigned his
! position as assistant secretary of the
! interior and cast his lot will, the
democrats, did so because he had yis-
tied South Africa and had become
convinced that the attitude OF the
present administration toward the
Struggling Beers was un-Amcrican
and unjust. He had been making
speeches for he democratic ticket
ever since he announced his CONVEX
sion Mt the Kansas City convention,
and his work has been he means of
changing hundreds of votes from Me
! Kinley TO Bryan.
United States Senator c. r.. We'll
llngtoh, OF Maryland, who was at one
time chairman of the republican state
central committee of his state, i'm am
nounclng his change of heart, says:
My opposition to the reelection of
MI. Mckinley is based upon antagon-
ism to the policy of territorial eNpan-
sion and its attendant evils, Justly
named imperialism, which has been
practiced by the present administra-
tioh with the evident purpose of fas-
tening it upon this country. / be-
lieve that this policy threatens not
I only he commercial, financial and So
cial we'll being of our land, but is I,
menace to self government as estab-
lished among us. ] believe the way
TO safety lies in tho defeat of the re-
publican candidate for the presidency
and to assure this deem it wise for
every man to vote for Bryan and
Stevenson
wv. A. Crofutt, of Washington, the
noted historian, who was on the
stump for Mckinley in 1896, and who
had been republican since the DAYS
OF Fremont. gives as his reasons for
supporting Bryan and Stevenson the
following: Il am for Bryan this veal
because the reelection of Mckinley
would make this country unfit TO live
in
"l:N-Lieutcnant Governor Jones OF
New York, who was an enthusiastic
supporter of Mr.. Mckinley in 1896
says in announcing his change of SEN