The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1900-07-21

lection.
1T IL to-day. under Mr.. Bryans leader
ship. q party emphasizing a desire for
special privileges and class legislation.
appealing for the support OF every ele-
ment OF discomfort by falling In with and
advocating the particularly special legis-
lation which such element stands for.
Its demagogy Is manifest on every hand.
Raising of DOer Issue.
what thoughtful and inauiring person
can possibly believe that either Mr.. Bry-
an or the delegates at Kansas City are
really deeply solicitous to the extent
which 1t is made to appear that they are
as to the alleged wrongs of the Beers In
South Africa? Is 1t not manifest through
the thin disguise OF love of human
freedom, rights and republican form OF
government. that Mr.. Bryan and his fol-
lowers hope for the German and Dutch
vote as determining factor In the cleo
ton because of racial Affiliations with
the Beers and supposed race prejudice
against Great Britain, and not because
the question or the integrity of the Boer
republics Is so dear to them?
1T Is absurd that the great questions
with which we have to do affecting the
vital interests Of the United States shall
be overlooked In debate upon how Great
Britain shall conduct its own affairs,
especially In the face of a proclaimed re-
means. properly interpreted. that the peo-
pie of the United States shall attend to
their own affairs and let European ma
lions look after theirs.
Confidence In Germans.
Having voiced such sentiment, the
Kansas City convention. under the In
spiration of Mr.. Bryan. Immediately pro-
ceeds, for political effect to express
wish to interfere with a European gov
eminent In matter strictly its own. I
think such politics cheap and unstates-
manlike. quite beneath the dignity OF any
great party or leader.
II shall be surprised II any German
voter. heretofore the bulwark of the coun-
try against every assault upon the in
tegrity of the country's currency system
and protesting against any debasement
of the country's coin. will now aid and
abet such proceeding because OF be-
lief in any injustice done by Great Brit
ain to some affiliated race 10000 miles
away.
at Is all on a par with Mr.. Bryan's
constant reiteration of having here an
un-American financial system, forced on
as by and for the benefit of the English
and against our own interests. He cannot
but know that such statement Is made for
political effect, and that by making 1t he
OF more than half the voters who do not
agree with or support him.
''If Mr.. Bryan was statesman and not
a mere declaimer and dealt In states
manlike manner with American problems
we would not be treated to the floods OF
petulant fault-hnding and appeals to pref
udice which are manifest in all that he
says. but would have instead suggested
solutions. grounded upon principles and
in accord with the facts of national his
tory and national experience.
DIstrust His Wisdom.
1T am sure the American people right
ly dstrust the executive and admins
trative wisdom of one who thus far in
life has been living expression, In every
address he has made, of that best defini-
ton Of the essential elements of stump
speech to claim everything and denouncs
well.
II am not unmindful Of the fact that
there are many conditions in this coun-
try requiring careful, thoughtful and
statesmanlike dealing with. There are
many evils to which labor Is subject that
need to be remedied, Likewise there are
many prejudices unjustly entertained
against capital, but in neither instance
can they be dealt with to the good OF
all by anyone who brings to them none
of the elements of a statesman and all
cessful stump speaker and campaign ora
tor.
where Remedies Lie.
81 believe that more of the remedy lies
without the pale of enacted legislation
than within 1t. and that neither labor
nor capital Is benefited by public utter
ances on the platform, in legislative halls
and through the columns OF the press
to the effect that there Is an irrepres-
sible conflict between them.
II do not believe any man benefits his
country by being a preacher of discomfort,
strife between classes, social and po-
litical pessimism, financial error and
continuous financial gloom, despite sur
rounding and widespread prosperity, and
therefore 1 do not believe in Mr.. Bryan.
There is much in President McKinleys
administration and official acts 1 am not
in accord with. 1 do not accept repub-
lican doctrines as against pure demo-
cratic ones rightly interpreted and incor-
porated into the administration of pub
lie affairs. But as between republicanism
and populism filtered through the cham
mel of Organism, l prefer republicanism.
Denies His Democracy.
There Is no democratic doctrine pre-
scented this year and no democratic cam
didate. Mr.. Bryan was first named by
the populists because he best stood for
dorsed by the convention at Kansas City.
called under alleged auspices, because
Organism, populsm and democracy as
now made UP are synonymous terms.
THE combined forces of the elements
of discomfort of the country having gath
cred in one fold and found without a dis
senting voice a candidate so many sided
as to respond with an equal degree OF
satisfaction to each ones pecuiarities,
It seems to me the part of wisdim to
meet them in another election and again
demonstrate that the electorate of this
country in every critical time always
stands ready to do that which Is wise,
putting down the wrong thing and put
ting up the right.
To Vote for Mckinley.
IT am going to vote for President Me-
Kinley and do whatever I consistently
can to aid In his election, not because
favor all his policies or approve of all
of his political acts, but because under
all existing conditions believe the affairs
OF the country will be better off in his
hands than in those of Mr.. Bryan.
81 hope some time to see the demo-
cratic party recreated. advocating demo-
cratic candidates and democratic prin-
ciples. but 1t cannot be more than a
disturbing force in the country's daily
history until 1t ribs itself of leadership
which has brought 1t to its present low
estate and ceases making itself the lying
In asylum of those elements of discon-
tent which, II once intrusted with gov