The Iola register., 1900-10-19


huence veterans to cas- their votes for
Col Bryan for president and | am
asked to assist by money and work. in
distributing copy of the above
named paper containing the open
letter" referred to, to every veteran in
the State"
| Judge from your letter that you
must he mistaken in regard to my
political status. which | will take
great pleasure in defining. ] cast my
first vote for president in 1860 for
Abraham Lincoln, and my last vote
,our years ago, for William McKin-
ley, and being well pleased with his
stewardship, | expect to vote for him
again in November. making eleven
times / will have voted for candidates
for presid ents. / am most heartily
opposed to the leading issues of the
Bryan party. viz: free silver, and the
so-called anti-imperialism
The first was settled four years ago
and is regarded rs a dead issue blythe
country at large including three
fourthS of the Democratic party as
demonstrated at its convention at
Kansas City where Col Bryan showed
his views on Imperialism by forcing
down the unwilling throats of three
fourths of the del gates the nauseating
plank of free silver at the ratio of
Is to1.
Imperialism. of which so much is
said in the "open letter" lis, | think.
well defined by Judge Norton, late a
justice of the supreme court of Mis-
souri, and Democrat, who says: 1T
is scarecrOw which scares nobody
And as Ex-Governor Churchill of Ar
kansas, another Democrat, says: I'm
| perialism means nothing and is simply
used to scare the ignorant
The quotations from Lincoln in the
'open letter. when considered in their
| full connecting sentences would no
doubt be fully endorsed by President
Mckinley and all other good Republi-
cans. but how Col. Bryan or any of
his kind, occupying the same position
and clothed in the mantles of Voorhees,
and Nalandingham can utter the name
of Lincoln and not have their throats
! parched, is more than | can under
stand.
| was in the service from 1861 to
| 1866, and some of the most discOurag-
| ing things we had to contend with
were the acts ofthose legitimate politi-
cal ancestors and predecessors of the
| present sO-callcd "anti-imperialists
lne 'cOppefuedus ana hulSHls ol
the Golden circle, representing one
wing oi the Democratic parry, whose
newspapers came down To the men al
| the ironl covered with the cuarsest
cartoons, ana NlIc>j eWlhrls, concern
/ IN" he great patriot whose nfmc they
mo" orh1E forward to- GriP uheW ia'I-
. ir- cause, and now their successors
are engaged iu tle same uupariotc
hl.iIg.- tI NfIiIN'uu mud pu l.nuiDf-
ING heir government and thereby as
s.tting it, enemies.
In my aliusIou TO Cupperhead Demo
Gratis. 90 not wish to Ge misunder-
stood. There was large part OF
these Democrats who put country
before party aud nobly and herolcally
strengthened the hands OF the govern
ment by their fortunes ana ihelr lives.
history repeats llSell ana many OF
these men ana thelr sons are TO be
found at TINS time in the same good
work.
A word about the situation in the
Philippines. Ihe tlllplnos, IN the
"open letter" are referred to as men
who are seeking liberty. our govern
ment Is accused OF governing them, or
trying to do so, without their consent.
If remember rightly, during the
great civil war there was some such
talk. and there were four years OF
preliminary argument before the con-
3 sent OF the lO,OOO, 600 peoplestruggling
for their freedom was finally OH
tanned. / was a member OF the
Twentieth Kansas ana was with the
regiment in the Philippines. ! took
great pains to inform myself as to the
wishes OF the plain people ~ OF that
country and their feeling toward the
. Americans and having interviewed
? hundreds. from Manila to san Fer
= nando, believe | am as well informed
as to their feelings and wishes as any
one can be who is 10000 miles away,
e and has never come into actual con
o tack with the people and knows moth
J ing OF their wishes except through
$ other parties who might be interested
1 in concealing their true condition.
IL 8 81.