The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1900-10-25

KAN: Il voted for Bryan and all the
other fusion candidates four years
ago, but If I live I shall support the
straight Republican ticket this year.
l haven't voted the Republican ticket
since the days before the Greenback
party. but you can count me this time
sure"
81 Hughes, Populist, Ottawa, Kan:
THE Republican party has done what
we Populists have been striving to ac-
complish, and that was to bring good
times. 1t would not be wise to change
now"
James L. Davis, a lifelong Demo-
GRAFT, C~hillicothe, Mo-, who has
stumped the state for the Democrats
for thirty years: "Mr. Mckinley has
done nothing more than his duty I'M
der the treaty of Paris. For every act
in his administration Mr..
Mckinley had ample authority from
presidents established by Democratic
presidents who preceded him."
Attorney ]. E. Robinson, Fargo, S.
D., who is known throughout the state:
MANY Populists who once voted for
Bryan now propose to vote for Nc
Kinley. We never vote to haul down
the flag, and we never vote so as to
encourage armed rebellion. The gen
uine Populist must be a patriot. We
voted for Bryan as the honest and
able champion Of free silver coinage
and monetary expansion. Conditions
have changed; there Is no longer
dearth Of money. That has been we'll
relieved by the discovery of rich gold
mines, which yield an output Of about
$100, 900 900 a year, and by the bank
ing and currency act, which add large
ly to the circulating medium. The
circulation is now larger than at any
other time in the history Of the coun-
try. The Mckinley administration
has been such as to inspire and retain
the confidence of the nations and the
confidence of the business world, and
the result has been a period of COM
mercial expansion, Of trade balances,
Of thrift and prosperity, such as was
never recorded in the history of any
country"
Judge E. H. Norton, Of Platte City,
Mo-, ex-member of the Missouri Su-
preme Court, an old-time Democrat,
did not approve his party's platform
on the money question in 1896 and he
has no taken up the cry of imperial
ism in this campaign. He regards 1t
as a false issue and says: II regard
it as a mere blind behind which to
hide the real issue, viz: the free and
unlimited coinage Of silver at the ra-
ito of 16 to 1. The charge Of imper-
ialism is based by Mr.. Bryan upon the
action of President Mckinley, in en-
deavoring to maintain the authority of
the United States in the Philippine
islands, by putting down by force the
armed rebellion of Aguinaldo. I re-
gard the silver plank in the platform,
together with the assailment Of the
integrity of the courts, as revolution
airy in the extreme-as freighted with
evil-promotiye of disorder and blood
shed-destructive to the best interests
of the law-abiding-at war with good
government, and an invitation to the
lawless to commit unlawful acts with
i%mpunity."
j. b. ,Dozier, District Attorney. Of
Shasta County, Cal, and a leading
Democrat Of northern California:
"The great civilization which we have
achieved and our great development
Is due to the spirit of expansion. I
believe the action taken by the gov
eminent of the United States in regard
to its foreign policy Is right, just, pro-
gressiye and proper"
John B. Rhoades, proprietor and
operator of the cotton and wooden
mills at Aston Mills, Delaware Coun-
ty, Pa, several times chairman of the
Delaware County Democratic Com
mittee: II am still a Democrat but
cannot give my support to Bryan. He
is a man who is always trying to
cause a dissatisfaction between the
laboring classes and the capitlists, and
in my judgment these two forces
should always be harmonious. / con-
slider any man who endeavors to make
these two forces clash, is nothing
short of a demagogue and not a safe
msn to be entrusted with the import
ant position of President of the Unit
ed States"
John Warren H%ardenbergh, Jersey
City, N. j.: Sound money"
Judge R. j. Graham, a well-known
lawyer of Ottawa, Kan, was one of
the strongest Bryan men of the citysin
1896. He served as justice of the
peace by appointment of Gov. Leedy
and was nominated by the f%usionists
for the same oficeaa year ago.. Judge
Graham has campaigned all W.
Franklin county for fusion. 1.-THE
only question Of Importance to me in
this campaign is the question of 'ex-
pansion,' or as the Democrats are
pleased to term it, imperialism On
this question l am fully in accord with
the present administration and have
been from the beginning. We have a
much right to own, control and gov
ern the Philippine Islands as we have
the territory embraced in Texas or.
that acquired by the Louisiana pur-
chase"