The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1900-10-25
JUDGE LOWE 5 CHANGE
Prominent CaldwelIian Who
Was for Bryan in $50
FOR M'KINLEY, AND WHY
His Fine, Eloquent Tribute to
Dennis Flynn.

| Caldwell; Kan, Oct 24-One Of the
prominent changes from Bryan four
years ago to Mckinley and Republican
ism this year is Judge H. B. Lowe OF
this city. Judge Lowe is engaged in the
! transfer business; also in real estate, and
/ has considerable property interests kere
and in Oklahoma He is well known ard
! is successful and popular.
Judge Lowe is former resident of
Kansas, having been here fifty years. In
Lyon county he was sheriff, and also
justice of the peace, and has also served
as police judge here. He was a warm
friend of the late Senator Plumb, and
was intimately associated with him at
one time. Speaking of his change Judge
Lowe said to a correspondent today:
81 believe the administration Of Will
lam Mckinley will go down as one of the
greatest and best in the country's his
tory. The administration has given us
prosperous times. It's good results are
everywhere apparent. The administra-
ton has been wise and patriotic. It has
been successful. Four years ago the
country was overrun with persons out Of
employment. Some days I had a dozen
applications for places; now it takes as
many days to secure a hand as 1 had
applications in .. day then.
Concerning hester I. Long, I desire
to go on recCi&- as saying that 1 consider
him the coming man of the west He
has made American politics a careful
at heart. I consider his speech on the
Porto Rican tariff the ablest I ever have
read.
I'm regard to Bryan, I would say that
he is what would be called in business
'fakir.' He has put in his time the past
four years at from $50 to s50O-some times
more-per lecture trying to convince the
American people that they were the
down-trodden of humanity. He would
have them believe they are destitute, Or
shortly will become so. His ideas are
theoretical, and he is un-American. As
to Stevenson, he was disloyal during the
war. I remember how he was head and
shoulders in the movement to organize
had treason as its object, and now he de-
sires Americans to vote for him. 1 can
not do it.
II do not regard the question of free
coinage of silver as pertinent in this cam
paign. Events of four years have dem
onstrated the fallacy of the arguments
and predictions of the Democrats then
Nothing has come true which they pre-
dicted. 1 can see how mine owners might
favor free coinage at 10 to l, but I can
not see where and how 1t viii benefit us.
ST believe in a sufficiently high pro-
tective tariff to kindle the fires and fur
naces in the mills and protect American
labor, and since the Republicans have
done that, I can stand the tariff.
I'm regard to imperialism, it occurs to
me that we are doing nothing more or
less than Democratic statesmen did
years ago. The some things were done
in Florida by Monroe; in Texas by Polk;
in Louisiana by jefferson, as In the Phil
ippines by Mckinley. If Mckinley was
an imperialist, why not those good Dem
ocrats Of the old days? The taking of
the Philippines was never sought. but
was the result of the effort to cripple
adversary, and the result of Yankee skill.
Everything since was done by treaty
Suppose we let go the islands Who as
sumes the responsibility? Would we turn
them over to riot and ruin and internal
dissension. which surely would result If
the Tagals and the flfty-nine other tribes
should attempt TO secure supremacy
there?
with regard to trusts, 7 consider it |
the most likely thing in the worl for |
man to place his money where he con-
siders it will bring him the speediest re-
turn. IF Democrats and Populists were |
anxious to bride the bad trusts, why |
did they not vote for the constitutional /
amendment when the Republicans pro- |
posed it the last session of congress? If /
they are sincere, why do they not refuse 1
their participation in the ice trust of New /
York City? and Jones in his cotton-bale |
trust?"
Speaking of Dennis Flynn. in reply to