The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-12
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Hosts of Republicans of National Prominence
Support the Democratic Candidate.

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1t is announced from Washington
by the close friends of Senator George
c. Wellington of Maryland that the
latter will take the stump for Bryan
and Stevenson. The Republican SEN
ator's hostility to Imperialism is given
as the cause. He is quoted as follows:
/ am opposed to President McKin-
ley because he has deceived me in ma
tional affairs, and 1 shall oppose his
reelection"
Jackson H. Kalston and Clement S.
ECKER, two other prominent Repub-
means of Maryland, will actively sup
port the Democratic presidential ticket
this year.
Washington Men for Bryan.
General William Birney of Washing
ton has announced himself as a sup
porter of Mr.. Bryan against Mr.. Nc
Kinley and says that he has been
drawn into communion with the Dem
ocratic party because of it's position on
the question Of imperialism. He wants
a republic and not an empire He
wants the constitution observed. If it
is 10 be changed or modified he con-
tends that it should be amended in
the constitutional way and not arbi-
trarily set aside. General Birney was
a major general in the Union army
during the civil war. He is a son of
James @. Birney, who was twice a
candidate for president of the United
States on the Free Soil or Liberty
ticket in 1910 and 1874, and who con-
tributed so largely to the defeat of
Henry Clay.
Colonel Charles James Of Washing
ton, a Lincoln Republican, will vote
and write and speak against Mckinley
and Roosevelt. Colonel James was ap-
pointed collector of the port of San
Francisco by President Lincoln.
Henry +. Keenan,, an author of note,
who has heretofore always cham
pioned the cause of the Republican
party, will do what he can to aid in
the election of Mr.. Bryan. Mr. Kee-
nan is a successful novelist, among his
works being the Aliens "Trajan."
the Money Makers" He is also the
author of a history Of the Spanish
American war. He is a Democrat only
on the issue of imperialism. Even the
question of trusts he regards as trifing
compared with this.
Irish Republicans for Bryan.
Captain Patrick O'FarreIl, a promi-
nent local pension attorney, who has
heretofore affiliated with the ReDubli-
can party, is now a Bryan man, and
has offered his services TO the Demo-
cratic national committee. He is a
speaker of considerable force, is prom
inent in Irish-American circles, and is
considered a valuable acquisition to
the Democratic party
Rosa Downing. local attorney, who
heretofore has been a Republican, has
Ga tho =.
take the stump for Mr.. Bryan.
Dominick I. Murphy, former COM
missioner of pensions. who, though a
Democrat, has been rather a silent one
for several years, is active in the sup
port OF Mr.. Bryan, and will take as
signments on the stump from the
Democratic campaign managers.
Lifelong Republican Changes.
DR.. w. A Croffut, who has been
known as a lifelong Republican, and
who has voted that ticket at every
presidential election since 1860, with
the exception of the Cleveland Blaine
contest, says he will go upon the stump
in the interest of Mr.. Bryan. The over
shadowing issue is, he said, imperial
ism. There were a number of4ninor is
sues, which he thought would be lost
sight of rs the campaign progressed.
Though men might disagree upon these
subordinate points of difference be-
tween the two great parties and their
candidates. he said. on the question
of imperialism all Americans, who be-
lieve in a republican form of govern
ment should stand with the Democrat
ic party.
Monet on Roosevelt.
Ex-Attorney General Frank S. Mo-
nett of Ohio, who led the fight in that
state against the Standard Oil company
and who was retired from politics by
Mark Hanna for so doing, says:
Zone is surprised at the cold indiffer-
ence on the part of the ignorant, pill
LACED victims of the trust, who are
only too willing to look at the balloon
while the trust robbers reach their
hands into their pockets and enter
their homes and rob them of their re-
sources.
Our Republican leaders are banking
on the spectacular, and already see in
their minds miles of Rough Riders, on
horseback, with SLOUGH hats, following
bands paid for by Standard Oil money
and listening to United States senators
with Standard Oil fees and steel trust
fees in their pockets, telling the poor
deluded devils how thankful they ought
TO be that the neager recompense they
have received for their days wages Is
allowed to them at all. and that the
times are not as they used TO be I'M
der Democratic ruling.
Zone dollar and a quarter, with ne
cessities from so to 400 per cent higher
than normal competition would make
them. is the prosperity that is much
better than they formerly had.
"One glance at Teddy's hat and a
whoop and a snort from rural post
master and our leaders think they will
accomplish more than all logical argu-
ments and antitrust speeches..
Mr.. w. B. Haldeman, proprietor Of
the Louisville Courier-JOurnal and
prominent gold Democrat. says:
81 am compelled, with a sense OF
what is due to the free America that
I love, to earnestly, actively support
an American whom l believe loves his
country, and whom l believe to be the
highest and best type of an American
citizen, and thus believing snail vote
for and support William Jennings Bry-
an"
Two Big Men From Kansas
Former Lieutenant Governor Felt, for
a, quarter of a century prominent in
the Republican party in Kansas. has
resigned the craftsmanship of the Ne
maha county Republican committee,
and declared for Bryan and Stevenson.
Mr.. s. J. Shivel, another prominent
Republican of Kansas, has written TO
Secretary Mize of the anti-Imperialist
league, placing himself in line with
that Organization. Part of his letter
follows: Il have been Republican all
my life and Joined the army at the
presidents first call in 1898. was a
member of the Kansas regiment of vol
unteers that went to the Philippines.
/ was in all the engagements of that
regiment. The greatest wrong ever
committed by this nation is the forci-
BILE annexation of the Philippines.
Those people ought to be free. They
are entitled to freedom. They are ca