The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1900-08-10
BRYAN AND SOUTHERN DEMOCRATS

Evening SClmltar, Democratic daily
paper published at Memphis, Tenn,
under date of Wednesday, July %,
and mailed to r. S. Slower of this city
by Avery Hubbard, formerly Allen
county man, now residing there; eff
you want to get line on Bryan's
chances of winning the Presidential cleo
tion," said apolitical observer yester-
day to the simitar man "just take
walk down Front street and Main
streets, drop into thirty or forty bust
ness houses and talk politics with men
who have been Democrats from their
youth up. | tried-the experiment yes
terday morning and tell you open
ed my eyes. | talked with men repre-
senting the great industrial and mer-
camille life of Western Tennessee,
Mississippi, Arkansas and Alabama,
and out of forty-three men selected
haphazard on the way down the street
found that eight were in favor of
Bryan's and thirty-fve in favor of
Mckinley election. The result was
not only surprising. 1t was also
startling.
81 put to each man three questions:
Are you Democrat? Shall you vote
for Bryan? Do you want to see Bryan
elected? Every one of the forty-three
men | talked with answered the first
question in the affirmative. They are
all democrats. To the second ques-
ton, Shall you vote for Bryan! eight
men clinched their jaws and said Yes,
sir" with vengeance. Thirty-five
evaded a definite answer on the second
proposition, every one responded with
an emphatic NO when asked the third
question-Do you waht to see Bryan
elected?
"They were prompt and decided in
their answers to that question. Their
reasons were interesting. They went
over the old story that they were
,Southerners, believed in the Southern
Democracy, had faith in the idea that
the white man must rule this country.
All of them would vote the Democratic
State ticket from governor down to
constable. But on national questions
they baked. I've got no use for this
fellow Bryan, said one of them. Il
think he's cheap man. He may be
honest and courageous; but it is the
honesty of ignorance and the courage
of emotion. He isn't broad-minded,
intellectually dignifed statesman.
He's pickayunish politician, with a
yellow demagogic streak running
through him. He represents the sit
Observation-Disclosures at "a mark"
element in society. He's disconso-
late ass brayimg out lamentations in
the most prosperous and most fortu-
nate country in the world. Now, I'm
hopeful, confident, optimistic man.
1 think this is first-rate country to
live in. I've travelled throughout the
earth, and l know that opportunities
in the United States are larger than
in any other country in this planet.
And / think that the American people
ought to rise up in their might and
smite down this apostle of despair so
overwhelmingly that he'll never be
heard of again. And they III dot, too.
Nov you'll see if they don't
"And here is what Front street
merchant who is a prominent Cath
Ollie had to say about wanting to see
Bryan elected: NO, sir = he replied,
quick and sharp, I'm not Republi-
can. / am not a Mckinley Hanna
man. 1 don't like this imperialism
business. But think we've troubles
enough now, without going ahead and
plunging the country into the abyss
of Organism. If we must have wars,
we will need money to carry them on
successfully; and in order to get
money and have it in abundance we
must keep in power a President who
will preserve safe, sound aud stable
currency. Reduced to the last equa'
ton, money rules the world. If there
is ahead of us world stauggle,
want to see this nation go into it fully
equipped with the best guns and
armament to make the fight. ! want
to see our mechanics and artisans in
the factories at home equipped witt
the finest tools to carry on the eco
nomic battle ahead of us. And the
finest tools, as every one knows, are
the money standard under which We
now live and do business, | do no
want to see Bryan elected because
believe his Inauguration as Presiden
would carry with it threat agains
the business prosperity OF my country
and my countrymen. That's the whole
thing in nutshell. We must rebulS
this heathenish gospel of disconten