Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1904-10-26
BRYANlTE CHANGES
COL. Q. c. SABlN COMES OUT
SQuARELY FOR ROOSEVELT.
Former Silver knight says the Men
Now in Control of the Democratic
Party We're Its Enemies in the Cam
paigns of 1896 and 1900.

NOl' plINet - 'SdHlu, formerly OF Colo
RADIO, but now of Washington. who was
one of W. j. Bryan's most enthusiastic
supporters in the campaigns Of 1896 and
1900, has abjurel Democracy, aud will
vote for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Dur
ang the campaigns named Col Sabin was
associated with Senator Stewart of Ne
vada, in conducting the SILVER Knight"
free silver paper and in organizing
THE Silver knights Of America a
free silver organization. He also assist
ed in the writing Of the book, The Hand
of Money" circulated so extensively
throughout the country in the first cam
paign of Bryan. In letter, recently
published, Col. Sa1ia says:
How it is possible for man who is
honestly in favor Of the reconciliation
of silver to support Judge Parker, who
is the very pet. the idol. you might say,
of those men who defeated Bryan,
cannot conceive. Look over the whole
list from exPresideut Cleveland, eX-
Senator Hill, Richar, Olney. and with
out naming Them { whole manage
ment of the Parker } ovement now, and
we find that they were either the active
or passive enemies Of free silver and of
Mr.. Bryan, and. in fact. of everything
that we, as silver men. held to be inn
portant in our campaign. They not
only were against Us in sentiment but
they organized a third party. went in
and tried to destroy Mr.. Bryan and the
Democratic party, and they succeeded.
Now this same old gang, bought up by
the trusts, heeIed by the trusts, sup
ported by monopolistic money, the
grinders of the face of the poor is GO
ing out asking for tle votes of silver
men to support man and a party that
has abused us and our ,eople more than
they ever have the Republican party.
More Money in Circulation.
''Fhe Republican party, with what
faults it may have cannot be accused
of being insincere, and, furthermore the
Republican party has come to where we
wanted them. What we wanted in re
gard to money was more of IT, and the
Republicans came to ii IN different
way OF course none of us cared for the
simple question of silver, only as 1t ar
fected the volume of currency There
was too small an amount of money IN
circulation to 10 the business Of the
country. Now we have plenty of
money.
Look at the financial condition of our
country now. Whoever saw such coun-
try? Where in all history is there rec
ord of a country as prosperous as we are
to-day? Look at our immense eXporta-
ton of goods, billions of dollars being
brought into our country from abroad
more than we send out. The like was
never seen before. Our farmers only
few years ago in the Western States
were borrowing money at anywhere from
6 to 10 and in some States L per
cent Look at them now. You cannot
loan them money, and most of them
have money to loan, and they are glad
to get ) or 6 per cent for it. God IS on
our side, and the very earth responds to
good times. Look at our corn crop bill
lions Of bushels wheat by the hundreds
of millions, and at prices seldom before
equaled.
Good Time to "Stand Pat"
Taking it altogether, we find every
body ana everything prosperous and
MS il stands now | am of the opinion,
very much, of these Iowa fellows who
believe in the doctrine of standing
pat.' | believe it is well to let good
enough alone. |, or any other person
except politicians, do not care who IS
in power, for there is no political ia
vors we ask, only this, we want pros
pprity for our c0untry-good times; we
want our laboring men to be furnished
with plenty of work at good tunes
wages. who are thereby enabled to
educate their children, dress them
selves respectfully, give themselves good
homes. and it makes them valuable and
useful citizens.
president Roosevelt has never left
MS in doubt where he was ON any ques-
ton. always straight. honest, true and
SQUARE. He is an American from the
crown of his head to the soles of his
feet and nobody can have any doubt as
to his standing by the flag of our coun-
trv and commanding honest respect. The
Democrats would do well not TO carry
on their campaign expecting to obtain
votes from the American people by abus-
ing the personality of Mr.. Roosevelt. If
rhey do. he will be elected by the largest
ana iority any President has ever been
since the days of Horace Greeley. Ev-
ervhody knows Mr. Roosevelt is straight.
and whether you are his political friend
ar enemy. you know he is gentleman,
honest. upright and sincere.
THE attempt to show that he is wild
and erratic has no force Whatever be-
cause he has already had charge of the
government for nearly four years, and
he has done nothing but what was right
surrounding himself with the very best
class Of advisers. and if he has succeeded
for the first four years of his admin
istration. couldn't he do it four more?
Cant we trust him better than Mr.. Par
ker. led by Mr.. Hill?
Men should BE Honest.
II think. furthermore that in politics,
"a we'll as in the affairs of life, man
shonld be honest and sincere. Now
the gentlemen who are managing this
Parker boom are neither honest nor
sincere Mr.. Hill. l suppose to be the
manager of the whole concern, as he
nominated Mr.. Parker in the convention;
Mr. Parker is his creation Mr.. Hill
az n Democratic convention IN the State
of New York openly advocated and
passed a resolution TO the effect of gov
er1ment ownership of all the coal mines;
Mt the same time he and his friends,
under cover, were making fun OF the
idea. and thought it was good scoop
on the Republicans. They would no
more think of carrying it into practice
H.. +bo,- v,-n,l1 Of flying