The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-21
ours RANKS OF BRYAN.


years as first assistant postmaster
general. In signed statement to the
Republican national committee this
thirty-year Democrat and former post
Office official gives his reasons for re-
nouncing Bryan and the Democratic
party, saying that he does not want
prosperity to be imperiled by the ''un-
sound experiment policies" of the Ne.
braskan, and that the country needs
Taft to carry on the Roosevelt pol
icies." The following statements in
his letter will commend themselves
to thinking people generally:
Il shall vote for Mr.. Taft because
believe his election will insure pros
perity to the farmer, the mechanic.
the business man and the country gen.
orally
He is wise, safe, conservative
and courageous thinker on economic
questions affecting the people and the
public welfare
He has had large and responsible
experience in public affairs and has
discharged his many important public
duties well, faithfully and patrioticai-
ly with repeated proofs of his great
administrative ability.
HE is a strong, forceful, straight
forward man, direct and frank in
speech and act and without subterfuge
or evasion. He is a man of the peo-
pie, full of sympathy for his fellow
men, hating oppression and unfair
dealings and devoted to the best de-
velopment of this country on just and
fair lines that shall insure to every
one his just and fair proportion of this
country's prosperity
The country needs Mr.. Taft to car
ry on the Roosevelt policies on calm,
thoughtful, conservative but positive
lines influenced only by what he be-
lieves to be for the best and perma-
nent good of the people and the
maintenance of this government upon
righteous, upright and dignified
plane.
Il have great respect for Mr.. Bry-
ans personal character and patriot
ism and as a public speaker he has
few. If any, equals, but | regard him
as an unsound and dangerous thinker
on economic questions. Unsound be-
cause his public utterances for the
last twelve years or more prove il,
Dangerous because has the courage of
his convictions, and has a wonderful
spell-binding oratorical power in advo-
eating and advancing his views, but
no position he has taken on economic
questions for the last twelve years
(unless it be the tariff. and on this he
has wabbled some), has stood the
test of time, thought and investiga-
ton, and one by one they have been
repudiated by the people OF this coun-
try as unsound and dangerous to their
best interests.
The Democratic party was sound
money party, but under the DONNA
ton of Mr.. Bryan it was forced into
the unsound position of advocating
the free and unlimited coinage of sill
Z yer at 16 to l, the adoption of which
as policy of this country meant the
collapse of business, the cheapening
OF the purchasing power of wages and
a blow to this country it would have
taken years to recover from, and If
we are to judge by recent letters of
MI Bryan this cheap money virus
is still in his system"
Attention is called to the facs nat
M Bryan favored, and as far as
known, still in his heart favors gov
eminent ownership of railroads, which
Mr.. Jones declares is "a rank pattern
al doctrine totally antagonistic to the
teachings and beliefs of the old Dem
ocracy unsound and dangerous on
economic and administrative lines in
a government such as ours and totally
inconsistent with our form of govern
ment.' Mr. Bryan also favors the
guaranteeing of bank deposits and has
committed the Democratic party IN
Its platform and in his public speeches
to this unsound and dangerous doc
trlne. 1t must be admitted. Mr.. Jones
says, that on economic questions aft.
fectlng the farmer, the mechanic
business and the country generally
either Mr. Bryan IS dangerously un.
sound or he is willing to mislead the
people and threaten their prosperity
BY advocating measures he knows tc
be unsound, merely because for the
moment his views seem popular. 1r
conclusion Mr.. Jones says with great
, force and good sense.
II do not want to see the prosner
ity of this country threatened bv nm
sound experimental policies such a,
Mr. Bryan's past career proves h,
is TOO prone to indulge in.
Business confidence must he main
tanned, the factories kept busy and Ia
Dor employed and the farmer mus
not be disturbed in the prosperitv h,
Is now enjoying.
The calm, forceful, intelligent an,
conservative attitude of Mr.. Taft i
all of the important questions affec
ing the public good assures us {
continued progress.
: To risk Mr.. Bryan is dangerous I
our business prosperity"