Golden Valley chronicle. (Beach, Billings County, N.D.) 1905-1916, 1908-10-16
Democratic Leaders from Coast to
Coast Reject Vagaries Of the
Nebraska Weather Vane. II
william Prentiss Of Chicago Says
Bryan ~ President Would Ne
Tailurs-SoutherA Lifelons Demo-
Gratis Repudiats the Candidate
Who Tramples On His Ideals to
Catch Votes

The number of prominent Democrats
Ill over the country who have an
nounced their desertion Of Bryan and
have advised their friends to vote for
Taft and Sherman Is Il matter of grave
. concern to Mr.. Bryan's Managers. In
Richmond, Va. always rock-ribbed
citadel OF Democracy, Taft business
mems club has been organized. with
hundreds Of members, and in Baltimore
the defections Of leading Democrats
has become the subject Of daily Sc
rial in the newspapers. These illus
tratiOns are given not because they are
exceptional in this campaign, but be-
cause of their geographical location.
In Chicago Il sensation was caused
BY William Prentiss. who announced
that he will support Taft instead Of
Bryan for President and Deneen in
stead Of Stevenson for Governor. Mr..
Prentiss has been a Democratic lead
ter In Chicago for several years. He
was Civil Service Commissioner under
Mayor Dunno and has several times
been Democratic candidate for judge.
In 1898 he was chairman of the Demo
cratic State convention. He was for
merly an ardent Bryan partisan.
In letter made public recently Mr..
Prentiss charges Bryan with betraying
his followers and forsaking the prin-
ciples for which he stood prior to the
present campaign.
Z Mr.. Prentiss says:
"Bryan claims that he 10 the man to
continue and extend Roosevelt's work,
claiming much OF it as suggestions Of
his own. Less than three months ago
/ preferred Bryan as Roosevelt's sue
cessor. He was my party leader. III
whom I then had full confidence. But.
% before indicated, my faith in Bryan
10 q relic. Bryan, not the ideal Bryan
Of the past, but the real Bryan Of to.
day, surrounded by the Macks. MUIR
phys, McGraws, Taggarts, Sullivans
and Joe Baileys ct al. Of the present.
day Democratic party. at the best could
% out q dismal failure"
California Democrats fer Taft.
John J. Barrett, for years one of the
most brilliant orators Of the Demo
cratic party Of California, has regis
tered this year as Republican. That
registration has given the Democratic
managers shock only second to that
which they felt when they learned that
N. #. Tarpey had deserted the shift
Ing cause Of Bryan.
MY registration speaks for ITSELF"
said Mr.. Barrett. When asked to
state my politics said was Re.
publican. That tells the tale
Barrett preached Democratic doc
trines from all the stumps Of Califor-
Mia.
Reasons os . North Carolinsn.
Regardless Of past affiliations, stu
dents of affairs. delivers and thinkers
are fast lining up for Judge Taft. 4
recent example is that of Silas McKee,
editor Of the Churchman, Of New York
In an interview he says:
II am North Carolinan by birth and
q lifelong Democrat. shall vote for
Mr.. Taft because he has 1t in his heart
to bring my people Of the South back
into absolute union with the national
life and to their historic place as con-
trolling force In the nation, and to do
which would immortallze him AZ a
statesman.
II shall vote for him because he more
nearly represents my ideals Of govern
ment, OF social order and economic pol
icy than any living Democrat, or an,
man before the people to-day, save
alone Theodore Roosevelt, who is the
only Republican President l have ever
voted for. Mr.. Taft has administered
every trust committed to him by the ma
ton with an eye single to the nations
good and for the highest interests of
the people that compose the nation"
The Roster In Baltinore.
Mr.. George r. Willis. former prest.
dent Of the Police Board of Baltimore
and Democrat Of the old school will
cast the first Republican vote since he
attained his majority. Mr.. Willis will
vote for Taft.
"Under no circumstances covid vote
for Bryan" said he, ''for the reason
that do ro+ believe he Is since !, and
Il sincere, il not q good man for P .es,.
dent of the United States
slow do you gauge public senti.
nsnt r. Mr.. Willis was asked.
Among nv clientele I knoY &C nc