People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — GENERAL GRANT'S SON FOR BRYAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GENERAL GRANT'S SON FOR BRYAN.

"If jdv father could vote today he would vote for Bryan for President of the United States." • The above words are from the lips of Jesse Grant, favorite son of Gen. U. S- Grant l lie son has left the Republican party just as bis father before him left the Democratic party when it made a compromise with the slave power. Iq his farewell to the Republican party Jesse Grant writes: * “I believe honestly in the great advantage to this country of the free coinage of silver. It does not mean repudiation of otrr debts at home or abroad, these debts will have to be paid in products, and anything, that will raise the value of them will, 1 believe, benefit all classes. “If we can double the price of a silver rupee we have doubled the price of the wheat that comes into competition with our wheat, and therefore double our wheat as to its debt paying capacity. The same argument holds good of the silver peso .of the Latin-American countries and the price (Of our meats and live stock. It holds good, too, in the silver ruble and the price of oil It holds good in many ways too numerous to •mention. “Instead ot foreigners purchasing the product of our silver mines at tffe rate of 70 cents per ounce, and with this silver buying produce, some of which comes in direct competition with our productions, from South America and the orient, they would have to pay at the rate of $1.29 per ounce.

“As to repudiation, why, we have practb tally repudiated already if bankruptcy means failure to pay debts. Did you ever think of what an awful debt America owes today? Nineteen thousand millions of mortgaged indebtedness. All the gold and silver in the world would not pay one-third of this single item of mortgage indebtedness, and under our present arrangement of things the awful disparagement between the ability to produce and the power of money to accumulate interest makes the breach between this country and solvency grow wider every year. Prices go down, money going up. Interest eating, eating all the time, How can it ever be paid? The free coinage of silver 1 do not believe tq he a panacea for all our evils, but 1 do believe

it a step in the rigHf “direction and for the best interest of the American people.” Signed, JESSE GRANT P. S. —Of course Mark Hanna asd his multi-millionaire campaign committee are calling Jesse Grant an anarchist, a repudiator, a thief and a scoundrel. Let the people vote Hanna and his crowd out of existence November 3d. If they don’t "they will never get another chance.