People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — PALMER’S QUEER TALK. [ARTICLE]

PALMER’S QUEER TALK.

Democratic Candidate Says Me Cannot Blame Any Citizen Who Votes tor the BepubUcan Nominee. “I cannot blame any voter who may conclude to vote for McKinley.” This was the remarkable statement made by Senator John M. Palmer, sol .id money democratic candidate for president, in the presence of nearly 4,000 people. It otcurred In the course of his remarks at the Auditorium last night, and has started some lively talk among politicians. In no political campaign since the government was established has a presidential candidate been known to frankly admit that it might be a good thing to vote for his adversary “THOSE WHO ARE MOST FEARFUL THAT THERE WILL BE A LAXITY OF THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAW ARE THE VERY PERSONS WHO WOULD SUFFER MOST’ IF THE LAWS WERE ENFORCED. THE VERY PERSONS WHO ARE AFRAID THE LAWS WILL BE VIOLATED WITH IMPUNITY ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW WITH IMPUNITY.” MR. BRYAN. The St. Louis platform pledges the republican party to use its utmost endeavors to substitute the free coinage of silver by international agreement for the gold standard, but the whole republican campaign since the adjournment of the convention has been one united and protracted effort to fasten the gold standard permanently on this country end to defeat free coinage by any means.