Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1900 — Dawson Smith Gives Dems a Biff. [ARTICLE]

Dawson Smith Gives Dems a Biff.

Dawson Smith, a well known attorney of Fowler formerly of Kentland, aud chairman of the Benton county democratic oentral committee, has resigned his position in that organization and publicly repudiated Bryanisum. In a card published in the Fowler Republican he says: “I would Shot vote for William J. Bryan render any cicumstances. From F the time Bryan first expressed himself to the present on the financial question he has invariably maintained that if the gold stand-, ard was adopted it would so increase the value of money that every laboring man would have his wages reduced in proportion to the difference between the prices of the prices of the two metals. And now it turns out that during the very week the Congress of the United States adopted the gold standard the great manufactories of every industry in the country have advanced, unsolicited, every woikingman’s wages from 10 to 25 per cent. And I want to say farther that I believe that whereever one drop of an American soldier’s blood has been shed, over that spot the stars and stripes should float forever. This ought to, be plain enongh for anybody arid should show where I stand on the questions now before the people.”