Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1900 — OUTSPOKEN NEBRASKAN [ARTICLE]

OUTSPOKEN NEBRASKAN

Observations by the Only-Democratic Governor That State Ever Had. ■- . > t James E. Boyd, the only Democratic governor .Nebraska ever had. is radically opposed to several of the Bryanite doctrines. . -Gov. Boyd, who has l.ei n a member of tlie 1 >emu< rat ic national commitfetufrom Nebraska.- and. has always stood high in. tlie party councils, says: ‘•The greatest mistake Bryan ever made was to require the Kansas City convention to reiterate the 1G to 1 silver free coinage plank. He emphasized it beyond all others, thus doing what the Republicans would have him do. It will cause Mr. Bryan’s defeat under heavier majorities than were given four years ago. It was sheer idiocy. Money was never so plentiful and the Interest rate never so low. Prices.of farm products were never better, and the producer’s are getting gold money for their products. Prosperity, everywhere in evidence, can not be talked down. It may not be due to McKinley, but it is possible under the policy for which McKinley stands. •With America. icapcrbUism ir impossible. We have been acquiring territory ever since the government was founded, yet this is not an empire. To say that new territory, added from time to time, will be followed by the acclamation of the emperor to rule over us is absurd. Bryan may deceive some of the people by his far-fetched cry of imperialism, but the scare will not be of long duration.”