Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1900 — Page 8

CAMPAIGN ASSAULT

History of Its Defeat In Methodist General Conference. PRESIDING ELDER’S STORY Prohibition rst's Charge, Disproved and Attack Defeated. The Outcome of a Charge of Tippling Against the President and its Investigation—McKinley “a Pure, Christian Statesman of Whom I the'Church Might Be Proud - ’ Defense of the President by a Political Opponent Who Served In Congress With Him. A presiding eldef of one of the most conferences in the northvest, thoroughly familiar with all of. the facts he presents, has written the following to a friend: “President McKinley should, receive the support of the whi’le moral and religious influence of the country. He h entitled to it by the purity of his private life, by the grand record he has made in congress and. since he became president, and by all of the glorious possibilities for the nation and the world that are involved and assured in his re-election. As is well known. President McKinley is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church It is also widely known that Samuel Dickie, for several years Chairman of the Prohibition national committee, stated before several meetings of Methodist preachers and In his paper. The New Voice, that, at a banquet in Chicago, he saw Mr. McKinley drink four kinds of wine. During * meeting of the missionary committee held In Washington, November, 1899. the bishops being present. Bishop Walden called on the president and asked him a# to the facts in the cast- referred to by Mr. Dickie. Mr. McKinley frankly replied that it had la-en his custom at banquets not to turn bis glasses down, but to leave them to be filled by the waiters the same as the glasses of other guests. But Knee he became president, and for many years previously, he had not drank wine at banquets and similar occasions; but he would call for a glass of apollinaris. water, as that was Ids favorite drink on those occasions: that he did not drink the wine at the Chicago banquet as charged.

A Pure, Christian? Statesman. “Bishop Walden related this conversation to the other bishops and at a reception given to the committee by President McKinley at the white house the bishops heartily concurred In the commendatory resolutions passyed by the committee, which spoke of Mr. McKinley as a ‘pure Christian statesman of whom the church and the, nation might well feel proud.’ At ti.e general conference in May. 1900. Mr. Dickie was chairman of the committee on temperance, ami. undoubtedly chagrined that the bishops and great majority of Methodist preachers and laymen had perfect confidence In President McKinley’s'word, evidently' determined to use the general conference to humiliate the president before his own church and. the nation. His report, which he succeeded in pushing through the committee, censured the president in sever® and bitter terms. When presented to the general conference by Mr. Dickie it produced a decided sensation, especially that part of the report which held the president responsible for the opinion of Attorney General Griggs relative to the canteen and for the sale of intoxicating liquors in the Philippine islands. Dr. ,T. E. .Price presented & minority report, temperately phrased, omitting all censure of President McKinley. This brought rhe issue squarely before the general conference and gave rise to the most exciting debate. Hon Charles B. Lore of Delaware, conceded to be one of the ablest laymen in the general conference, said:

A PoHti-al Opponent's Tribute. “Nothings but an Imperative sense of duty compels me to speak. I am j heartily and earnestly in favor of the Adoption of the minority report for two reason.- The first is. the major- I Ity report is historically inaccurate, and for this reason: President Me- : Kinley is blamed in that report for practically nullifying the laws of the UrKed States. Did you go back and attack congress because it saw fit to adopt a law which Is susceptible of two interpretations? And the interpretation of Attorney General Griggs fs recognized by some of the ablost legal minds throughout the United States as the only legal Interpretation of the law. Have you passed censure npon congress? No. You praise it. Again, you say that Hon. John Long Is worthy of praise because he Abolished liquor from the navy. Do you know that that is the act of William McKinley 7 through John D. Long? And, on the other hand, do you lay your hands upon the president who has given, In his judgment, a correct opinion? Here you have divided yourselves and cannot stand. Again let me say to you, I served four years with Wiliam McKinley' in the Fortyeighth and Forty-ninth congresses. I was politically opposed to him. I am not in favor of bls policy today—if you will allow n judge to have an opinion —ln many respects. Lint I stood boside that man four years and I learned to love hls elemental rjinhood. lie was brought up tn a Methodist atmosphere and taught by a good old Meth<Mlist mottxcr. Ho stood b< fore me ntypical man. He said to me por«g>rAtty, Phgn his seat was contested in Uousd of representatives, ‘lf you

cannot vote for me, honestly believing that I was clewed fully and fairly, do not do it. I will go home to my constituents again.’ I watched his life, as he moved up and down in those halls. I found in Washington congressmen in fiie saloons and in worse places. I have heard of them being there. I will not say I saw them there.. That would not be fair. I watched Mr. McKinley's course up and down. Let me tell you that Mr. McKinley, when not at his duty in the halls of congress or in the committee room, was with his invalid wife and did Ills work in her presence and under her inspiration. He was one of the purest and best men in the Fortyeighth and Forty-ninth congresses And while I differ from him, I am unwilling to see this gfeat Methodist conference strike down one of the most loyal men within her borders.’ Defeat of the Attack. . “Similar strong, ,manly, noble words ..were spoken by other delegates, and when the vote came to be taken Mr. i Dickie had the pleasure f.T of seeing that his attack upon fhe.prcsideht had proven a booimwang and that portion ' of his report-criticising Mr. McKinley entirely stricken out ami the general I conference <:ved from being m:ide<the ■agent to s w the sinister designs of ' unfair ami unscrupulous partisanship. ! President McKinley is not only stronger in The Methodist church, but in all the churches, than ever before. Men of all shades of religious and political : opinion admire him for his purity of ■ life and for his careful, conservative > administration of the duties of his great office. Considering all the diffiI cult problems he has had to deal with, rdomestic and 'foreign, he liaa shown ■ himself so wise, so self-poised, so fair ■ to all legitimate interests, so strictly : impartial in the conduct of public as- ! fairs, that the people of every section i of the country, north, south, east and west, speak of him as ‘Our President.’ ; That he will be re-elected by a much larger majority than in the election of 1896 is the wish, the prayer, and the patriotic purpose of every citizen who believes in the progress, the stability, the safety and ever expanding glory of the American republic.”

CHICAGO AMERICAN

What Its Owner Said Two Years Ago on Expansion. William 11. Hearst, the syndicate owner of the San Francisco Ex:11;. iner. th e New York Journal and the Chicago American. arid who is now the proprietor of the newspapers most anL-titly supporting Mr. Bryau’s election, rCeognized at least that in ti;e west expansion was and is a popular doctrine. In the San Franeisjp publication, over liis own signature, there appeared this paragraph' oil Nov. bi is'.j.s. “The vote of tills election is a vote of approval f>>r the war and the principle of expansion. It is both right and reasonable that the administration which, despite some mistakes, carried this glorious war u> a successful conclusion should receive a vote . of. confidence. It is both right and reasonable that the policy of expansion, ever the policy of the American people since Jefferson annexed the T.ouisianas. should receive the ap- . proval of the American voters, Republican and Democratic.”

THEN AND NOW

Mr. Bryan's Attempt to Ring In a Dinner Pail Change. Going back for a moment to Mr. Bryan's recent St. Louis speech he is found to have said: "Republicans assert that the work ingmau has a full dinner pail. 1 ask, in the first place, whether a full dinner pail is all that a laboring may needs? it is an insult to the say that his thoughts'are entirely (filtered upon his_ physical wants. Republican speakers and editors assume that the laboring man is all stomach. They act upon the theory that he complains only when he is hungry ami is happy whenever his hunger is appeased.’’ But four years ago many thousands heard Mr. Bryan declare, and ring the changes on the statement, that the workingman’s dinner table touched the heart of the whole question of prosperity and adversity. “The workingman wants no sophistries, no abstruse arguments,’’ was his doctrine then. “What he does understand is his daily bread and the dally bread for his wife and little ones. Give him a chance to earn it.” Has the Mr. Bryan of 1900 shed the skin he wore in 1890,,0r has he only painted out the spots?

The Travelers and Politics.

Following is an extract frqm a letter from a traveling man in Kansas:“ln this territory m'y observation is, the great bulk of the traveling men who howl for Bryan are the class that travel in bunches, make towns on freight trains principally, stop (briefly) at hotels near the track, ami are too busy traveling to take an order, except from an officer. or do any work except make the next town."

Private Confessions.

' Those Democrats who declare In private that silver Is a dead issue confess that the Democratic platform is a drceptign.

Bryan’s Dollar.

The dollar that Mr. Bryan puts the man before is a 48 cent fiat, which in Itself depreciates the man by half.

THE "CREDITOR CLASS"

A Gross Perversion upon Which Mr. Bryan Bases an Assault. 1 1 ■ - The silver orators from Bryan down are never tired of reiterating that the gold standard is established solely in the interest of the creditor class, who want whatever is due them paid in the best and highest kind of money. They assume that the debtor cldss is the poor who owe money and that the creditor class is the rich to whom money is always due. On this ground , they endeavor to fomemt hatred and bitterness among the poor against the rich and to array class against class and employe against employer. To stir up such jealousies and hatreds opens the road to anarchy, and anarchy leads to the destruction of government.

But it is not true that the poor are the debtor class and the rich the creditor class. As a matter of fact the great majority of pi-ople belong to both classes, having money coming to them from one direction and having to pay it out in another. It is therefore difficult to draw any hard and fast line to separate the debtors from the creditors. Hut if there is a creditor class iu this country, a set of people to whom that designation is peculiarly applicable, it is not composed of the men wlw handle large sums of money ttitd who are engaged in carrying oil great enterprises. They for the most part are debtors. The real creditor class is composed of working men and women, of eiuidoyes in walk of business, of salaried people and of depositors in tianks. especially dej>ositors iu savings Ixinks. These are tlie men and women to whom mopey is always due and who are entitled.if anylsxly in all the world is to the l>est and most S'taitie money that can lie devised. A fluctuating money, varying In value from time to time, is to tliein a con'demtiation of poverty and loss. A workingman, no matter what his labor may be, who starts to work on Monday morning is a creditor at nightfall tor the amount of bls ' day’s wages, and at the end of the week lie is fi creditor for six days' pay. Wlieth-

er a man works by the day, by the week, by the month or by file year, lie is always a creditor, for he must give his services first. . But alhove all it is the savings Lank depositor who is the chief of creditors and who in laying by his money for “ii rainy day” sliould' when lie i'ltnes to draw it out. have have just as g(«rd money paid as lie dei»osited. To tls-sv cnslitors who are saving' day by day their laird earned wages ami sajuries Bryauism and b> to 1 would lie disaster, ruin and despair. The general prosperity of the fanners in nil paris of the country, north, south, east, and west, resulting from good crops unci good prices is a legitimate votoninker for the Republican party. . The Lord gave the good crops ami the Republicans gave the good markets, and no amount of , political misrepresentation can deprive either-of the credit due. The South Should Begin to Think, j AViiy the south should want a eliange fnnn the present conditions is beyond the power of reason to ferret out. ■ Every southern statertvhich gives its electoral vote to Bryan will do so be- ' cause prejudice tftid tradition rule ■ rather than reason or a consideration J of the best Interests either of the south or of the country as a whole. There never nas Iteen before in this country in - in rhe world such prosperity as exists in the United States today. AW the south is getting its fullt share oj this prosperity. Of the 307 new texj tile mills which were reported by the American Wool and Cotton Reporter

as having-been begun to be constructed during the first six months of 1900 202 are in the south, of which 57 are in North Carolina. 50 in South Carolina and" 42 in Georgia. Every vote for Bryan and free trade means a vote to put an end to mill construction in the south and to shut down most of the mills now open. It is time that the voter's of the south began their bajl<>ts...for jjieir own interests and for the interest of their section of their country instead of voting in deference to the prejudices of a past generation, prejudices, too. which were -based on conditions winch no longer exist. The efforts to introduce foreign Issues into the campaign have come exclusively from the Democrats. The Republican platform appeals directly to the American voter and his welfare and doesn’t evade a single issue.

Must Be Thrashed Into Decency.

Maryland is a close state, and it is especially significant therefore that its goiu Democrats and independents are swinging once more into line for President McKinley as they did in 1896. Mr. Charles J. Bonaparte of Baltimore, one of their leaders, declares that he will vote for McKinley and Roosevelt because Bryan's candidacy Is “a menace to American Institutions and American credit.” Of the Democratic party he says, "It must be thrashed into decency and common sense if it is to be once more a party worthy of power, am] tile more thorough and unmls(al;able,thc thras! Ing the better for it ami tl.c better for the country.” Such tall; as this from t ne of the Maryland indepcmicnts forecasts another victory like . whh h l.r< ke Boss Gorman’s grip fmr year;- Boston Journal. It Is m t necessary to abuse the Dem >cratle lenders in this campaign. They regard the liberal employment of quotation marks as the very worst form of chastisement. I

GENUINE RECIPROCITY

That Which Does Not Sacrifice the Principle of Protection. No plank in the Republican platform will more strongly commend itself to the voters than the reference to reciprocity, which is in the following language: I “We favor the policy of reciprocity, so directed ae to open our markets on favorable terms for what we do not ourselves produce in return for free foreign markets.” I That doctrine will be indorsed by every protectionist. It is the interpretation of “reciprocity” which we long have sought and mourned because we found it not. It definitely excludes such travesties of reciprocity as the French, Argentine, Portuguese and other treaties in which some American Interests have been compelled to suffer injury in order that others might profit. In the absence of an explicit definition of reciprocity in previous Republican platforms it has been possible under the_ guise of “reciprocity” to negotiate treaties of this kind which were ill-advised, unjust and destructive of the principle of protection. The Chronicle vigorously opposed all of them and regretted that some stalwart Republicans and protectionists were inveigled into giving them approval. There will be no more of them. The Republican party DOW stands committed to sacrifice no American interest for the sake of promoting foreign trade. That will precisely suit the fruit growers and wool “growers of California, who have usually been selected as victims when sacrifices were to be offered. But while local interests may to some extent have spurred The Chronicle to its efforts to defeat proposed treaties the main ground of its opposition has been that they violated the principle of protection, which? is the chief bulwark of Republican doctrine and the safety of all of us. The intent of the- Republican party in regard to reciprocity matters is now stated in unequivocal terms, and no American interest need fear while that party is in power. It is a happy ending to a controversy which has been annoying and will solidfy the party in this state and elsewhere.—San Francisco Chronicle.

The wool growers and sheep raisers have iteen beuefitted to an unparalleled degree by the return of a protective tariff. During a Democratic administration and the Wilson tariff medium wool sold for 18 cents per pound in 1896. During McKinley and a protective tariff medium wool sold in J. 899 for 31 cents per pound. In short, the wool producers almost doubled the price of their wool under a protective tariff. Posters “<>” and “H.” Two remarkably effective campaign posters tire ready for distribution by the American Protective Tariff league. They are entitled respectively “Poster G” and “Poster H.” “Poster G” embodies the splendid prosperity figures of “Uncle Sam’s balance sheet” revised and corrected so as to include tlih official statistics of the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900. “Poster II” is a pTctiiresque illustration of “That Terrible Eclipse” of 1893-6 and the restoration of the unobscured sunlight of prosperity, 1897-1900. Taken together, “Uncle Sana’s balance sheet” (“Poster G") and “That Terrible Eclipse (“Poster H”) present with extraordinary distinctness the contrast of conditions as they existed under Democratic free trade in 1896 and under Republican protection in 1900. These posters can be seen very generally in the headquarters of local Republican committees, or they will be mailed to any address for 8 cents. Address, Ameincan Protective Tariff league, 135 West Twenty-third street, New York. Under, the present administration the United States is sending coal to Newcastle,’ cottons to Manchester, iron to Russia and. machinery to all the world. The Democrats promise to stop this business when they get into poxver.

Trying to Fool the People.

The Democratic apology for free silver is that it is way down toward the tail of the platform-, as though that were evidence that they did not mean it. If they do not mean it, they are trying to fool the country with a falsehood, knowing it to be such. If they do mean it, in the event of securing a Democratic house and Bryan’s election they will not delay in commencing to tinker with the tariff and trifle with the financial policy of the government. “The gold standard,’’ declared Mr. Bryan in his Minnesota speech in 1896, “would destroy the opportunity to work. Is Mr. Bryan depending upon the votes of the idle this year?

Honest at Least.

The Democratic Memphis Commer-cial-Appeal admits . that Mr. Bryan means 16 to 1 and has no patience with those Democrats who are trying to ignore the issue and take up the cry of “imperialism.” The Commercial-Ap-peal is not overenthusiastic for the Kansas City ticket, but it prefers to be honest with its readers no matter how distasteful the task may be. "lie voted for Bryan in 1896,” is becoming quite a common form of introduction for the speakers at the Republican meetings in Kansas this year.

Trying to Hide Silver.

The Democratic lead- rs are striving very bard to obscure the principal plank of the Kansas City platform—the plank Mr. Bryan forced into the platform over their protest.

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