Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1900 — Page 8
OUT FOR M’KINLEY
Some Notable Accessions to Republican Ranks. ' WHAT THE CONVERTS SAY fi-President of the World’s Fair Makes a Strong Statement. Bryanism Attacked as the Personification of 16 to 1, Lawlessness and Imperialism— John T. Strange of Indiana* Makes Clear Presentation of Preference For Country Over Party—McKinley Tried and Not Found Wanting—Green Glass Worker Hayes Converted. William I. Baker, ex-president of the Chicago board of trade, and of the world’s fair, and one of the leading Democrats of Chicago, has made an open statement of his purpose to vote -few* McKinley this fall. In a letter he pakes a powerful attack against Bryan, whom he says personifies 16 to 1 and lawlessness and is the greatest “Imperialist” since Napoleon Bonaparte. Mr. Baker has been well known in the past for his convictions in favor of free trade and for his aggressive interest in the work of the National Tariff Reform league. Mr. Baker says, however, that even the Democratic doctrine of free trade has been abandoned for principles that mean restriction of trade, and, through the Populistic attitude on “trusts,” a “limitation of all successful enterprise within state lines.” The letter follows: "Hon. M. A. Hanna, Chairman Republican National Committee: “My Dear Sir—The Democratic -organization has passed under the control of public enemies, and no man who holds to the traditional doctrines of the party is under the slightest obligation to follow the present leaders. The policies that guided the party from Jefferson to Cleveland have been sidetracked for the isms of Populists and anarchists. Even free trade has given way to Bryan’s promise that he will ‘recommend such additional legislation as may be necessary to dissolve every private monopoly which does business outside of the state of its origin.’ This would mean, under Populist interpretation and control. the limitation of all successful enterprise within state lines; not a captivating programme to suggest at the moment when American commerce Is being pushed beyond the seas. The Democratic crusade against expansion. termed ‘imperialism,’ is an absolute sham', a. silly and hypocritical invention to divert attention from their revolutionary purposes. Expansion has been the policy and practice of the •American people since the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, and no man who understands the real spirit of our Institutions can be frightened by the phantom of Imperialism which Bryan has conjured up for this campaignonly. Since Napoleon Bonaparte, there has been no greater imperialist than Bryan himself. His will is the law of the party that supports him, and. if elected, he would endeavor to rule the entire nation with the same Iron hand. Napoleon deluged Europe in blood to reach a throne, and Bryan would not hesitate to wreck every industry in the land to attain the presidency. This talk of imperialism is like the rattle of the snake that hurts nobody. It is the head of the reptile that is’dangerous, and there you will find the free silver bite. The paramount issue is exactly the same now that it was in 1896. It is 16 to 1 and lawlessness, as personified by Bryan, versus the gold standard and the security it brings. I shall vote for McKinley as representing the latter. “WILLIAM T. BAKER.”
PARTY OR COUNTRY?
John Strange, Former Democrat, Decides to Support Latter. John T. Strange, an attorney and a lifelong Democrat, who has been the leader of Democracy In Grant county, Indiana, for years, sent a letter to Robert Houston, the chairman of the Democratic county committee, last week, announcing that he had resolved to support the present administration and could not support Bryan. Mr. Strange has been honored by the Democratic party by the nomination for circuit judge, state representative, chairman of the county Democratic committee, delegate to the state convention and delegate to the national convention. The following is the letter: “My Dear Sir—lt seems to me to be only right that I should make known to you, as chairman of the Democratic committee of Grant county, Ind., the •tand 1 have deliberately taken in the present campaign. I assure you that It is no easy task for me to break away from the political ties of my birth, and from the friendships thus formed during my life. However sacred these ties and friendships may be, and however strong former political affiliations may have been, when the supreme question arises, Shall I stand by my party of my country? then I know of no higher duty than to stand by my country first and by the flag wherever ft waves. I can arrive at no other conclusion upon the issue formed in this campaign than that my plain duty Is to stand by the administration. It has ifceen tried and found capable to deal wisely, justly and ably with all the «ew and grave problems with which ft had to contend, J?oth at home and abroad. It has steadfastly maintained faonoy of our flag at home, upon
the seas and in foreign and hostile lands. To support It is to pursue a wise and safe course upon the living and pending questions. To oppose it is to invite sectional discord and to disturb the present satisfactory conditions and business relations of the country. In my opinion the administration is deserving of the continued confidence of the American people and should not be turned down. It is not good to ‘swap horses’ and risk a new and untried one. The president has proved himself to be a wise, safe Und conservative executive in times of peace; a cool, courageous, brave and patriotic leader in times of war. He combines the elements of citizen, soldier, statesman and patriot, together with a trained mind in statecraft, a clear judgment, an honest heart and a pure purpose. To trust such a man with the guidance of the ‘old ship of state’ four years more will be no experiment. Believing that it is for the best interests ofthe country and the general welfare of the people under the present conditions. I am in favor as the administration and will vote for Its continuance. Yours most respectfully, - “JOHN T. STRANGE,” Glass Worker Convert. Dennis' A. Hayes, president of the Green Glass Workers' International association, headquarters at Philadelphia, while in Muncie last week, astonished his former Democratic associates by remarking that while he took no part in politics, he felt it his duty this year to vote for McKinley because of the improved industrial conditions. Mr. Hayes also favors expansion.
GRAVEYARD ISSUES
Quotation From One of Webster Davis’ Addresses. Webster Davis has been sent into Indiana to make speeches for Bryanism. Davis is disposed to be sensational in politics, as is well illustrated in the fact of his having shot holes through his own hat, possibly to facilitate talk through the orifices. Davis has said a good many things on political topics, but a conspicuous quotation is from a speech delivered in Kansas City in October, 1898, when he was the principal speaker before a Republican gathering, with whi?h party he was affiliated until disappointed in his personal ambition. It was then he said: “Listen. my Democratic friends and neighbors—for 1 have friends and neighbors in this city, which is my home - listen to-what I am about to say: WHEN THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ANTAGONIZES AND ATTACKS *THE , ADMINISTRATION OF PRES- ' IDENT M’KINLEY UPON ITS POLICY IN CUBA, PORTO RICO AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY IS CAMPING IN THE GRAVEYARD OF DEAD ISSUES.” Davis may well be confronted with his own commendation of the administration. This utterance is sufficient to discredit anything he may say in contradition on the issues before the people at the preset time.
Full Dinner Pail Not an Insult.
W. J. Bryan says it is an Insult to the workingmen to talk about a full dinner pail. I am a workingman and carry my dinner pail. I wish to inform the honorable gentleman that I am not insulted when my dinner pail is full; neither am I insulted when I have work every day to fill my dinner pail, as we have under Republican rule. I think It is far better than to have to go to a free souphouse and depend on the charities of the people. So we will allow Senator Hanna to continue to advocate the full dinner pail and not feel the least insulted. It no floubt does insult the calamity howler who wants office so bad and who would sacrifice the workingman’s full dinner pail for 16 to 1. W. J. S. Bluffton, Ind., Sept. 19.
Political Dialectics.
In his political dialectics Mr. Schura has generally managed to keep himself on the exasperating side and operative as a gadfly on the flank of the cause lie for the time being pretends to champion. As he is now in the Bryan camp he will at once begin to make it lively and uncomfortable for his new allies as he has generally done for his old ones.
Who Has the Show.
A little boy asked the other day what was the difference between the Democratic party and Buffalo Bill. The Interrogated replying that he did not know, the little boy said: “Buffalo Bill has a show,” and there was a laugh.
The Apostle of Calamity.
There is just one politician in this country who can look upon the great miners’ strike in Pennsylvania and its consequent distress with any degree of satisfaction. Name him!
Everybody’s Busy.
The candidate who wants to get the crowd in Kansas this year will speak in the evening. Too many people are busily at work to make afternoon meetings a success.
Mr. Bryan the Party.
It is enough for Mr. Bryan to say ; that the Democratic party has not changed on the sliver issue since 1896. Me. Bryan is the party.
REPUBLICANS PROPOSE TO KEEP THE MILLS OPEN
FIRST—By Maintaining the Gold Standard. SECOND>**By Maintaining Broadest, Markets. Ask opponents how they propose tp keep the mills going with free silver and their policy of abandoning our island possessions.
MAN ABOVE THE DOLLAR
Condition Which Makes the Working* man’s Bulwark of Independence. Mr. Bryan is daily holding up to contempt the idea that “a full dinner pail” is the paramount issue, and denounces the efforts of McKinley to establish conditions that provide opportunity to earn three meals a day as putting “the dollar above the man.” But every thinking man, and especially every leader of organized labor, knows thaF the first essential to the development of the higher nature of the masses Is that they be well fed. well clothed and thrifty. The leaders of labor order strikes in order that the wage w’orker may earn enough to relieve themselves from all anxiety about the essentials of comfortable daily living. And when these are secured they begin to agitate for a shorter day—not a short-value dollar—ih\ order that a well fed and well clothed people may have physical strength after the day’s labor, to nourish a desire for education and development of the mental and moral life. The leaders of organized labor know that when a man is ground down, is hungry, destitute and grieved at the daily sight of pinched; wan faces at home, then the dollar is above the man, and his condition shows it is out of his reach. But give the country legislation which loosens money for investment so freely that the interest rate drops to the low point of today—which opens the mills instead of the mints—which starts car wheels and keeps retail merchants busy, and We have conditions which put the man above the dollar. Then he has a chance at more than one job. If his foreman mistreats him or his Incorporated employer seeks to cut his wages, or overworks him, then he may quit, with the certainty that he can get something else to do. This situation is the bulwark of his independence. Above all men, the wage earner is vitally interested in two things: first, the fullest possible demand for his labor, and, second, the steadiest, most reliable value of the dollar he earns. He lias troubles enough, as all have, irrespoeiive of their wealth, without having to worry as to whether liis money is sound or not and .will purchase as much for himself and loved ones on the morrow as well as on the day the dollars were earned. His independence is assured and grows stronger*hs long as there are two jobs hunting him, for that throws the burden of competition upon the jobs, and he benefits. The jobs bid for his labor and his wages go up. But let two men begin to bid against each other for one job, and the burden of competition is on the men. The job goes to the lowest bidder. The dollar is above the man again. And this is the condition that Bryanism -would bring. The great apostle of cheap money rested his fame on his free trade speeches in congress prior to his nomination at Chicago. He is no less a free trader than he is for free silver. He helped frame the Wilson bill, being a member of the ways and means committee, which was stigmatized by Cleveland as “party perfidy and party dishonor,” and which every leader knows earned this stigma in the minds of the American people by spreading want and privation. With Bryan as president we would have not only a cheating, half-value dollar, but another Wilson tariff bill. With such agents of disaster, credit would disappear, business would stop, mills would close, investments cease, and industry would bear the burden of blight. The dollar would be above the man, and far beyond his reach. Let wives, who must be the chief sufferers, counsel their Bryanite husbands and sons on j the situation. To the women of the land the full dinner pail has no hallo- , cination, as Mr. Bryan teaches. McKinley is the apostle of comfortable 1 homes and a margin between earnings and the fixed charges of daily living, | Bryan’s theories will make both impossible, and the prosperity all are now enjoying a mere memory.
Campaign Story.
A Democrat asked a friend how he was going to vote this year. “Why,” answered the friend, “for Bryan, of course. Why, they told me four years ago that if 1 voted for Bryan we would have good times for four years, and haven’t we had it?’
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APPEAL FOR VOTES
The Strongest Is That Which Com* pares ’96 With Now. “I don’t know of any stronger appeal that caii be made for Republican votes than a recital of the last four years as compared with the previous four years. Boiled down the issues are McKlnleyism and Bryanism. Boiled down it it free silver aiid free trade on one side and prosperity and development on the other. Out west the argument s os imperialism is played out, Mr. IJryan won’t talk of free silver in the Empire state unless you force him to, and I want you to force him to. Now, my friends, this is a business proposition. It is whether or ngt the people of tii is country are going to undermine the very basis of our prosperity. It is a business proposition in which every man who conducts the commerce of our country and every man who works with his hands is interested. ' Everything depends on confidence in the future. The success and development of the country depend upon the confidence of men who have capital. We have established ourselves so, now, that this country is producing from a quarter to a third more than our consumption. Let us shake confidence and our industries wilLslow down like they were previous to four years ago. The men who work in the industries will have to take chances with those who. manage them, i say this is a business proposition, and now in casting your vote next November, the responsibility is In your hands to say which you will have continued prosperty or go back to the empty dinner pail”—Extract from speech by Senator Hanna.
MONEY STANDARD
Attitudes of Parties .Defined With the Utmost Clearness. The money standard is an issue between the two parties, defined with the utmost clearness. The Republican party stands by declaration and action | squarely ou the gold standard. The ; Democratic party stands, by rei peated ’ specific declaration, for the 1 free coinage of silver at 16 to 1. ’ We ■ have been operating for more than ,20 years on the gold, standard. A change would mean a violent readjustment, a shock to business that would cause very much more widespread distress than the closing of certain mills by trusts, bad and distressing though the results of the closing policy are. And would there be a change in case of Bryan’s election? Unquestionably there would. The maintenance of the parity with gold of the great silver circulation we are carrying ‘n our currency 1 still rests with the secretary of the treasury. Rob our millions of silver dollar coins of half their purchasing power and there would be a smash. Let the Democratic party carry the elections of 1900 and 1902 and it would be in a position to repeal the gold standard law and throw all our government obligations, Including most of our paper money, on a silver basis. Here would be another smash.
American Loans Abroad.
The following facts are substantiation of the only correct prophecy Mr. Bryan ever made. He once said we were going to quit borrowing money in Europe. He was not wholly correct, for he thought it was to be accomplished with the making, of cheap money. Experience develops that he could have gone farther, for now we are loaning money. Here are some of the big loans made this year: Feb. 28, Russian trans-Siberian loan, $30,000,000. March 9, British consul loans, $lO,000,000. March 16, loan to Bank of France, $15,000,000. •Tune 3. Mexican refunding loan, $115,000,000. Aug. 4, British exchequer loan, $28,000.000. Sept. 14. German loan, $20,000,000. total, $218,000,000.
Mainspring of the Insurrection.
General Funston writes from the Philippines that he has secured a fresh batch of documents from Aguinaido urging the Tagals to bold out until Bryan is elected. Bryan and his platforffi are the mainspring of what remains of the insurrection.
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MK NOTICE. STATE OK INDI ANA I 8 8 JASPKB COUNTY f In the Jasper Circuit Court, November Term, 1900. Cause No 6009 William C. Kirk vs j Jes-eH. Fordice and Susan M. Fordice his wife: Susan M. Fordice widow of Jesse H. Fordice; Anderson the unknown husband of Paulina Anderson; Edward > j, Kirk and Mrs, .Kirk, his wife, Mrs. Kirk widow of Edward »J, Kirk, deceased: Mattie J. iPenwrlght and John Penwrlght her husband, Bertha B. Kirk; Jennie B, Kirk, deceased. All of the unknown adult and minor heirs,' de viseesand legatees of any and all of the above named defendants, deceased; All of the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees, of ait the unknown heirs, devisees and legatees, er any and all of the above named defendants. tomes now the plaintiff in the above entitled cause and tiles bls complaint herein, J 0 E«tner with an affidavit showing that the defendants are believed to be non-residents of the state oi Indiana. Now. therefore, the said defendants are hereby notified that unless they be an a a - pear on the 21st day of the November term or the Jasper Circuit Court, to be “olden on tn second Monday of November. A. H. < their absence. . In witness I hereunto /£■ — IIIV hand and affix the seal of fSHAI.) October. A. I>. IW IO - JOHN F. MAJOR, O. K Mills, 01erk ' Atty for piss. Oct. MJ 19. • Jt i
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