Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — Page 4

SOME MORE DEMOCRATS, POPULISTS AND SILVER

EX-SECRETARY CARLISLE WILL SUPPORT McKINLEY

Hon. John Q. Carlisle, formerly Speaker of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Treasury under President Cleveland, has accepted the Presidency of a Sound Money Club in New York and will assist in the re-election of President McKinley. Mr. Carlisle’s reasons are covered by two utterances made in a speech at Chicago four years ago. They still hold good. He said :

“The greatest crime, short of absolute political enslavement, that could be committed against the workingman in this country would be to confiscate his labor for the benefit of the employer by destroying the value of the money in which his wages are paid. But, gentlemen, this irreparable wrong can never be perpetrated under our system of government, unless the laboring man himself assists in forging his own chains.” Hon. John G. Carlisle, Democrat. ExSecretary of the Treasury, Chicago, April 15, 1896.

WILLIAM HINTZ AND HIS EXPERIENCE WITH SHEEP

William Hintz, one of the best known German farmers in Hancock County. Ohio, gives this reason for his conversion from Brvanism: “i used to be a Democrat, and 1 was one until I found that by voting the Democratic ticket I . was voting against my sheep. I had a bis flock of sheep on -my farm. The Democratic party in 1892 initiated free trade and took the duty off wool. The price fell to 11 cents. It .made me think. T studied the question hard and conscientiously, and from all sides. I looked at it in an unbiased manner. What was good for me certainly must be good for my neighbor, and he must also suffer with me. If the price of my wool depreciated, the cost of clothes might be less, but I would have no money to buy them. I studied the matter carefully, and came to the

MORE NEBRASKANS LEAVE BRYAN'S STANDARD

Dr. J. T. Emigh, Red Cloud. William Kent, Sr., retired farmer. Red Cloud. J. S. Dyer, stock buyer, Red Cloud. Ed. Dyer, stock buyer, Red Cloud. Geo. Blair, merchant, Red Cloud. Joe Blair, clerk. Red Cloud. Bert Blair, clerk. Red Cloud. Paul Storey, clerk. Red Cloud. Hub. Henry, farmer. Red Cloud. M. R. Bentlev, capitalist. Red Cloud. Thos. Penman, merchant, Red Cloud. Geo. Lindsey, farmer (cattle), Red Cloud. Sam Kizer, carpenter. Red Cloud. Will Kizer, carpenter, Red Cloud. Clarence Kizer, carpenter, Red Cloud. Jim Brown, carpenter, Red Cloud. Henry Brown, carpenter, Red Cloud J. S. Geeliam. attorney, Red Cloud. Henry Geeham, farmer, Red Cloud E. McFarland, merchant, Red Cloud. Frank Cowden, merchant, Red Cloud C. M. Storey, liveryman, Cowles. H. Burgess, merchant. Blue Hill, was Populist candidate for county treasurer three years ago. Andrew Guy. farmer, Guide Rock, German. Henry Guy, farmer, Guide Rock, German. Geo. Guy, farmer, Guide Rock, German. Dr. Bradshaw, Guide Rock. A. S. Proudfit, lumber merchant. Guide Rock. Ohmsteads (three of them). Guide Rock, Germans. Charles Amaek, farmer, Red Cloud. Evans A mack, farmer, Red Cloud. J. S. Emigh, farmer, Cowles.

E J. W. Hunter, Abingdon, 111., Collector i of Internal Revenue in the Peoria dis- j trict under President Cleveland. Was party nominee for Congress eight years ago. Frank Sweeney. New Albany. Ind.. formerly city engineer. Organized a .McKinley and Roosevelt club John N. Penrod, Wabash. Ind., one of the most prominent lumber men in j the state. Voted for Palmer and Buckner four years ago. Believes Bryan’s j attitude on the money Question is a menace to the material interests of! ■every citizen. Oliver A. Allard. Metropolis 111. a Jlfe-long Democrat and owner of the largest farm in Massac county containing 1.800 acres opposite Paducah. has. never before cast a Republican vote. Prosperity. Ex-Governor Charles 1. Overran of Richmond, Va states that there will be twice as many business men in Richmond this year who will support McKinley as there were in 1896., He will not support Bryan, but will vote for McKinley and has always heretofore been a Democrat. Frank T. Glascow, superintendent of *the Tredegar Iron Company, , Richmond, Va., the largest iron manufacturing plant in the state, will this yeai vote for McKinley. Major Clay Drewry of the firm of Drewry Hughes & Co., Richmond, Va., one of the largest dry goods firms in the state, who voted for Bryan in 1896. will this year vote for McKinley. Mr J F. George of Richmond, Va. one of the largest dealers in leaf to-.-bacco, who voted for Bryan In 1896. Will vote for McKinley this year. WUllam R- Trigg, president of the W. R Trigg company, a very large shipbuilding plant that has-opened up tn Richmond, Va., will this year vote for McKinley. Hl* works give employment to nearly 1,000 operatives. He has heretofore always been a Demo-

‘‘No man who has a particle of sympathy for working men and women, and their dependent families, can contemplate the possibility of such a calamity (free coinage of silver) without feeling that it is his duty, whether Jie occupies a public or private station, to employ every honorable means at his command to avert it.” Hon. John G. Carlisle, Democrat, ExSecretary Treasury, Chicago, April 15, 1896.

conclusion that I might just as well kill my sheep as vote the Democraty ic ticket. Then <ame the fry of free silver. In my life I have found that it.is wise to,follow.successful men. Therefore if a man is a moneymaker. why not watch him and try the same methods your. I found that the men of the c —.ory whohad money were against free silver. I asked myself why, and concluded free silver would he bail for my sheep. .1 voted for ,McKinley and the Republican platform and havedone so ever since. I shall- support the Republican ticket this year. I am no longer a Democrat but a Republican. The Democratic platform shifts its planks too often to suit me. I am satisfied with the present state of affairs, and so are my sheep.”

M. Sterne, merchant, Red Cloud. H. Deidrick, merchant, Red Cloud. Walt Elliott, shoemaker, Red Cloud. John McCord, farmer, Guide Rock. Harry McCord, farmer, Guide Rock. Harvey Perry, plasterer. Red Cloud. Nibs Perry, plasterer, Red Cloud. Vance McCall, farmer, lmarah. James Vance, farmer. lmarah. Lawrence McCall, farmer, Red Cloud. Floyd McCall, farmer. Red Cloud. Thos. Emigh. farmer. Red Cloud. W. S. Bense. merchant, Red Cloud. W. Bense, merchant, Red Cloud. A. Cook, retired merchant, Red Cloud. O. C. Case, attorney, Red Cloud. Charles Davis, farmer, Red Cloud. F. Sadelick, farmer. Red Cloud. Joe Sadelick, farmer, Red Cloud. Charles J. Platt, merchant. Red Cloud. C. G. Seder, Deloit township, Holt Co., Neb.: “I am for the straight Republican ticket this year. McKinley times are good enough for me and I want to have more good times. I was Populist committeeman of Deloit township long enough to find out that the Populist party is not a party of reform, and I can’t see how any thinking man can support Bryan again after seeing the prosperous condition of the country and seeing how Bryan’s predictions have turned out. A large number of my neighbors who supported Bryan four years ago are, like myself, disgusted with the talk about imperialism, trusts, etc., and will this time cast their votes with the party that a ays gives us good government and good prices for our products. lam for the straight Republican ticket.”

Virginius Newton, president of the First National bank, Richmond, Va., who voted for Palmer and Buckner in 1896, will not vote for Bryan this year and says that he considers him the most dangerous man in America today. Colonel John B. Purcell of the wholesale drug firm of Purcell, Ladd & Co., Richmond, Va., voted for Palmer and Buckner in 1896, but will not vote for Bryan this year. R. E. Richardson, Talleysville, Va., one of the largest timber operators In j Virginia as well as a merchant operat- ; ing five stores, who would not vote at all in 1896, will vote for McKinley this j year and states as his reason that he 1 Is satisfied for business to remain as ! it is. Roger Gregory, Jr.,Democratic chairj man of King William county, Va.. in 1896 and a large planter, has announced his intention of voting for McKinley this year. One of the oldest Democrats in West Virginia, Mr. John B. Darnall of Alderson, Monroe county, has come out for McKinley in a letter in which he says that he is 82 years old and has voted with the Democrats for more than 50 years, but now feels compelled to become identified with the party that has brought such prosperity to his state by the operation of its principles of sound money and protective tariff. James Brittingham of Mount Vernon, N. V. General Charles F. Smyth of Chicago, formerly on Governor S. J. Tilden’s staff In New York. Arthur A. Taylor, Santa Cruz, Cal. Jacob Keene, prominent attorney, Athena, Mich. . Franklin Bartlett, New York. Favors sound money. Francis L. Stetson, New York. In favor of sound money. Herbert B. Turner, New York. Sound jtnoney. ■«.

BRYAN HAS LOST NEWSPAPER SUPPORT

The Following Is • List of some of the Democratic and Independent Papers that have announced themselves as opposed to 16 to 1 and the Democratic National Ticket: Staats Zeitung, New York.

“ Baltimore Sun. Boston Herald. Brooklyn Bagle. Baltimore News. Pittsburg Leader. Richmond (Va.) Times. New York Times Chattanooga Times. Philadelphia Ledger. Philadelphia Times. New York Sun. Galveston News. St. Paul Globe. ‘ Greenville (S. C.) News. Hartford Times. Worcester Post. Burlington (la.) Gazette. Raleigh (N. C.) Observer. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. New Haven Union. Fall River Herald. Manchester (N. H.) Union. New Haven Register. Charleston (S. C.) Post. Montana Journal. Butte City. LaPorte City, (la.) Progress Review. Bloomington dll.) Journal. Qertnan Weekly.

MISSOURIANS ARE APPRECIATING PROSPERITY

Ralph Simmons, banker, Seymour, Mo. General prosperity of the country. Capt. R. A. Collins, Piedmont, Mo., captain artillery in Confederate army, also lawyer fine ability. Sound money and prosperity and expansion. Col. G. W. Ceatli, Piedmont, Mo., business man. Prosperity and good business. Col. O. I>. Nieder, Mansfield, Mo., Democratic candidate prosecuting attorney in 1898. Expansion and prosperity. H. E. Stiff, Mountain Grove, lumber merchant. Good business. M. Gorman. Hartville, merchant, former Democratic collector of Wright county. Business conditions. Henry a Snyder, Mountain Grove, farmer. Good prices for farm products. Prof. J. S. Magee, Cape Girardeau, professor in college. Willing to stump for sound money and expansion. R. McCombs, Jackson, miller. Expansion and sound money. Rob’t Barnard. McElhaney Station, farmer. Prosperity. Jesse Frank. Orangeville, son of the former Populist candidate for Congress. Now on the stump for McKinley and prosperity. J. H. Stoinecipher, Buffalo, Mo., Populist candidate for Congress in 1896. Ready to stump state for McKinley and Flory. W. D. Olderworth, St. Louis, farmer. Approves entire policy of the President. Expansion. Walter Olderworth, St. Louis, farmer. Approves entire policy of the President. Expansion. Bruno Olderworth, St. Louis, farmer. Approves entire policy of the President. Expansion. Henry Heineman, St. Louis, farmer. Satisfied with McKinley in administration. Business conditions satisfy him also.

James Gardner. St. Louis, farmer. Bryan’s claim that McKinley’s election would mean low prices proven false. Entirely satisfied with McKinley. Believes him safe and good President. Eugene Guerre, florisant, business man. Now believes Bryan wrong on all issues. Wm. Offer, St. Louis, telegrapn operator. Enlisted as Bryan did to fight Spain, and is in hearty sympathy with President’s course and is working for his re-election. Dr. Davis. Charleston, Mississippi Co., physician. Sound money and fixed policy of Republican party. John A. Jackson. Chillicothe, Populist candidate for Congress in 1896. Says he don’t want to shoot in the air any longer. Wants to vote with the party that has fixed principles and policies. G. S. Clemens, Carthage, business man. General prosperity of the country. Thos. H. Harkless, Lamar, merchant, now Republican candidate for Legislature. Prosperity. Gen. D. H. Mclntyre, Mexico, Mo., former Attorney General of Missouri, an old ex-Confederate general, writes that he will vote the Republican ticket from top to bottom, and take the stump in October if his strength will permit. Julius S. Walsh, president of the Terminal Railroad Association of St. Louis, is a native of this city, and voted

A GEORGIAN’S REASONS FOR VOTING FOR McKINLEY

I shall vote for McKinley and Roosevelt because: First—We are Americans, and ate against all of America’s enemies. Second—We are patriotic, and are desirous of suppressing those who give aid a*nd comfort to our enemies. Third—We are honest and are against all efforts at dishonoring the nation by currency legislation or otherwise. Fourth —We are law abiding, and are against all encouragement, of force in the settlement of disputes. Fifth—We are progressive, and

Denver Times'. (Silver Republican and supported Bryan in 1896.) Denvfer Republican. (Silver Republican and supported Bryan in 1896.) Denver Post. Port Chester (N. Y.) Daily Item. Sedalia (Mo.) Daily Bazoo. Louisville Post. Nashville Banner. Wellston (O.) Sentinel. Beloit (Wis.) Daily News. Louisville Dispatch. Detroit Free Press. Galveston Globe. Pittsburg Dispatch. De Kalb fill. ) Advertiser. Rockford dll.) Germania. -St. Louis Anzeiger des Westens. Philadelphia Demokrat. The People, Chicago. Utica (N. ¥.) Observer. Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel! Troy (N. Y.) Press. Westchester (Pa.) Republican. Butte(Mont.) Inter Mountain Monona Leader, Monona, la.

tor the Democratic ticket for more than thirty years. In 1896 he took an active part in the local sound money movement and marched in the big procession of October 31 that year. He was one of the vice presidents of the Music Hall meeting of the sound money Democratic party on the evening of the same day, the principal speaker of which was the presidential candidate of that party, Gen. John M. Palmer, whose death is now being mourned by the whole nation. Mr. Walsh will vote for McKinley and Roosevelt next November. The official reports of the Terminal Association show that its receipts have steadily increased since President McKinley’s election, and Mr. Walsh is authority for the statement that the company’s business is larger now than it ever was before. When asked if he thought the business would continue to increase in the event of Bryan’s election, he laughed and answered: “I’d not like to take the chances.” G. H. Walker, stock broker, St. Louis, Mo. Sound money. H. H. Pike, live stock dealer, Ashland, Pike Co.. Mo.: “A good many ‘Pikers’ will be with me in voting for McKinley this year. I can borrow money at a lower rate of interest than I could before McKinley’s election, and get a better price for my stock. A good many of my neighbors also have been more prosperous under McKinley than they were before, and we all believe that it is to our interest to keep him in.” James Campbell, stock broker, St. Louis. Sound money, and says that “McKinley is more apt to carry Missouri than Bryan is to carry New York.” A. W. Day, president Day Rubber Co., St. Louis. Prosperity and sound money. < William B. Cowan, cashier National Bank of Commerce, St. Louis, Mo. Sound money and prosperity. P. C. Maffett. president Missouri Railway Co., . St. Louis, Mo. Sound money and prosperity. R. P. Tansey, president St. Louis Transfer Co. Wants sound money. Alonzo C. Church, vice president Wiggins Ferry Co., St. Louis, Mo.: “Bryan is not a Democrat, but a Populist. He is a different man from the line of eminent Democrats beginning with Jefferson and ending with Cleveland. John Seullin, president Wiggins Ferry Co., St. Louis: "I always voted the Democratic ticket until Mr. Bryan’s nomination on a free silver platform at Chicago fmir years ago. For the government t" put a stamp on a piece of silver bullion and call it a dollar, without being able to redeem it in money which circulates at its face value the world over, seems to me ridiculous. I expect to vote for McKinley and to continue voting the Republican ticket as long as the Democratic party continues to advocate the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1." Judge John G. Wear, Poplar Bluff, Mo., for twelve years on the Missouri Circuit Court bench. Is disgusted with the makeshifts of the Democracy for a “paramount” issue.

favor legitimate expansion of our commerce ana ouj/tyower. Sixth —W’etfcre hopeful that Mr. McKinley has Seen his former errors and will treat our Southern people fairly and broadly, and carefully refrain from humiliating them Will he do so? If he does not, then all hope of ever breaking the solid South must be postponed until he Is succeeded by a wiser man; and we. who are leaving the beaten path, will sorrowfully and penitently return whence we c^me Alexander R Lawton. Savannah. Ga.

COL. JAMES R. CAMPBELL BELIEVES IN EXPANSION

Ex-Congressman James R. Campbell of McLeansboro.ftf., for years a leader in the Democratic party of Southern Illinois, has announced his conversion to Republicanism on the expansion question. He is a colonel in the United States service and has just returned from the Philippines. “ I have always been a Democrat,” said Colonel Campbell, ‘‘but the party’s stand on the Philippine question compels me to change my political, belief. I desire to be known as an expansion Republican. Any Democrat, Bryan included, who will go to the Philippines and ascertain the exact situation, as I know it, will come home.convinced the party is wrong on the question. We should hold the islands and give the people a stable government. 1 believe the war In the Philippines will cease as soon as McKinley is re-elected.” Colonel Campbell’s wideacquaint-

BRYAN MISSES THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN ASPIRATION^

Dr. J. A. Milburn,- pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of Indianapolis, who has been a sturdychampion of Democratic principles in the past, intends to vote the Republican ticket this year. He says: “I see no reason why a minister should not express his political preferences, as well as any one else. I have been for long years a Democrat, but at the last Presidential election voted for McKinley. I will vote for him again.- Mr. Bryan. 1 think, is a good man. but he is the incarnation of economic heresies, and what is more he fails to understand the temperament and the genius of a growing world. He has not yet learned, evidently, that life means growth, and that to cease to

KANSAS WANTS EXPANSION AND GENERAL PROSPERITY

W. H. Nation, a leading Populist of Erie, Neosho Co., Kansas: “McKinley’s election was not attended by the evil consequences predicted, in fact the time since the election of 1896 has been a period of almost unexampled prosperity. Instead of men hunting work, you now find work hunting men, and the doleful predictions made four years ago now read like a comic almanac, and this fact has made it necessary to create a new issue, consequently, the question of imperialism has been brought forward and the Democratic party has become sentimental and is shedding tears over the wrongs of the colored man (10,000 miles away). I can see no reason why the Populist party should any longer follow Mr. Bryan, the fact that nearly all the gold Democrats that bolted Bryan in ’96 are supporting him now leads me to believe that secretly he has abandoned the silver issue, and on that issue only was he in sympathy with the Populist party. From the first I have been in favor of retaining the Philippines and sustaining the administration.” R. E. Melvin, Lawrence, Kan. A leading attorney and graduate of the Kansas State University. John A. Forrest, one of the leading business men of Hope, Kansas. Prosperity. Judge Funk, Medicine Lodge, Kan. Prosperity. Ben Jenkins, miner, Weir City. Lou McGruder, farmer, Weir City.

George L. Rives. New r York. Sound money. William E. Curtis, New York. Sound money. Abram H. Dailey, the well-known Brooklyn lawyer and former Surrogate of Kings county, has abandoned the Democratic organization with which he had been closely allied for years and will vote the whole Republican ticket this year. Mr. Dailey thus briefly but forcibly accounts for his political change of heart: “When I want to destroy a bad cause I come out actively against it. I don't believe in any halfway measures in regard to Bryanism.” F. P. Garrettson, Newport, R. 1., was once a free trader, but is convinced that protection is the proper policy for the United States to pursue. J. R. Williams, Bucks, Summers Co., West Va In declining a Democratic nomination he wrote: “As an honest man I cannot consent to allow my name to remain on a ticket I cannot support. I voted for William McKinley in 1896 and am proud of It, as I feel the Republican party has fully redeemed all its pledges made to the people then, and especially to the farmers. I desire no change in the administration. I feel that I can support my family better and easier; have better prices and readier markets for the products of my farm under a Republican administration I cannot jeopardize my Interests for any untried theory of free silver or bugaboo of imperialism, am for McKinley and the Repuuiican ticket/’ B. F. Meador. Dunns, West Va.: “I have been a ltfe-long Democrat, voting that for 21 years, but I find tnat the Republican party is the party of the people; the party for the farmer an a boring man. I can live ea9le^.“ n „ have more comforts of life ‘ Ttn<le *\ Republican administration than unaei, a Democratic administration. In. '■ of these facts, I can no longer the Democratic ticket, and hereby .dare myself for McKinley and publican party.” T have A. J. Mills. Oriskany N. Y.-I have voted the Democratic cket m f v voteto s-t «i.u um* rs»?m2 McKinley and ttooseveii. ‘ Kinley’s attitude on the Cuban ques tion and l admire Roosevelt very

ance in Illinois led State Chairman Rowe to ask Him to make speeches for the Republican ticket, but he declined on the ground that his furlough is only for another month and he has not the time to take the stump. In 1884 Mr. Campbell was elected as a Democrat to the house from the forty-sixth senatorial district, and was re-elected in 1886. Two years later he was promoted to the senate, where he served eigh£ years. His legislative career was criticised many times, but he was ever known as a loyal Democrat. In 1896 he was elected to congress on the Democratic ticket In the twentieth Illinois district. When the Spanish-American War broke out he raised the Ninth Illinois Regiment and was elected colonel. He was the first congressman to resign from the house to accept a commission in the army. He has been in the Philippines since occupation by American troops.

grow means the beginning of death. Whether, as Mr. Bryan says, world dominion is our destiny or not one thing is clear, and that is that expansion is in our blood, and it is in our blood not because of any love of conquest of tile world, but of our passion for the world’s betterment. One thing that characterizes the American is his God-like ambition, his supreme and splendid passion for achievement. He is not satisfied with the- good. He yearns for the better, and when he has attained the better he reaches out for the best. He wants this ta> be the best possible world, and. thank God, he is man enough to do his share to make it so.”

Charles I. Dodson, merchant, Weir City. Charles Hughes, Weir City. J. S. Murphy, expressman, Weir City. Henry Davis, carpenter, Weir City. Captain J. W. Farrell, real'estate and insurance, Weir City. Matt Goodman, miner, Weir City. Robert Goodman, weigh -check man, Weir City. Ed Goodman, miner* Weir City. Tom Brisco, miner. Weir City. James Dunn, Sr., miner. Weir City. ? .James Dunn, Jr., miner, Weir City. Ira Clemens, ? coal prospector, Weir City. J. D. James, merchant. Weir City. William Eddy. Weir City. James Bates, miner. Weir City. Matt McClenahan. miner. Weir City. Dan Gray, miner, City. John Cunningham, Weir City. Ben Rood, miner. Weir City. James Moore, merchant, Weir City. Sol Relli, miner, Weir City. John Alfred, miner, Weir City. Mike Fasogen, miner, Weir City. Charles Kemp, miner, Weir City. Thomas Mallems, miner, Weir City. , Ed Broadhurst, farmer, Weir City. S. P. Murphy, ice dealer, Weir City. ’ s . Charles Dunn, miner, Weir City. H. Huntsterger, mine engineer, Weir City.

Judge A. C. Hinkson of Sacramento, Cal., has resigned from the Iroquois club, the leading Demqcratic organization of the state. “Long before the retentlon of the Philippines had crystallized into a political issue I expressed the unqualified opinion that, not only as a wise political and commercial measure, but as a duty to the inhabitants of the Philippine Islands, they should be retained as our territory and should be governed as our other territories are governed. To this view I still adhere, regardless of the wishes of the comparatively few who are in rebellion against our government." William H. Devlin, at one time Democratic candidate for assemblyman, Sacramento, Cal., uow a leading attorney. “The Philippines are now in rebellion against the authority of the United States, and for my part, I believe that this rebellion should be crushed, and that until the authority of our government, is recognized no negotiations towards peace should be had. Bv acquiring the Philippines we haVe undertaken new responsibilities and are liable to the governments of the world for the proper preservation of property rights and maintenance of good government- In my judgment, this can be brought abouf at the present time only by the authority of our government being recognized and respected. For these reasons and others I favor the policy of President McKinley, and intend to vote for him.” Col. Andrew Corry. who has hitherto been one of the principal stays of the Democratic party in Iron county. Utah, has publicly announced himself a Republican. As Mr. Corry Is widely known throughout Utah, hts conversion will occasion no little surprise. Will H. Lett, who has been secretary In the Salt Lake City fUtah) Fifth precinct, has resigned and will support the Republican ticket. “I think It would be suicidal to make a change in the administration at this time. I believe President McKinley is the right man for the place at present and I shall do rill I can to keep him there. I am in favor of expansion and believe this cry of ‘imperialism is all a bugaboo. I have always been a Democrat until this year, but from nopr on I intend to do all I apt able to elect th* Republican ticket.”