Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — IOWA DEMOCRATS WHO ARE OPPOSED TO FREE SILVER [ARTICLE]

IOWA DEMOCRATS WHO ARE OPPOSED TO FREE SILVER

E. G. Graham, mayor of Stuart, Iowa, and one of the leading democrats of western Iowa, who supported Bryan in 1896, has announced that he should support McKinley and the Republican ticket this year and will take the stump to advocate the election of McKinley. He stated that he did so because he was opposed to fusion; could not bear to be called £ Populist, and that he had discov@|ed that the prophecies of Bryan had come to naught. On

the other hand, he said, every Republican promise had been fulfilled and the gold standard and protective tariff had changed the nation from a borrowing to a loaning nation. He said he regarded imperialism and militarism as a cloak to cover free silver. Captain W. A. Duckworth, for years a leading Democratic worker of Keosauqua, la. Because expansion is the true Democratic doctrine, and that Bryan is no Democrat

W. W. Witmer, Des Moines, Iowa. Against free silver. L. M. Martin, Des Moines, Iowa. Against free silver. B. F. Tillinghast, Davenport, lowa. Against free silver. M. Ricker, Waterloo, lowa. Against free silver. J. P. Kieffer, Waterloo, lowa. Against free silver. W. J. Knight, Dubuque, lowa. Against free silver. W. J. Cantillon, Dubuque, lowa. Against free silver. Sam G. Sloane, Charles City, lowa. Against free silver. E. Duke Naven, La Porte, lowa. Against free silver. Hon. C. S. Ranck, lowa City, lowa. Opposed to free silver. Hon. John Everall, Elkader, lowa. Opposed to free silver. Judge J. C. Mitchell, Ottumwa, Iowa. Opposed to free silver. F. M. Hubbell, Des Moines, Iowa. Opposed to free silver. George H. Otis, Monona, Iowa. Opposed to free silver. T. J. Sullivan, Elkader, Iowa. Opposed to free silver. Hon. G. L. Gilbert, Monona, lowa. Opposed to free silver. Hon. George Scofield, Strawberry Point, Iowa. Opposed to free silver. E. Hagbnan. Burlington, Iowa. Opposed to free silver. Jacob Epstein, Burlington, Iowa. Opposed to free silver. H. A. Mathes, Burlington, Iowa. Opposed to free silver. G. H. Prenzler, Burlington, Iowa. Opposed to free silver.