Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — MORE NEBRASKANS LEAVE BRYAN'S STANDARD [ARTICLE]

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.

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.”

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-

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. ■«.

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

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.”