Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — MISSOURIANS ARE APPRECIATING PROSPERITY [ARTICLE]

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

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.