Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1900 — KANSAS WANTS EXPANSION AND GENERAL PROSPERITY [ARTICLE]

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.

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.