Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — WAYNE McVEAGH CANNOT SUPPORT BRYAN [ARTICLE]

WAYNE McVEAGH CANNOT SUPPORT BRYAN

Wayne McVeagh, whom President Cleveland appointed minister to Italy, has decided to support McKinley ’ and Roosevelt. His reasons are given below: “The controlling reason is the unwillingness I feel to intrust the government of the country to the men who now represent and control the Democratic organization, standing as they do upon the Chicago platform of 1896. I fully appreciate the desirableness of having two great political parties to either of which the destinies of this great and growing republic can be

safely committed, but, in my judgment, the Democratic party does- not at present meet that requirement. “It.feeetas to me the present tendency of President McKinley’s mind as to a foreign policy can/ be discerned in the true American policy he is now pursuing in China. “On the currency question I have always advocated a single gold standard of value, and at last I find myself in harmony with the Republican platform on that subject.”