Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — FORMER CONGRESSMAN PAGE FLAYS BRYAN [ARTICLE]

FORMER CONGRESSMAN PAGE FLAYS BRYAN

Ex-Congressman Charles H. Page, Providence, R. I.: “What choice have I except McKinley? There are candidates besides. McKinley, but I guess I wont have to look far. “Bryan—l know Bryan. That’s why I won’t vote for him. I am just as good a Democrat as I ever was, but Bryan is no Democrat. -1 was with him in Congress. I knew him there, and I . watched then all the populistic tricks he had. “I am against Bryan because I

do not believe in denouncing the Supreme Court; because I believe in upholding the Supreme Court. There is no longer a place in the Democratic party for men who think like I do. Men like Hill, who are good Democrats, are letting things go along and helping this man in his course to get rid of him. They think — they know, in fact—that the only way he can be gotten rid of is to have him beaten thoroughly. “That’s what I think of Bryan. I am still a Democrat, understand.”