Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1900 — “McKINLEY SOMETHING MORE THAN A MAN AFTER AN OFFICE” [ARTICLE]

“McKINLEY SOMETHING MORE THAN A MAN AFTER AN OFFICE”

James S. Evans, Chicago, Ill.: “I come/ of a long line of Democrats who have been conspicuous in the political history of the Gulf States. I cannot subscribe to the teachings of Mr. Bryan. Believing them to be dangerous and especially detrimental to the interests of the South, I shall cast my vote for the first time in the history fc of a member of my family, for the Republican National ticket. * * * It seems to

me to be the very acme of insincerity for a Southern Democrat * * * to preach about individual liberty, the right of the governed to be consulted about matters of state issues. * * * A Southerner by birth; in politic: a Democrat; an American by th grace of God, I shall, in the absence of a Democratic nominee, vote for William McKinley be cause be is something more than a man after an office.”