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ORE DE ATS, POPULISTS EX-SECRETARY CARLISLE will support mckinley Hon. John 0. Carlisle, formerly Speaker of the House of Represen tatives and Secretary of the Treasury under President Cleveland, has accepted the Presidency of a Sound Money Club in New York and will assist in the re-election of President McKinley. Mr. Carlisle’s reasons are covered by two utterances made In a speech at Chicago four years ago. They still hold good. He said: “ The greatest crime, short of absolute political enslavement, that could be committed against the wo klngman In this country would be to confiscate his labor for the benefit of the employer by destroy* Ing the value of the money In which his wases are paid. But, gentle* men, this Irreparable wrong can never be perpetrated under our system of government, unless the laboring man himself assists In forging his own chains.” — Mon. John Q. Carlisle, Democrat, lix Secretary of the Treasury, Chicago, April IS, 1896. *• No man who has a particle of sympathy for working men and women, and their dependent fami lies, can contemplate the possibil ity of such a calamity (free coinage of silver) without feeling that it is his cnity, whether he occupies a public or private station, to em ploy every honorable means at his command to avert it.”— Hon. John Q. Carlisle, Democrat, Ex Secretary Treasury, Chicago, April 15, 1896. WILLIAM HINTZ AND HIS EXPERIENCE WITH SHEEP William Hints, one of the best known German farmers In Hancock County, Ohio, gives this reason for his conversion from Bryanlsm: "I used to be a Democrat, and I was one until I found that by voting the Democratic ticket I was voting against my sheep. I had a big flock of sheep on my farm. The Democratic party In 1892 Initiated free trade and took the duty off wool. The price fell to 11 cents. It made me think. I studied the ques tion hard and conscientiously, and from all sides. I looked at it In an unbiased manner. What was good for me certainly must be good for my neighbor, and he must also suf fer with me. If the price of my wool depreciated, the cost of clothes might be less, but I would have no money to buy them. I studied the matter carefully, and came to the conclusion that I might Just as well kill my sheep as vote the Democrat ic ticket. Then came the cry of free silver. In my life I have found that it is wise to follow successful men. Therefore if a man is a money maker, why not watch him and try the same methods yourself? I found j that the men of the country who i had money were against free silver. I asked myself why, and concluded free silver would be bad for my sheep. I voted for McKinley and the Republican platform and have done so ever since. I shall support the Republican ticket this year. I am no longer a Democrat but a Re publican. The Democratic platform shffts its planks too often to suit me. I am satisfied with the present state of affairs, and so are my sheep.” MORE NEBRASKANS LEAVE BRYAN’S STANDARD Dr. J. T. Smith, Red Cloud. William Kent, 8r., retired farmer, Red Cloud. J. S. Dyer, stock buyer, Red Cloud. Ed. Dyer, stock buyer, Red Cloud. . Geo. Blair, merchant, Red Cloud. Joe Blair, clerk, Red Cloud. Bert Blair, clerk, Red Cloud. Paul Storey, clerk, Red Cloud. Hub. Henry, farmer, Red Cloud. . M. R. Bentley, capitalist, Red Cloud. Thos. Penman, merchant, Red Cloud. Geo. Lindsey, farmer (cattle), Red Cloud. 8am Kiser, carpenter, Red Cloud. Will Kiser, carpenter, Red Cloud. Clarence Kiser, carpenter, Red Cloud. Jim Brown, carpenter, Red Cloud. Henry Brown, carpenter, Red Cloud. J. 8. Geeham, attorney, Red Cloud. Henry Geeham, farmer, Red Cloud. E. McFarland, merchant, Red Cloud. Frank Cowden, merchant. Red Cloud. C. M. Storey, liveryman, Cowles. H. Burgess, merchant, Blue Hill, was Populist candidate tor county treasurer three years ago. Andrew Guy, farmer, Guide Rock, German. Henry Guy, farmer, Guide Rock, German. Geo. Guy, farmer, Guide Rock, German. Dr. Bradshaw, Guide Rock. A. 8. Proudflt, lumber merchant, Guide Rock. Ohmsteads (three of them), Guide Rock, Germans. Charles Amack, farmer. Red Cloud. Evans Amack, farmer, Red Cloud. J. 8. Emigh, farmer, Cowles. M. Sterne, merchant, Red Cloud. H. Deidrick, merchant, Red Cloud. Walt Elliott, shoemaker, Red Cloud. John McCord, farmer, Guide Rock. Harry McCord, farmer, Guide Rock. Harvey Perry, plasterer, Red Cloud. Nibs Perry, plasterer, Red Cloud. Vance McCall, farmer, Imarah. James Vance, farmer, Imarah. Lawrence McCall, farmer, Red Cloud. Floyd McCall, farmer. Red Cloud. Thos. Emlgh, farmer, Red Cloud. W. S. Bense, merchant, Red Cloud. W. Bense, merchant, Red Cloud. A. Cook, retired merchant, Red Cloud. O. C. Case, attorney. Red Cloud. Charles Davis, farmer. Red Cloud. F. Sadellck, farmer, Red Cloud. Joe Sadellck, farmer, Red Cloud. Charles J. Platt, merchant, Red Cloud. C. G. Seder, Delolt township, Holt Co., Neb.: “I am for the straight Republican ticket this year. Mc Kinley times are good enough for me and I want to have more good times. I was Populist committee man of Deloit township long enough to find out that the Populist party is not a party of reform, and I can't see how any thinking man can sup port Bryan again after seeing the prosperous condition of the country and seeing how Bryan’s predictions have turned out. A large number of my neighbors who supported j Bryan four years ago are, like my- ; self, disgusted with the talk about I imperialism, trusts, etc., and will ! this time cast their votes with the party that always gives us good government and good prices for our products. I am for the straight Re publican ticket.” J. W. Hunter, Abingdon, 111., Collector of Internal Revenue In the Peoria dis trict under President Cleveland. Was party nomtnee for Congress eight years ago. -Frank Sweeney, New Albany, Ind., formerly city engineer. Organized a McKinley and Roosevelt club. John N. Penrod, Wabash, Ind., one of the most prominent lumber men in the state. Voted for Palmer and Buck ner four years ago. Believes Bryan’s attitude on the money question Is a menace to the material interests of every citizen. Oliver A. Allard, Metropolis. 111., a life-long Democrat and owner of the largest farm in Massac county con taining 1,800 acres opposite Paducah. He has never before cast a Republican vote. Prosperity. Ex-Governor Charles T. O’Fesraii of Richmond, Va., states that there will be twice as many business men in Richmond this year who will support McKinley as there were in 1896. He will not support Bryan, but will vote for McKinley and has always hereto fore been a Democrat. Frank T. Glascow, superintendent of the Tredegar Iron Company, Rich mond, Va., the largest iron manufac turing plant in the state, will this year vote for McKinley. Major Clay Drewry of the firm of Drewry, Hughes A Co., Richmond, Va., one of the largest dry goods firms in the state, who voted for Bryan in 1896, will this year vote for McKinley. Mr. J. F. George of Richmond, Va., one of the largest dealers in leaf to bacco, who voted for Bryan in 1896, will vote for McKinley this year. William R. Trigg, president of the W. R. Trigg company, a very large shipbuilding plant that has opened up In Richmond, .Va., will this year vote tor McKinley. His works give employ ment to nearly 1,000 operatives. He has heretofore always been a Demo «ist Virginius Newton, president of the First National bank, Richmond, Va., who voted for Palmer and Buckner in 1896, will not vote for Bryan this year md says that he considers him the most dangerous man in America to iay. Colonel John B. Purcell of the whole sale drug firm of Purcell, Ladd & Co., Richmond, Va., voted for Palmer and Buckner in 1896, but will not vote for Bryan this year. R. E. Richardson, Talleysville, Va., one of the largest timber operators in Virginia as well as a merchant operat ing five stores, who would not vote at all in 1896, will vote for McKinley this year and states as his reason that he is satisfied for business to remain as it is. Roger Gregory, Jr., Democratic chair man of King William county, Va.. in 1896 and a large planter, has announced his intention of voting for McKinley this year. , One of the oldest Democrats in West Virginia, Mr. John B. Darnall of Al derson, Monroe county, has come out for McKinley in a letter in which he says that he is 82 years old and has voted with the Democrats for more than 50 years, but now feels compelled to become identified with the party that has brought such prosperity to his state by the operation of its principles of sound money and protective tariff. James Brlttingham of Mount Vernon, N. Y. General Charles F. Smyth of Chi cago, formerly on Governor S. J. Til den’s staff in New York. Arthur A. Taylor, Santa Crus, Cal. Jacob Keene, prominent attorney, Athens, Mich. Franklin Bartlett, New York. Fav ors sound money. Francis L. Stetson, New York. In favor of sound money. Herbert B. Turner, New York. Sound money. BRYAN HAS LOST NEWSPAPER SUPPORT TIm Following to a Ltot of soma of the Democratic and Independent Paper* that have announced themselves a* opposed to IA to 1 and _ the Democratic National Tk«t: Staats Zeituni, New York. J * Baltimore Sun. Boston Herald. Brooklyn Eagle. Baltimore News. Pittsburg Leader. Richmond (Va.) Times. New York Times Chattanooga Times. Philadelphia Ledger. Philadelphia Times. New York Sun. Galveston News. St. Paul Globe. Greenville (S. C.) News. Hartford Times. Worcester Post. Burlington (la.) Gazette. Raleigh (N. C.) Observer. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. New Haven Union. Fall River Herald. Manchester (N. H.) Union. New Haven Register. Charleston (S. C.) Post. Montana Journal, Butte City. LaPorte City, (la.) Progress Review. Bloomington (III.) Journal. Omui Waakly. Denver limes. (Silver Republican and supported Bryan In 1896.) Denver Republican. (Silver Republican and anppartad Bryan in 1896.) Denver Post. Port Chester (N. Y.) Daily Item. Sedalia (Mo.) Daily Bazoo. Louisville Post. Nashville Banner. Weiiston (O.) Sentinel. Beloit (Wis.) Daily News. Louisville Dispatch. Detroit Free Press. Qalveston Globe. Pittsburg Dispatch. De Kalb (III.) Advertiser. Rockford (HI.) Germania. St. Louis Anzeiger des Westens. Philadelphia Demokrat. The People, Chicago. Utica (N. Y.) Observer. Rome (N. Y.) Sentinel. Troy (N. Y.) Press. Westchester (Pa.) Repub lican. Butte (Mont.) Inter Mountain Monona Leader, Monona, la. MISSOURIANS ARE APPRECIATING PROSPERITY Ralph SlmmonB, 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. Ceath. Piedmont, Mo., business man. Prosperity and good hiiBlnonB Col. O. I* Nleder, Mansfield, Mo., Democratic candidate prosecuting at torney in 1898. Expansion and pros perity. H. E. Stiff, Mountain Grove, lumber merchant Good business. M. Gorman, Hartvllle, merchant, for mer Democratic collector of Wright county. Business conditions. Henry 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. Ex pansion and sound money. Rob’t Barnard, McElhaney Station, farmer. Prosperity. Jesse Frank, Orangeville, son of the former Populist candidate for Con gress. Now on the stump for McKin ley and prosperity. * J. H. Stolneclpher, Buffalo, Mo., Pop ulist 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, farm er. Approves entire policy of the Pres ident. Expansion. Bruno Olderworth, St. Louis, farmer. Approves entire policy of the Presi dent Expansion. Henry Helneman, St Louis, farmer. Satisfied with McKinley in adminis tration. 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. Be lieves him safe and good President. Eugene Guerre, florisant, business man. Now believes Bryan wrong on all issues. Wm. Offer, St. Louis, telegrapn op erator. Enlisted as Bryan did to fight Spain, and is in hearty sympathy with President’s course and is working for Ills re-election. Dr. Davis, Charleston, Mississippi Co., physician. Sound money and fixed policy of Republican party. John A. Jackson, Chillicothe, Popu list candidate for Congress In 1896. Says he don’t want to shoot in the air any longer. WantB to vote with the party that has fixed principles and poli cies. G. S. Clemens, Carthage, business man. General prosperity of the coun try. Thos. H. Harkless, Lamar, merchant, now Republican candidate for Legisla ture. Prosperity. Gen. D. H. McIntyre, 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 Btump in October If hlB strength will permit. Julius S. Walsh, president of the Terminal Railroad Association of St Louis, is a native of this city, and voted for the Democratic ticket for more than thirty years. In 1896 he took an active part in the local sound money move ment and marched in the big proces sion of October 31 that year. He was one of the vice presidents of the Music Hall meeting of the sound money Dem ocratic party on the evening of the same day, the principal speaker of which was the presidential candidate of that party, Oen. John M. Palmer, whose death is now being mourned by the whole nation. Mr. Walsh will vote for McKinley and Roosevelt next No vember. The official reports of the Terminal Association show that its re ceipts have steadily Increased Bince President McKlnley’B 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 an swered: "I’d not like to take the chances.’’ O. H. Walker, stock broker, St. Louis, Mo. Sound money. H. H. Pike, live stock dealer, Ash land, 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 (be lieve that it is to our interest to keep him in.’’ James Campbell, stock broker, St. Louis. Sound money, and says that "McKinley 1b more apt to carry Mis souri 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 Popu list. He is a different man from the line of eminent Democrats beginning with Jefferson and ending with Cleve land. John Scullin, president Wiggins Fer ry Co., St. Louis: "I always voted the Democratic ticket until Mr. Bryan’s nomination on a free silver platform at Chicago four years ago. For the government to 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 val ue the world over, seems to me ridicu lous. 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 un limited coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1.” Judge John Q. Wear, Poplar Bluff. Mo., for twelve years on the Missour: Circuit Court bench. Is disgusted with the makeshifts of the Democracy for a “paramount’’ issue. A GEORGIAN’S REASONS FOR VOTING FOR McKINLEY I shall vote for McKinley and Roosevelt because: First—We are Americans, and are asainst all of America's enemies. Second—We are patriotic, and are desirous of suppressing those who give aid and comfort to our ene mies. Third—We are honest and are against all efforts at dishonoring the nation by currency legislation or otherwise. Fourth—We are law abiding, and are against all encouragement of force in the settlement of disputes. Fifth—We are progressive, and favor legitimate expansion of our commerce and our power. Sixth—We are hopeful that Mr. McKinley has seen his former errors and will treat our Southern people fairly and broadly, and carefully re frain from humiliating them. Will he do so? If he does not, then all hope of ever breaking the solid South must be postponed until he is succeeded by a wiser man; and we, who are leaving the beaten path, will sorrowfully and penitently re turn whence we came. Alexander R. Lawton. Savannah, Qa. COL. JAMES R. CAMPBELL BELIEVES IN EXPANSION Ex-Congressman James R. Camp bell of McLeansboro. III., for years a leader in the Democratic party of Southern Illinois, has announced his conversion to Republicanism on the expansion question. He Is a colonel in the United States service and has Just returned from the Philippines. “ I have always been a Demo crat,” said Colonel Campbell, “but the party’s stand on the Philippine question compels me to change my political belief. I desire to be known as an expansion Republican. Any Democrat, Bryan included, who will go to the Philippines and ascertain the exact situation, as I know it, will come home convinced the party is wrong on the question. We should hold the islands and give the people a stable govern ment. I believe the war in the Philippines will cease as soon as McKinley Is re-elected.” Colonel Campbell’s wideacquaint ance In Illinois led State Chairman Rowe to ask him to make speeches for the Republican ticket, but he declined on the ground that liis furlough is only for another month and he has not the time to take the stump. In 1884 Mr. Campbell was elected as a Democrat to the house from the forty-sixth senatorial dis trict, and was re-elected in 1886. Two years later he was promoted to the senate, where he served eight years. His legislative career was criticised many times, but he was ever known as a loyal Demo crat. In 1896 he was elected to congress on the Democratic ticket In the twentieth Illinois district. When the Spanish-American War broke out he raised the Ninth Illi nois Regiment and was elected colonel. He was the first congress man to resign from the house to accept a commission in the drmy. He has been in the Philippines since occupation by American troops. BRYAN MISSES THE SPIRIT OF AMERICAN ASPIRATIONS Dr. J. A. Milburn, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church of In dianapolis, who has been a sturdy champion of Democratic principles in the past, intends to vote the Re publican ticket this year. He says: “I see no reason why a minister should not express his political pref erences, as well as any one else. I have been for long years a Demo crat, but at the last Presidential election voted for McKinley. I will vote for him again. Mr. Bryan, I think, is a good man, but he is the incarnation of economic heresies, and what is more he fails to under stand the temperament and the genius of a growing world. He has not yet learned, evidently, that life means growth, and that to cease to grow means the beginning of death. Whether, as Mr. Bryan says, world dominion is our destiny or not one thing is clear, and that is that ex pansion is in our blood, and it is in our blood not because of any love of conquest of the world, but of our passion for the world’s betterment. One thing that characterizes the American is his God-lilte ambition, his supreme and splendid passion for achievement. He is not satisfied with the good. He yearns for the better, and when he has attained the better he reaches out for the best. He wants this to be the best possible world, and, thank God, he is man enough to do his share to make it so.” KANSAS WANTS EXPANSION AND GENERAL PROSPERITY W. H. Nation, a leading Populist of Erie, Neosho Co., Kansas: “Mc Kinley’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 un exampled 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 Democrat-'" ic 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 retain ing 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 lead ing 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, Weir City. John Cunningham, Weir City. Ben Rood, miner, Weir City. James Moore, merchant, Weir City. Sol Relit, 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. Charles Dunn, miner, Weir City. H. Huntsterger, mine engineer, Weir City. George L. Rives, New York. Sound money. William E. Curtis, New York. Sound money. , Abram H. Dailey, the well-known Brooklyn lawyer and former Surrogate of Kings county, has abandoned the Democratic organization with which he had been closely allied for years and will vote the whole Republican ticket this year. Mr. Dailey thus briefly but forcibly accounts for his political change of heart: “When I want to de stroy a bad cause I come out actively against it. I don’t believe in any half way measures in regard to Bryanism.” F. P. Garrettson, Newport, R. I.. was once a free trader, but is convinced that protection is the proper policy for the United States to pursue. J. R. Williams, Bucks, Summers Co., West Va. In declining a Democratic nomination he wrote: “As an honest man I cannot consent to allow my name to remain on a ticket I cannot support. I voted for William McKinley in 1896 and am proud of it, as I feel the Republican party has fully redeem ed all its pledges made to the people then, and especially to the farmers. I desire no change in the administration. I feel that I can support my family better and easier; have better prices and readier markets for the products of my farm under a Republican ad ministration. I cannot jeopardize my interests for any untried theory of free silver or bugaboo of imperialism. I am for McKinley and the Repu oilcan ticket.” B. F. Meador, Dunns, West Va.: “I have been a Jife-long Democrat, voting that ticket for 21 years, but I find that the Republican party is the party of the people; the party for the farmer and laboring man. I can live easier and have more comforts of life under a Republican administration than under a Democratic administration. In view of these facts, I can no longer support the Democratic ticket, and hereby de clare myself for McKinley and the re publican party.” A. J. Mills, Orlskany, N. Y.—I have voted the Democratic ticket for years, but this time I shall give my vote to McKinley and Roosevelt. I liked Mc Kinley's attitude on the Cuban ques tion and I admire Roosevelt very much. Judge A. C. Hinkson of Sacramento,i Cal., has resigned from the Iroquois^ club, the leading Democratic organiza tion of the state. “Long before the re tention of the Philippines had crystal-' lized into a political issue I expressed] the unqualified opinion that, not only. ! as a wise political and commercial' i measure, but as a duty to the inhab itants of the Philippine Islands, theyi should be retained as our territory andi should be governed as our other terri tories are governed. To this view ti still adhere, regardless of the wishes of the comparatively few who are ia rebellion against our government.” William H. Devlin, at one time Democratic candidate for assembly man, Sdcramento, Cal., now 'a leading attorney. “The Philippines are now in rebellion against the authority of th" United States, and for my part, I be lieve that this rebellion should be crushed, and that until the authority of our government is recognized no' negotiations towards peace should be had. By acquiring the Philippines we have undertaken new responsibilitiea and are liable to the governments of the world for the proper preservation of property rights and maintenance of good government. In my Judgment, this can be brought about at the pres ent time only by the authority of our government being recognized and re spected. For these reasons and others, I favor the policy of President McKinley, and intend to vote for him.” Col. Andrew Corry, who has hitherto been one of the principal stays of the Democratic party in Iron county, Utah, has publicly announced himself a Re publican. As Mr. Corry is widely known throughout Utah, his conver sion will occasion no little surprise. Will H. Lett, who has been secretary, in the Salt Lake City (Utah) Fifth pre cinct, has resigned and will support the Republican ticket. “I think it would be suicidal to make a change in the administration at this time. I be lieve President McKinley is the right man for the place at present and I shall do all I can to keep him there. I am in favor of expansion and believe this cry of ‘imperialism’ is all a buga boo. I have always been a Democrat until tbis year, but from now on I in tend to do all I am able to elect the Republican ticket."