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GENERAL LEW , VALLACE
General Lew "Wallace, of Crw
fordsville, Ind., who has fre
quently criticised the RepuHIcan
administration, has declared in
favor of re-electing President
McKinley. He says:
"I shall vote for Idr. ,'McKin
ley, and I chall vote fctf the en
tire Republican ticket I shall
vote for Mr. McKinWy because
the thought of the election of Mr.
Bryan is abhorrent ty me for sev
eral reasons. In fe first place,
I hold the man liviincere, for no
candidate can taVe nominations
from three parties without in
tending to fcol 6me one in case
of his election.
"In the next place, Mr. Bryan's
financial poller is one which, if
put in effect, would bring disas
ter and ru-3x on the country.
Free silver is a menace to the
business interests of the country.
George 'Ji. Weston, Belchertown,
Mass.: ; "l" have voted the Democratic
ticket Eiace Franklin Pierce was our
President, but the 'pull down the flas
and sneak home' policy is too big a
dose, ?.ad if I live I shall vote for Mc
Kinl'ty. Any American In whose aoul
dwe.ls one spark of national pride
who' is willing to humiliate his country
inthe eyes of the world should be
sood up and shot."
M. F. Bumgardner, farmer living
.near Ottawa. Kan.: "Four rears ago I
"was for Bryan. I shall vjte for Mc-
Kinley and the straight Republican
ticket this fall. I am ".atisfied with
conditions. I don't wan.' any change."
J. T. Yerkes, near Ottawa, Kan.:
"Four years ago I vo.ed for Bryan. I
am satisfied with r resent conditions
and think a chanre would be disas
trous. I notice that all the Populist
predictions of four years ago have
proven false, and every promise the
Republicans made has been kept."
"Walter Marks, farmer near Ottawa,
Kan.: "I was a Republican until four
years ago. They got me 'off' then,
but they cen't do It again. I was con
vinced two months after McKinley's
election that I had been misled. I
have hnd enough of Bryanism to last
me." '
II. F. Shively, Lane, Kan., a school
teacKer, and one of the most effective
fusijn workers in the campaign of
lSPiS: "I voted for Bryan and the other
fusion candidates. I shall vote the
straight Republican ticket this fall.
One of the causes for my change is
the expansion issue."
Chas. McCumber, Lane, Kan., a far
mer: "I voted for Bryan four years
ago. I have always noticed that we
have hard times when the Democrats
are in and good times when the Re
publicans are in. I am done with the
Democratic party."
J. C. Wakefield, banker, Lane, Kan.,
who supported Bryan four years ago,
and who is a man of wide influence
Li his community, said: "Of course
I siitM vote the Republican ticket this
fall. Tiice isn't anything else for a
man to do.' - .
B. C. Smith, linner, near Ottawa,
Kan.: "Count me for iKinley and the
whole Republican ticket. I, was a
Bryan man in 1S96. but you uet your
life I'm cured."
William Archer, near Ottawa, Kan.,
a well-known farmer: "I have voted
the Populist ticket for ten years; I
have been a Populist ever since the
party was organized. A farmer can't
afford to vote for a change this year.
I am going to vote the Republican
ticket."
J. B. Whitaker, near Ottawa, Kan.,
farmer: "I was a Republican until ten
years ago. I left the party when I
lived in Dakota and identified myself
with the People's party. I have a son
who served in the Philippines with
Company K. Any man who reads
Gen. Lawton's words to the people of
this country in which he said, "If I
am killed by a Filipino bullet my
death will lie at the door of the Fili
pino sympathizers in America,' and
then votes the Democratic ticket, he
is disloyal to his country. My sons
were all Bryan sympathizers in 1S96.
They are all for McKinley this year."
E. P. Sessions, Ottawa, Kan., under
taker, said: "You may put me down
as one of the men who voted for Bry
an in 1S9G and who will vote for Mc
Kinley this fall. McKinley's admin
istration has been superior in every
respect. The people do not need a
change."
O. B. Merrill, near Ottawa, Kan.:
"The things we expected to happen
didn't come about. Instead of disaster
we have had good times."
ANOTHER COLORADO
PAPER IN LINE
The Boulder County (Colo.)
Herald has decided to support
the McKinley administration.
The Herald left the Republican
party in 1896. It says:
'On the issue of 'imperial
ism,' which is a misnomer, the
Herald believes in standing by
the present administration. It
believes in the light of events
that the administration is pur
suing the proper course. It
looks upon the cry of .'imperial
ism' as a foolish play upon
words which should not be in
dorsed at the polls. The Herald
has the highest admiration for
Mr. Bryan. It believes him to
be sincere, but it also believes
him to be in error in this in
stance. Further than that the
cry of free silver still has an ef
fect upon the business interests
of the East similar to the shak
ing of a red rag at a bull. The
fear of it would so frighten busi
ness interests as to cause a finan
cial collapse equal to, if not
greater in extent to, that of
1893."
out -for Mckinley
"Finally, I am opposed to Mr.
Bryan, as I hold him directly re
sponsi It for the death of every
one of the brave American sol
diers slain in the Philippines.
It is the encouragement held out
to the rebels by Mr. Bryan and
others of his ilk that keeps up
the struggle there. The war was
over, but the sympathy and
promises held out by Mr. Bryan
have caused the fighting to break
out afresh, and it will from this
time until concluded be fraught
with more disaster to our boys,
for they have slowly and surely
been teaching their adversaries
how to fight. For each man who
falls there, be he inspired by the
sense cf duty, or the love of war,
Mr. Pryan is responsible. The
thought of electing such a man
as tJiis to the presidency is utter
ly repugnant."
E. Y. Smith, farmer, near Ottawa,
Kan.: "I voted for Bryan and all the
other fusion candidates four years
ago, but if I live I shall support the
straight Republican ticket this year.
I haven't voted the Republican ticket
since the days before the Greenback
party, but you can count me this time
sure."
. Si Hughes, Populist, Ottawa, Kan.:
"The Republican party has done what
we Populists have been striving to ac
complish, and that was to bring good
times. It would not be wise to change
now."
James L. Davis, a lifelong Demo
crat, Chllllcothe, Mo., who has
stumped the state for the Democrats
for thirty years: "Mr. McKinley has
done nothing more than his duty un
der the treaty of Paris. For every act
in his administration Mr.,
McKinley had ample authority from'
precedents established by Democratic
presidents who preceded him." ;
Attorney J. E. Robinson, Fargo 3.'
D., who Is known throughout the sta'.e:
"Many Populists who once voted for
Bryan now propose to vote for Mc
Kinley. We never vote to haul down
the flag, and we never vote so as to
encourage armed rebellion. Ttjk gen
uine Populist must be. a patr'ot. We
voted for Bryan as the honest and
able champion of free silver, coinage
and monetary expansion. f" Conditions
have changed; there is - no longer
dearth of money. That has been well
relieved by the discovery, of rich gold
mines, which yield an O'ttput cf about
$100,000,000 a year, anrVby the bank
ing and currency act, v hich add large
ly to the circulating medium. The
circulation is now larger than at any
ether time in the history of the coun
try. The McKinley administration
has been such as o inspire and retain
the confidence of the nations and the
confidence of th'jrf,business world, and
the result has '-been a period of com
mercial expansion, of trade balances,
of thrift and prosperity, such as was
never record'jd in the history of any
country."
Judge E.H. Norton, of Platte City,
Mo., ex-member of the Missouri Su
preme C'jurt, an old-time Democrat,
did not approve hi3 party's platform
on the money question in 1896 and he
has net taken up the cry of imperial-
Ism i'i this campaign. He regards it
9ff,.,a false issue and says: "I regard
it 3 a mere blind behind which to
hide the real issue, viz.: the free and
unlimited coinage of silver at the ra
tio of 1C to 1. The charge of imper
ialism is based by Mr. Bryan upon the
action of President McKinley, in en
deavoring to maintain the authority of
the United States in the Philippine
islands, by putting down by force the
armed rebellion of Aguinaldo. I re
gard the silver plank in the platform,
together with the assailment of the
integrity of the courts, as revolution
ary in the extreme as freighted with
evil promotive of disorder and blood-
' shed destructive to the best interests
i of the law-abiding at war with good
government, and an invitation to the
lawless to commit unlawful act3 with
impunity."
J. B. Dozier, District Attorney of
Shasta County, Cal., and a leading
Democrat of northern California:
"The great civilization which we have
achieved and our great development
is due to the spirit of expansion. I
believe the action taken by the gov
ernment of the United States in regard
to its foreign policy is right, just, pro
gressive and proper."
John B. Rhoades, proprietor and
operator of the cotton and woolen
mills at Aston Mills, Delaware Coun
ty, Pa., several times chairman of the
Delaware County Democratic Com
mittee: "I am still a Democrat but
cannot give my support to Bryan. He
is a man who is always trying to
cause a dissatisfaction .between the
laboring classes and the capitlists, and
in my judgment these two . forces
should always be harmonious. I con
sider any man who endeavors to make
these two forces clash. Is nothing
! short of a demagogue and not a safe
! man to be entrusted with the import-
ant position of President of the Unit
ed States."
! John Warren Hardenbergh, Jersey
City, N. J.: "Sound money."
Judge R. J. Graham, a well-known
j lawyer of Ottawa, Kan., was one of
the strongest Bryan men of the city in
' 1S3G. He served as justice of the
i peace by appointment of Gov. Leedy
; and was nominated by the fusionists
j for the same office a year ago. Judge
I Graham has campaigned all over
Franklin county for fusion. "The
only question of importance to me in
I this campaign is the question of 'ex
I pansion,' or as the Democrats are
I pleased to term it, 'imperialism. On
i this question I am fully in accord with
I the present administration and have
! been from the beginning. We have as
j much right to own, control and gov
: ern the Philippine Islands as we have
i the territory embraced in Texas or
I that acquired by the Louisiana purchase."
WAYNE McVEAGH
CANNOT
Wayne McVeagh, whom Presi-
dent Cleveland appointed minis- :
ter to Italy, has decided to sup- y
port McKinley and Roosevelt
His reasons are given below:
"The controlling reason A
the unwillingness I feel to 1-'
trust the government of the
country to the men who cow
represent and control the Jem
ocratic organization, standing as
they do upon the Chicago plat
form of 1896. I fully appreciate
the desirableness of having two
great political parties to either of
which the destinies of tMs great
and growing republic ean be
FORriERCONGRESSriAN
PAGE FLAYS BRYAN
.' -
Ex-CongTessn:in Charles H.
Page, Provident, K. I. : ' "What
choice have I except McKinley?
There are candidates besides Mc
Kinley, but. ?-"guess I wont have
to look far,
"Bryan-i know Bryan. That's
why I wori't vote for him. I am
just as -jood n Democrat as I
ever war( but Bryan is" no Demo
crat. ,7 was with him in Con
gress. I knew him there, and I
watched then all the popuiistic
trick?, he had.
"I am against Bryan because I
"McKINLEY SOMETHING MORE
THAN A MAN AFTER AN OFFICE"
James S. Evans, Chicago, 111.:
"I come of a long line of Demo
crats 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 of a member of my
family, for the Republican Na
tional ticket. It seems to
nORE niCHIGAN
RALLY
Professor Ferris S. Fitch, Pontiac,
Mich., formerly chairman of Demo
cratic county committee, and founder
of the Post: "Bryanism is revolting
to me. The maintenance of the honor
and credit of the nation is as incum
bent on every citizen to-day as in
1896, when Democrats who preferred
the integrity of the old Democratic
party and the welfare of our common
country were compelled to vote for
McKinley."
G. J. McClintock, ex-mayor, Laings
burg. Mich.: Prosperity.
William Johnston, hardware mer
chant and Populist, Leslie, Mich.: "Let
well enough alone."
James Nesbitt, Schoolcraft. Pros
perity. Dr. S. B. Snyder, Fulton. Pros
perity. R. H. Buckhout. Kalamazoo.
Quibbling of Bryan.
Benjamin F. Rowe, Kalamazoo.
Expansion.
Hon. James Powers, Scotts. Ex
pansion. Frank J. Milliman, Scotts. Ex
pansion. C. J. Daniels, jeweler, Athens,
Mich.
John Broad, Harbor Springs.
Good times.
Dr. S. S. C. Phippen, Owosso. Is
against free silver.
Chas. Hamper, Owosso, chairman
Democratic-Silver Committee Shia
wassee County. Left the party be
cause they endorsed Democratic
platform of 1896.
C. H. Hudson, merchant, Mar
cellus. Henry Allen, Vicksburg.
Bird Williams, Vicksburg.
Jay Williams. Vicksburg.
Fred Prolo, Vicksburg.
Philip Prolo, Vicksburg.
George Smith, old soldier, Marshall.
COLONEL MORTON, DEMOCRAT,
IS AFRAID OF BRYAN
Colonel Morton of Fargo. S. D., an
old-time Democrat, is out against
Bryan. He was once on General
Sherman's staff during the civil war
and a few years ago was chairman
of the Democratic State Committee
of Minnesota. He is now one of the
leading farmers of South Dakota.
He says: "I note that the Demo
cratic press throughout the country
i3 claiming the many Democrats
who voted against Bryan in 1896 are
lined up for the free-silver advocate
now. I don't know how it may be
elsewhere, but it is not true in this
section. I have been a Democrat all
my life, but the free-silver heresy
drove me as it did thousands of
other life-long Democrats to the
support of McKinley. The farmers
of the West cannot afford to have
a change in our financial conditions,
and with the election of Bryan and
a Democratic Congress of course
I mean both houses of Congress be
ing Democratic a change would be
Inevitable. That it would be suici
dal for our people of the Northwest
to hazard even a remote chance of
a change is evidenced by the fact
that to-day our farmers can borrow
on their rich acres frcm 40 to 50 per
Iff
SUPPORT BRYAN
safely committed, but, in my
judgment, the Democratic party
does not at present meet that re
quirement. .
"It seems to me the present
tendency of President McKin
ley's mind as to a foreign policy
can be discerned in the true
American policy he is now pur
suing 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."
do not believe in denouncing the
Supreme Court; because .1 be
lieve 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,
a:e 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, under
stand." me to be the very acme of insin
cerity for a Southern Democrat
to preach about individ
ual liberty, the right of the gov
erned to be consulted about mat
ters of state issues. A
Southerner by birth; in politics
a Democrat; an American by ths
grace of God, I shall, in the ab
sence of a Democratic nominee,
vote for William lac Kin ley be
cause he is something more than
a maji after an office."
MEN
TO REPUBLICANS
N. W. Newhouse, editor Stanton
Clipper, Stanton. Is for expansion.
W. E. Lear, Grand Ledge, Silver
Republican, 1896. He has a boy in
the Philippines.
John Simpson, Grand Ledge. Says
times are good enough for him.
Thos. Wade, Fennville. Money
question.
William Truax, Wayland. Ex
pansion. David F. Hunton, Grand Haven.
Tired of 16 to 1.
E. E. Bostwick, Union City, Mich.,
formerly state senator: "A man who
accepted a commission in the late
war should stand by the results of
that war."
A. R. Barrett, Union City, Mich.,
formerly an officer in the twenty
second Michigan volunteers: "A na
tion to be vigorous and strong must
expand, and the flag should not
cease to float over territory which
rightfully belongs to the United
States."
Curtis Morrell, Union City, Mich.
"Bryan's ideas in regard to finance,
if carried out, would paralyze indus
tries, and the country would suffer
untold misery in getting to another
monetary basis."
M. E. Blair, Union City, Mich.
"When any man, or set of men, pro
pose to pull down the stars and
stripes from any land that comes to
us by purchase or otherwise, he nor
they can have my vote. I believe
in letting well enough alone. We
are, in a financial way, all right,
and I will vote to continue existing
conditions."
John Cooper, Union City, Mich.,
lifelong Democrat: "McKinley will
administer the affairs of the govern
ment in a satisfactory manner in
the future as in the past, and it is
extremely bad policy to make a
change at this time."
cent of their value, at from 5 to 6
per cent interest. Four years ago
the prevailing rate was 8 and 9 per
cent, and loans were much more fre
quently made at the latter rate than
the former. Mr. Bryan is a young
man of ability, a young man of
promise; and while I respect his
powers of oratory, I should not care
to be a member of a firm in which
he managed the finances. I don't be
lieve that Mr. Bryan will be elected.
I should regard hi3 election as a
great calamity.
"So far as imperialism is con
cerned, I don't think that many of
us are worried over the situation in
that regard. I wonder whether these
anti-imperialists believe that we
should have allowed Spain to have
sunk the Texas after sinking the
Maine destroying three or four
hundred more of our sailors before
declaring war. I have a sunreme
contempt for the fellow that thinks
more of his dollars than of the na
tional honor, or fears that his cow
ardly carcass might come in contact
with foreign lead in case that he
should be drafted and sent to the
Philippines."
LEADING COAST BANKER
DECLARES FOR McKINLEY
I. W. Hellman, President of
the Nevada Bank of San Fran
cisco and Farmers' & Merchants'
Bank of Los Angeles: "I am a
life-long Democrat, but I shall
not vote for Mr. Bryan for Presi
dent. The 16 to 1 idea
if put into practice, would upset
all values. Everybody would be
injured; the mechanic and labor
er as well as the banker and mer
chant. America is today a cred
itor country and will continue
to be so unless we change our
monetary system. Let the ratio
of 16 to I be adopted and it will
drive out what gold there is here.
Our securities will be sent back
from abroad to be sold here in
immense sums. One crisis would
follow another. Manufacturing
interests would be greatly in
jured; labor, which is now in
W. A. Paulson of the New York Life
Insurance Co., New York: "Republi
canism stands for all that will benent
trade, commerce and the industrial
welfare of the entire country."
Morgan Green, cashier of the Bank
of McKenzie, McKenzie, Tenn: "I
will cast my first Republican vote this
fall for McKinley and Roosevelt and
the straight Republican ticket. I have
voted the Democratic ticket for thirty
years without a scratch, and have
always given liberally to the
campaign fund. I voted against
Mr. McKinley four years ago
because I believed that the gold
standard would take away what
money was in circulation. This was
what my party said would be the re
sult, and I believed it. Mr. McKinley
was elected, and all have profited by
the result. The gold standard re
stored confidence and opened the mills,
furnaces and shops and farms. I do
not propose to experiment any more.
I am going to vote for the policy that
rospered us under Harrison and Mc
Kinley. From this day I am an all
wool, yard-wide Republican."
Jay Williams, leading attorney,
Salisbury, Md.: "I could not vote for
Wm. J. Bryan in the presidential
campaign of 1S9G. I have now the
;:ame reason for declining to vole for
Mr. Bryan. His letter of acceptance
ind oft-repeated declarations cn the
subject show his desire to give us free
silver at the ratio of J6 to 1 just as
joon as he can. I have been plea-ed
with the present administration, with
"he progress we have made under it,
with the present splendid financial
condition of this country."
W. S. McChesney, Sr., vice-president
of the Mexican Veterans' Asso
ciation and postmaster of Lexins'on,
ivy., under Grover Cleveland, will sup
port McKinley in the presidential race
this year. Mr. McChesney ha3 been a
consistent Democrat for years and was
!ed to take this step by Mr. Bryan's
attitude on the question of "imperialism.''
He says: "The soldiers and honor of
our country should fohow the flag. No
patriotic citizen can fail to support the
party that is for the prosecution of
the struggle to the end. We veterans
are for fighting it out when we begin.
When the Philippines are brought un
der control and the honor of the flag
vindicated it will then be time enough
to talk of the kind of government
they can have."
John F. Moors, Fall River, Mass.:
"I am a sound money Democrat and an
anti-imperialist. Let the nation
dream great dreams, let it seek high
ideals, but let it not forget that the
rule of 70,000,000 people is a mighty
responsibility, not to be idly entrusted
to a young man with hallucinations,
who always appears with a cure-all.
Do not Bryan's managers smile as he
changes his bait and draws into his
net the anti-imperialists?"
John F. Vaile, Denver, Colo.: "It
is manifest that the present Democrat
ic idea is not bimetallism, but infla
tion, with fiat inflation preferred.
True bimetallists look to the smelters
and the stamp mills, and not to the
pulp mills, for money material."
W. H. Bright, formerly of the Daily
Times, Portsmouth, O., who has been
an active Democrat for many years:
"Prosperity."
Col. James Matlack Scovel, of Phil
adelphia, the veteran of many a
Democratic campaign: "The admin
istration Is all right. Bryan is a dem
agogue." John Gregor Olson of Fort Ransom,
N. D., one of the brightest young
Scandinavians in the country, has
abandoned the Brj'an cause. Mr. Ol
son Is a teacher and farmer and is an
influential member of the community.
Prosperity and expansion.
J. E. Defebaugh, editor American
Lumberman, Chicago: "Mr. Bryan is
well suited to the party and the prin
ciples which he represents. His
prophecies, and even his absolute as
sertion of four years ago, have been
proved false, but he learns nothing.
He would subject the Supreme Court
to executive influence wielded by him
self; he is the apostle of every finan
cial fallacy; he is the champion of
every foolish or dangerous dogma; he
would be the promoter of business and
social anarchy. Such principles, such
a party, and such a candidate, I can
not support."
Ex-Assemblyman Lyman W. Red
ington, of New York, a bred-in-the-bone
Democrat: "The Philippines are
legally the property of the United
States and any of its natives opposing
our sovereignty are rebels. Hence I
maintain that legally, " morally and
commercially our Philippine policy
must be maintained and the Democrat
ic party defeated in the campaign."
S. L. Smith, mine owner, Detroit,
Mich.: "Four years ago I thought i
Bryan was sincere. Now I think he ,
has proven himself an arrant dma- j
gogue. I am a Democrat and Mr. Jas. j
H. Eckles, President Cleveland's
Comptroller of the Currency, has ex- I
pressed my viewa to a nicety." i
good demand, would suffer.
"Another objection to Bryan is
that he is not a Democrat.
"I am a moderate expansion
ist. Without expansion I be
lieve that this country would
stand still, just as any large cor
poration does which does not ex
pand and keep up with the times.
I believe in holding on to every
foot of land that the American
flag flies over, and would not
give up one bit of it.
"California has been much ben
efited by this expansion. Our
trade has grown and is growing
continually by reason of the pol
icy of the present administra
tion. I believe that this trade
will keep on expanding if Mr.
McKinley is re-elected. It would
be lost if Mr. Bryan were
elected."
C. M. Kimbrough, of Muncie, Ind.,
general manager of the Indiana Bridge
Company, one of the leading manufac
turing institutions of the state: "Bry
an's insincerity. Believe in letting
well enough alone."
Judge II. H. Trimble, one ' time
Democratic candidate for Governor of
Iowa: Favors sound money, believes
in expansion and says that there is
nothing to Bryan but talk.
W h i 1 e Governor Roosevelt was
speaking at Victor, Colo., and the In
terruptions, hoots and shouts for
Bryan were frequent, a tall, brown
faced man arose, walked to the plat
form, faced the audience, raised his
hand for silence, and said: "Four
years ago I voted for Bryan. I have
been a champion of silver for a long
time. I believed in the doctrine, but
I tell you now I aiu done with it all.
This year I vote for McKinley and have
done with you cowards and curs."
There was not a hiss, jeer or shout in
derision. The man, in reply to the
Governor's question, said his name was
Foulke, that he lived at Victor; and
then left the hall.
William Crotty, Burlington. Kan.,
fanner and stock raiser: "Bryan's elec
tion would be disastrous to the business
interests."
AFRO-AMERICANS
FOR McKINLEY
The undersigned members cf the
National Afro-American Press Asso
ciation very much regret that the im
pression has gone abroad, from the ac
tion of the association, that the asso
ciation is unfriendly to the 'adminis
tration of President McKinley. This
is not true. It has been the uniform
poiicy of the association not to com
mit itself to any partisan indorsement
as an organization.
The undersigned members of the as
sociation, who constitute more than
five-sixths of the membership present,
unreservedly indorse the foreign and
domestic policy of the national Repub
lican administration, and believe that
the best interests of the country at
large, and the Afro-American people
in particular, will be served by a con
sistent support of McKinley and
Roosevelt in the coming election:
Cyrus Field Adams, The Appeal,
Chicago, 111.
T. Thomas Fortune, The Age, New
York City.
W. H. Steward, American Baptist,
Louisville, Ky.
George L. Knox, The Freeman, In
.dianapolis, Ind.
John C. Dancy, A. M. E. Z. Review,
Charlotte, N. C.
D. R. Wilkins, The Conservator,
Chicago, III.
J. W. Wheeler, The Palladium, St.
Louis. Mo.
I. B. Scott, S. W. Christian Advo
cate, New Orleans, La.
W. A. Pledger, Age, Atlanta, Ga.
J. H. Deveaux, Tribune, Savannah,
Ga.
J. Chavis, Express, Dallas, Tex.
C. II. Handy, The Afro-American,
St. Louis, Mo.
T. T. Allen, The Forum, Houston,
Tex.
L. T. Fox, Preacher-Safeguard, Kos
ciusko, Miss.
J. R. Marshall, The Bee, Paducah,
Ky.
R. R. Wright, College Journal, Sa
vannah, Ga
Recorder, Indianapolis, Ind.
Christian Recorder, Philadelphia,
Pa.
H. T. Kealing, A M. E. Church Re
view, Philadelphia, Pa.
James Lewis, Republican Courier,
New Orleans, La.
J. Q. Adams, The Appeal, St. Paul,
Minn.
J. P. Green, The Bee, Washington,
D. C.
W. V. Penn, The Appeal, Louisville,
Ky.
SILVER REPUBLICANS
RETURN TO THE FOLD
Col. A. W. Hogle; Capt. A.
McD. Brooks, Teller candidate for
sheriff in 1899; Senator Thomas,
William E. Bates, L. A. Lang,
W. S. Mayfreed and two hun
dred other Silver Republicans of
Denver have organized a
straight-out Republican club and
will support the administration
of President McKinley. Their
reasons are:
"The Silver Republican party
cannot live beyond the present
campaign. The Democrats now
use its friends, not to advance
the cause of bimetallism but sim
ply and only to elect Democrats
to office, and in Arapahoe county
to elect a ticket that is not cred
itable to any party. We, there
fore, hereby unite to form a re
united Republican club in Ara
pahoe county to assist in the elec
tion of the Republican ticket thi3
fall."
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