The Cedarville Herald, Volume 23, Numbers 27-52

V te OHIO FARMER j f V Jfer«M from mow wait .T»ua H 0 ut f.:r tin Huiilt euro of lto to ifutoeiitK'i‘3* 'Gedarvilk When your jmpsr ► itouiud with 0 a blue cro#* it u to remind you lh*t vour subscription is past due ami ** twrly settlement i# d&uml. TWENTY-THIRD Y E A R . h o . 4 2 . [TheManufacturers o f the Improved CEDARVIU.E. OHIO. OCTOBER 6. 1900. PRICE $1.00 A YEAR. President Suspenders Offer $1,500 in Cash Prizes For the nearest estimate of the popular vote of the winning candidate in the coming presidential elec­ tion. invery purchaser of a pair of President Suspenders entitled to an estimate. We sell ’em a t 50c, ■ m J i 4^ «a>ftar m O u r F a l l o o l e n s a n d W o r s t P H C A re now in stock. Correct T d c Rnp ifU /cn l) CTLIfC In Fall colorings and shapes are rich and handsome. They o l v U d colors and, popu lar styles. |!Cv>i\iiEiiI\ ullilyd are made in 4-in-hands, Derbys, Band Bows, Teaks, &c, T a i l o r , PENSIONSTOSOLDIERS Records of the Two . Partrcs * Fully Discussed, HUNDREDMILLIONB0Lt»AII3 A4<|a4 to Amount ot INnmiou, jpnld' tha « t tha H b W m I j Y Aot * t 1800. Hoke Smith- amt II, C U y Kvaa* tiou- In 'Vork h t P«ail6a llnreau. More than ^500,000,000' 1 b a magnifi­ cent amount to be paid out in less than 19 years under a single pension" act, Additional to what, was paid daring the wme' time under the regular pension sets preceding It, Thin Is the money 1 that the pensioners of the United States have had undef the act of Jane , XI, 1890, passed by a Republican.con­ gress, .and signed , ’TSy a Republican president, and so liberally adminls- ’tered by the succeeding Republican ad­ ministrations, that.there are pow 420,- 912 soldiers and sailors, and 130,266 widows receiving its benefits,, who would not b« entitled'under the gen­ eral pension law. This Is only a single evidence of the persistent care of the Republican -party for the. pensioners, - Not one. Republican is on record, | frith even one adverse vote, upon the [ventire 14 important pension measures voted upon by congress since the civil war; while 1,06? Republicans voted In fetor of these different measures. Cn Hieother hand, during the same time sad Upon the same bills, more than 99 per cent of all the Democrats in sohgress, Or .648, are shOwn by the Congressional Record, to have voted Igainst these same, pension hills; and tossthan 40 per cent of the Democrats, ar only 417, to have voted for them, “"sis contrast has' been continuous be- veeti the parties In thelf-actual votes La congress since the great war. In­ flicted such Vast suffering upon our immense armies and navies, and made the enorm.ous pension list an Indis­ pensable part of the price paid by the country for secession' and treason, caused by the Southern Democracy. In 20 years of Republican rule, neither presidents Lincoln, Hayes, Oarfleld, Arthur, Harrison nor Mc­ Kinley ever vetoed a single pension ¥111. la his entire eight years General Grant, the great soldier, withheld his signature only live times from private panlion bills. Contrast this record of 22 Republican years with the only eight years the Democrats have had since Buchanan—-for during his two terns President Grover Cleveland ve­ toed G24pension bills.. Cfoveland’s ad­ ministration acted In complete keep­ ing with his own warfare upon the pension list. Uoko Smlthlsm means to the Amer­ ican Eoldler persistent warfare upon his welfare, and' in that antagonism Mr, Smith, as is now clearly known, enly obeyed orders. In consequence of It, however, during Cleveland’s first year of his second term, 68V4 per cent of all pension claims adjudicated were rejected, or 84,662 out of 123,647.' Dur­ ing the first two years of this Demo* •rstic administration the notorious Hoke Smith board of revision dropped Mff pensioners front the roils, and induced 23,702 pensions, the vast ma­ jority for bitterly unjust reasons, a* was evident In every community where Rases pctjirred of this “kind. Cleveland's pension commissioner reported for the fiscal year ending June so, 1*95, the issuance of *6,837 pension certificates, and the rejection •f 192,355 claims of all kinds. These ate his own official figures, How mag- OCTOBER. M s s B i r tM w C M * m e n s ? I f it is, OPAL is your lucky stone, We have then in sol­ itaire anti in cluster* iinil in ttimtunatiofis with other stone*, fn Kings, Fins, Htmls and Duttons, They are the popular present for (Metier, mmm m m m T som M n **« yp^ffVfnvl 4iWW It is a pleasure to use one, M c C ollum , cK M m v J o nlficcntly they verify *nd attest tha depth and strength of the Democratic lore for the Union soldierst Contrast, with these rejections of pension claims, the dropping of pen­ sioners add the decrease in their rates of pension, by the last Democratic ad­ ministration, the fact that from April l , 1897, to June 30,1900, under McKin- ley'a commissioner of pensions, Hem. Henry Clay Evan* of Tennessee, more than 16,000 names of pensioners drop­ ped "by previous administrations were restored to the rolls, and are now re­ ceiving 82,100,000 annually. During tie past fiscal.year alone 4,362 such names were restored to the rolls. This coptrsst is even more strongly shown by the,fact that while In Cleveland's three yeata-Kl894, 1895 and 1896—only 118,044 original pensions were allowed during, the entire three years; in Mc­ Kinley's thtee corresponding years years the number Was 22,000 greater. In. Cleveland's last year only 33,749 original claims were filed, for the pen­ sioners hacDgot tired of being thrown down,. But when McKinley came In the claims that bad been held back for four years were rushed Into the bu­ reau, and In one year 61,613 Original claims, and 226,051 claims In all, were piled in upon Commissioner Evan3. In his first three months he disposed of 30,538 claims, or half as many as the Democratic commissioner got rid of In nine months preceding. With alt this increase in claims, and' all the 1 sfness growing out of the Spanish war, the pension bureau under Mc­ Kinley has gained upon 4ts work by 200.000 cases withimthe past, two years, 'so. that applicants stand a better chance than ever before ,of „having their matters disposed of promptly. In the fiscal year just ended the pen­ sion payments were near 9140,000,000, while in Cleveland's first year the pen­ sion payments were 817,000,000 less than in, Harrison’s last year just be­ fore.It During the fiscal year ending Jun* 3d 1900, there were allowed 40,637 pevr pensions alone. Despite a death rate of about 35,000 soldier pensioners every year, the total number of pen­ sioners is now about a round 1,000,000, or 25,000 increase under McKinley and Evans over the number that Cleveland left upon the rolls. The pension payments last year were over 920,000,000 more than in either of Grant’s first or second term*, and about as much as-the entire four years under President Hayes—facts’ that show the growth of the pension benefaction. The total pension pay­ ments since 1866 will exceed 32,400,- 000,000, an amount without parallel la the world's history. In addition to all that has been done, the present Republican congress enact­ ed three important amendments to the pension laws. That of April 18, 1900, provides pensions for the Spanish war, even though the beneficiaries may have been southern soldiers, thus practically confirming In the laws the truth that tho Union ! b a t last fully reunited, The act of April 23, 1900, makes ample additional provision for pensioners of the war with Mexico, The act’of May 9, 1900, known as "the Grand Army bill," makes even more liberal the great Republican law of June 27, 1890, and Is expected to add thousands to the pension rolls. Sec­ tion third of this act, upon the recom­ mendation of Commissioner Evans, approved both by Secretary of the In­ terior Hitchcock and President Mc­ Kinley, Is alone expected to add to th i benefits of soldiers’ widows about 13.600.000 every year, and to Include in Its generosity 35,000 to 40,000 widows At our soldiers. Upon these records the Republican party rightfully rest* Its claim upon the generoaity and support of every soldier with a particle of gratitude In his heart, and every friend of such soldier, particularly when considered In contrast with what the Democratic party When In power has done for the soldiers, and lta continued obstruction to every endeavor to secure full jus­ tice from the United States for lta defenders. ;n;lim 'fljfa"in OUR COOP TITLE, Maw#Mid ffsyan in ttm «»» Wgfcts *• tm *** tn ifipMss** What la there back of Bryan’s re­ peated remark that the United State* ha* not a good title to the Philippine*? Doe* It mean that “if President’ he will have hi* attorney general give an opinion that will take tire American American troop* Away mid Mrrender the Islands* was not this *«**«*' lag foreshadowed weeks ago by to t- ton Baler Jones, chairman of the De» ocratte National committee, when he waa asked whether Mr. Bryan, in the event of hie election, would order American troop* to fine*? Hi* *»»wef wa*s troop* tie r* in *h»fifc f «ne**w*c«J bring them away in ahiim. J * hJJ® wo more right to **ni toldiir* there than w* hat* to **ml them to hght *t»f »ov#rem*tt to Centre** ha* never * " ^ [ ^ 1 1 1 1 treeeretien «f war * j * * L ^ * S M g i * t * * *** j * * * 2 2 f 5 ! w m i n * j - m « # § * * * * M I L I T A R I S M .” MR. BRYAN'S MISREPRESENTATIONS OF THE ARMY BILL. tt ,\Va « t’HMaril After AaalaaldoV Ito. hellion Had Hrnkan Out, and W « b Adopted b - h M»J rit* Which Included Mao*- Patriotic DtmvoNih, "A Republican house of representa­ tives formed to do his (McKinley's) bidding passed a bill" for tbe army Increase to 109,000 men, is Bryan’s identical language in a recent speech about the "large, military establish­ ment," The record shows that the In­ crease was reported by the entire mil­ itary committee of the senate, Demo­ crats and Populists included, and that .the senate voted for it 65 to 18, Includ­ ing all the leading Democrats and every ropullst but’one. In the house the vote was 203 to 32 In favor at itr- proof that roost of the Democrats ‘ajirl Populists supported ’ this measure, which Bryan attributes to a Republi­ can house of representatives, as if it were partisan in place of patriotic. One more misstatement, either through ignorance or intent, In the same brief paragraph, Is Mr, Bryan’s statement that "Uds was done after the treaty of peace was signed and be­ fore hostilities broke out in Manila." Every school boy. In Atacrlca knows that “hostilities broke out In Manila", on February 4, 1899, with the first shots from Bryan’s friend Agulnaldo, while It la the official record that the Increase of the. army was made upon a bill not reported to tha senate until BRYAN’STHREAT^ I M P E B I A L T S H Made In :$ q 6 , It Stands Good This tffiwr. NOW DEFINED BY PERRY BELMONT FOR DEMOCRATS. < ! ..... . ■••y'ffr),' - I t I t * Jodlct)*! QuMtlan, Mot Oa» ta B » ! * • » ! • « W .th* r « «m « at tin Ballst- HE DE0LAEED SOA1? MILWAUKEE, j h i » Met rr.p«r?y >« ■ J 2*»“ » In the r«ed la c Oaai|MlKn, . C o n trw m s n Vnakerr, ef 3lfl**onrl, Pram- *“ • Vm* Silver In b u t ef llrynn’* IMrctlnn — Voters W A l Do Well to Look Vitet* lo tlie William J. Bryan, ha- bla speech at Knoxville, Tenn„ on Jlept, 16, 1896, said: "If there is any oke who believes the gold standard is a .good thing, or that It must be maintained, I warn him net to cast his vow for mo, be­ cause 1 promise him it will'not bo j maintained In this country longer tthan 1 am able to get rid of it.” If the country believes Bryan, 1those who dread silver supremacy on ‘the day after his election—should that calamity occur—will take him at his word, and begin to unload. The ex­ perience of disaster tb the country after the election of 1892 will repeat itself. This will pot be politics, but business; and the old yule of "every man save himself" will be,In full oper­ ation, regardless of partisanship. Mr, Bryan Is not so open tn his sti­ ver utterances this year 's* he was In 1896: but in his speech at Milwaukee on Saturday, Sept. 8, ho declared as, follows: "Tho posltlon .of the Demo­ cratic party an’the money question is known. It has undergone no change. I Ever since the present campaign be­ gan, there has been a difficulty in un* jderstanding exactly what Mr. Bryan ' means by the term "imperialism." The j first definition which has been at- :tempted, is that of Hon. Perry .Belmont of New York, In u letter addressed to Hon. John T. McGraw, who Is the Democratto national committeeman ot West Virginia. Mr. Belmont Bays: “The Republican idea, the Imperial­ istic idea, is that all the millions ,of people in our territories and islands can. In, time of peace, be governed by congress according to Its fancy, unre­ strained by the constitution and the judicial powers. • • • Such Im­ perialism was by the Kansas City con­ vention made the supreme issue.” Here We have It Imperialism, in the Democratic mind, is not the gov­ ernment of the Philippines, but the government of the Philippines "unre­ strained by the constitution.” In re­ ply to this it Is but necessary to men­ tion three pertinent facts: First—The Republican policy is in accordance with every legislative act applied to newly acquired territory blnce the United States began its tre­ mendous march of expansion. . Second—The United States supreme Scene at the Pan-American Exposition Grounds, Buffalo, N; Y. / • M . ' ✓ V ’ . 1Ai rr" (S howing prociress on C lcctrigtt maciunckt ^T ransportation B uildings . rnon photograph taaem auq n s o o . February 24, acted upon after that { date In that body, and still later by - the house. Thus several weeks had f passed after "hostilities broke out in ! Manila." I* Bryan Ignorant of thece * everyday facts, or can't he tell the 1 truth about them? [ "Why did We need such an army" j he asks? Daring the* two full clays’ de- ► Late In the senate it was well known * and stated over again, that the main ' purpose of this authority given to the • president Was to usb the forces thus | created to suppress tho insurrection In I tho Philippines and to maintain Amer- f lean sovereignty. Tho same position f was taken in the house as well; and Jn , both bodies many Democrats who fav- | ored the bill argued that tho United 8t*t« having acquired sovereignty, f under the treaty which Bryan did so f much to ratify, they were constrained | as a matter of public duty, to give tho f president the necessary power to sup­ press the existing rebellion, In order that the honor and credit of the Amer­ ican nation might bo upheld and its authority fully sustained. That’s "why we need »ueh an army," Mr, Bryah, and You know it will enough if you would tell th* truth. Of all the trust*, the greatest in it* nOMlbllitleifor profits yet to b* reaped, is that of the ativer miners, of whom Bryan I* the profit at M to 1. His letter of acceptance pledges Mm anew to ooen the mint* to their product, a t * profit to them of more than 100 per ?ent„ with the United States govern­ ment compelled to buy their total nroducf, year in and year out, forever, S ^ u X the full evil of free silver ha* been realised, and the party permit­ ting It has been thrust out of power and into outer darknecs and gnashing of teeth. A hostile president, backed by * hrtt- tlie party, ran make perpetual the menace to stability and safety in the people’s money, it put Into power. He termtned as Bryan nhd his party would lie to shove U .to t Into opera - lion, every day they would davire *oms »aw way of iftfikting It* uncertainties ! 1*4 eontontttot dlMrre* nynn m pto* ‘III’ ............ ' The came DeOmocratlc platform that declared In tovor of the restoration of bimetaliam also declared’that, In this cc-mpaign, the <rcstoratlon of tne prlnT alplea of celf-goYcrnment found in the Declaration of Independence was the paramount Issue of tho hour.” The same Democratic platform, too, declared twice for 16 to 1 silver, while the silver Republican and Populist platforms, upon which Bryan- is just as much a candidate tor President to­ day, make the silver standard “the lm« mediate issue," and thus having pre­ cedence of tho simply paramount Bryan’s Milwaukee declaration—thus reaffirms his declaration at Knoxville, Tenn., that “thcTgold standard will not be maintained longer than l am able to get rid of It" Thus every Bryan voto id a vote to get rid of tho present prosperity conditions. The program of carrying the coun­ try for free sliver' by means of the bug­ abooofimperialism Is well understood by the Democratic leader*. Represen­ tative Dockery, of Missouri, Demo­ cratic leader in the House, and candi­ date for governor of hts state, said In a speech at Lebanon, Mo., a tew days ago, that the first thing that Bryan will do after he is Inaugurated Presi­ dent will be to write an invitation over the door of every mint in the United Bute* to sliver and gold to come and b* coined free, without limit, at the ratio of 16 to J. That’* for the South and West, in the East there thing* are kept concealed. INSULT TO SOLDIERS. Are our American whiter# mere mtt- eenarle*, a# Bryan Insinuate* that they are? Whether In the regular* or vol­ unteers, the boy# In blue of today are Just a# patriotic #6 their father# of 86 year# ago, although not #o numetoa# by 1 In 29, At Milwaukee, Bryan, talk­ ing to the Germans, as he supposed (but the German# were too patriotic to listen to him), got off the gag he has repeated so often that the Republican party "would take their ^ n s away fromthem for service in the Philip­ pine#" and apprere them "by leaving a gold dollar In their pocket” If thi# j* not a doable Itumlt to tha readier* m >4 thrir father* alik#. than th* B*«- Bai i& tmq* ha* tot* H* court backs* this up with exhaustive and overwhelming authority. Third—The issue of imperialism, as defined by Mr, Belmont above. Is again before the national courts. if the Republican policy is uncon­ stitutional, therefore, it will he so de­ cided, and reversed. It the courts shall hold It to be correct, then the Democrats will be constitutionally bound to abandon their present posi­ tion, drop their Imperialistic argu­ ment, and obey the court. Hence, It follows that Imperialism 1# p. bogus issue, because It Is not on* that can be settled by the people at the ballot box. It Is a question fpr the Judicial branch of the government, not for the legislative or the executive. The election of Mr, Bry*n would do nothing whatever to Influence the de­ cision that the courts will give. Im­ perialism is, therefore, no mors an issue before the people than Is any other judicial question now pending in the supreme court of the United States. But let us remark that BryanlSm, while It is not before the supreme eourt, is a menace and a threat against the supreme court and the power# con­ ferred upon It by the Constitution of the'United States. I r -n"mi■ -iT- ■ f TWO MR8SAOE8 ftam th* Vi*r Kn*t i« lha AtftSrt*#* feaptoi Hon. John Barren, former minister of th* United States to Biam, la now making speeches in the Republican campaign. In the opening one la New York city, he riveted th eattentlon of his immense audience by two me*s«c«l which he brought from the fav rest, The first of these is from the King of 1Siam, who said: j "Go back to the American people and tell them that I, an Asiatic mon­ arch, speaking almost the saw* ton* image as th* Filipinos, having the name blood in my veins, and knowing the hopes and Impulse* of the preple of Asia - go hack and tell them that I welcome Amerton to th* Philippines and th* far east, ta » great and good power,* Th* Skmsre arenareh iaw h fg f th* Jt y ruler over millions of people* whoso kingdom Is as prosperous as is Japan. Important as this message Is to the American people, the second one brought by Mrl Barrett surpasses it, because of the mournful interest which 6urrounds .it. It is n message from a Nebraska colonel, but not one like Colonel Bryan. I t is from the dead Colonel Stotsenburg. It was his regi? ment which was on picket duty when the Filipino Outbreak of February, 1899, occurred. It was one of his men, a. resident of Lincoln, who fired the first shot when the Insurgents tried to break through our lines. Colonel Stot­ senburg led a charge against the rebels and fell roortaly wounded. As he lay there,.the death dew on his pale brow, realizing that the end had com^ h$ said: “Yea, boys, you can tell the Ameri­ can people that I, as colonel in com­ mand, knowing all the incidents, say that the responsibility for this trouble doeB not rest on the American army nor op the American government. Tell them that I said with dying breath, that wo were deliberately fired on by enemies of the United States, and that there should be no end of the, conflict except their unconditional surrender." Contrast these words of the dying Nebraska hero with those of thal other Nebraska' colonel, whose military ex­ perience was in a camp, and who de Clares that if he should >be elected president of the United States, hs would summon congress in extra ses­ sion to offer what would bo a virtual surrender to these rebels in arm* againBt thp American government. SAVINGS BANKS! ’V ■■ ■ ’~M ’■ - t ■■ DepMlta Hrnibir r t DipMlloit At* u l a i n uf PrMpatitjr, When we have good time*, the workingmen save money and put i t : into sayings banks, When dull time* oome, much of this money ha* to be drawn opt to #***t current expenses. Hence, there Is bo more certain index of the financisl condition of the work­ ing class than the reports of the sav­ ing* banka The comptroller of the currency at Washington has tabulated the figures of all the saving* banks of tbe country for the fiscal year ended June 80 last, and tor the preceding year. A com­ parison of the totals of tiie two sets of figures shows that the increase In deposit^ last year exoeeded- 3200 , 000 ,- 000, while tho number of depositors Increased from 6,fl8T,818 to 6,202,779, a gain of 614 j 96L Th* total deposits at this time ag­ gregate 82,420.601,290. , That tbe de­ positors are Working people is shown by the avenge deposits being but 4191.85, Th* gain In deposits and in the number of depositors ls not con­ fined to any section, as the following table of grin* will show: MIDDLE WEST. iGaln In tatol deposits.. . . . .868,733,291 Gain In number of depositor# 207,645 EASTERN STATES. Gain In total deposits..,,.884,221,712 Gain In number of depositors 145,187 NEW ENGLAND, Gain in total deposits....,*145,260,818 Gain In number of depositors 128,703 SOUTHERN STATES, Gain In total deposits,,.,..9*2,841,423 Gain in number of depositor* 4,956 These people are naturally interested in the preservation of the present prosperity. Hence they will not voto tor Bryan and free silver* which they know will bring on another panic like that of 1893. All of the Nebraskan’S wild vaporing* about imperialism will not change this determination. ASTOPOLYGAMY. When the Mormon church, in it* fight for “the twin relic.’* polygamy* contended that congress violated the constitution by It* hostile legislation, because congress had no right to Im­ pair the safeguards which protect tho civil rights of every citlaen, whether in state or territory, the supreme court held that the power of congress over the territories was absolute; that con­ gress could make valid act* of the ter­ ritory void and void act* valid. It i* doctrine so clearly defined by the high- act Court that' Bryan opposes. I* he ignorant or willful? Four year* ago even Bryan would not have expected that this country would he able to lend money to th* world; in fact, he declared that It h* waa defeated the people would he get­ ting poorer and poorer. He was de­ feated all right, and now the Ameri­ can loan of millions to th* English government ha* been followed by one of 820,009,90* to the German govern­ ment, and that by 310 , 000 . 00 * t* Sweden. It there were no trust* until McKin­ ley came in, how wa* it that th* Dem­ ocratic congress l i yre** *#* CUM) found m many of tkres, areordmg to th* report of it* owmitt** «* th* «ah jwd? At that tJsMb th* ItotoMKint fifid YM umhmm Mfafrjffiifiyl £ty| • * * • * * * * • « * » * * * * . J FORCONTRACTION. Democratic Newspapers Flout Bryan's ^Imperialism” Cry, WE HAVE ALREADY EXPAHDEP# nano* ltryan Stand*gor Contraction, and « BaUnquiahment of Part of ttin Jfa- • tlonal AraB—rSyrapoainUt of JDetnuorati* OpiniooMon thin Point, There is such a flocking from Bryan,. , or such sharp qrlttclsms upon him and his course by his t supportoril, , tiie southern Democratic press being par- tlcuarly notable in this respect by its ' f caustic comments upon its candidate, that It Is well to group some of these things together. The Democracy of tho Galveston' - News, for instance, Is not to be im­ pugned, yet that principal Texas organ . observes that “one thing 1* altogether . certain, and that is that we have, in' the language of Colonel Culberson, 'done already expanded/ and the fact Is known to every thinking man in - the country," The only possible con­ clusion ieft Is that Bryan’s plan means v contraction. An Iowa independent Democratic pa­ per,-the Des Moines Leader,'thinks , that “the money question is more ini- . portant, than, the colonial one." ! A great Massachusetts paper of the ' same description, the Boston Herald, \ Independent Democratic, find* "a dis­ trust of Bryan griitch overbalances any " distrust ojf McKinley. The one is im­ mediate, the other comparatively ulti­ mate. Bryan 'as president threatens the welfare of the country a t once, not only in the wild ideas he has a* re­ gards the currency, but in the incom- potency or wore* of the men he hs* about him, and oh whom w©must rely, for his administration ff h* come* into power. McKinley disclaim* altogether imperialism in lta mor© objectionable form; Bryan does not disclaim his itt- tentlon to fix free silver upon the country, and to pat lta active support­ ers into charge of the government. On striking a balance here wo think the conviction of ail conservative men, Whether they be Republicans, Demo-, crats or independents, must be of the certain and summary risk of Bryatt *# president, and that this will.be the deciding factor in their mind* when weighed against the dangers more in, the future urged against electing Me- Kittl©/.*1 B. O. Benedict, * lifelong New York Democrat, and closest friend of «X- President Cleveland, in refusing to contribute to the Democratic campaign fund, declares that thaBryahlte* "pro­ mulgated a platform of doctrines al­ most wholly at variance^ with "un* questioned Democratic principle*/’ He "would as soon thing of contributing to a lot of Chinese who have captured our Christian churches and call them­ selves regular Christians." Former Democratic United State* Senator M. C. Butler Of South Caro­ lina described the present prosperity of the south, and says that many per­ sons there "see in protection espe­ cially a very beneficial1thing to every­ body concerned." He think* that "th* Democratic party aoode ft mistake when it raised the cry of anti-imperial­ ism,” and he "don’t believe that ther* t©any Bueh a thing. As for the south­ ern people, I don’t #•© how aay Of them, especially those In th© cotton business, c&u »#© anything not bene­ ficial to them in the policy Of expan­ sion. 1 think Mr. McKinley ho* mad* a most excellent president. H* 1* thoroughly conscientious, Intensely patriotic and ha* th* best interarts of th* country, north and south, a t hsart” la a letter to th* New York Post (Independent), William B» Horn- blower, th* New York Democratic lawyer nominated for the United State* supreme court by Cleveland, pronounce* tor McKinley. He say# t y t "the most Important issue is whether our domestic affairs are to b* thrown into confusion and exposed to disaster.” H* holds that th* colonial quMtlon can wait and 1* “by no mean* certain that Mr. Bryan would to n *at* person to whom I* entreat tha imperialistic question/* At any t m it "must watt until we hnv* **ttl*4 the question of th* fitment, and the* qumtlou 1* whether honesty, Integrity and common sen** shall to tofitiod to the financial affair* of th* United Bu t* , or whether * * * ! « to*****! shall be given to tto vagaries, whim* and fallacies of the Ropullst* and Dry* antics, with alt th* resulting diMmtor and dishonor.” Not it wo»3lrrt'*ftw~Bryan or hi* Uhairmsn Jones, about the latter'* cot­ ton tale im h Thee I#wd eten ** hi­ ts,nation id the surrender of ft penny «f 1 ti e ptoMs that have mod* JG*e* ***i * si.iHionaire in four year*. —A idmtoe E m o f *H i M s f i t 3 /