Rev. W. S. R. Burnette Speech

BURNETTE, SCHMIDT

Posted By: Ken Wright (email)
Date: 2/1/2009 at 12:30:34

Jackson Sentinel
April 10, 1890

(Bellevue Leader, April 3.)

Rev. W. S. R. Burnette, of Preston, and Otto Schmidt, of Van Buren, were among the delegates from Jackson county who attended the Anti-Prohibition Republican meeting at Des Moines this week. Rev. Burnette took a prominent part in the proceedings and the Associated Press dispatches say of him – “One of the prominent speakers was Rev. Mr. Burnette, a Methodist minister from Jackson county. He was a presidential elector in 1888. He said he was a prohibitionist, but first of all he was a Republican.”