Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-01-24

are Diinding mems eyes with.
you should stand on the streets O
Bloomington and tell passing travel
ers, who had never been over th,
road that to go to Beetown they
must turn west, you would be lead
Ing them astrsy not more srrel,
than Pomeroy, Devil Il Co. and s.yol
farmers" are leading men astray
who have never been over the finan
cial road. You are leading them tn,
wrong road-whence they musl
necessarily 60 through the labor
vexation and loss of money and time
in retracing their steps before they
can reach the desired haven.
SO, saying 1873 instead of 1872
was an error OF yours was it, friend
Lee. And why did you not confess
your other errors, beside which this
is q twig in the forest. You attempt.
ed to have the people believe shat
we did not "give the people the
truth" when we said Kelley had re-
tracted the "mud" about Earnest
Lloyd or Earnest Seyd having brib-
cd an American Congress with $500.
600. Why did you not correct that
error2 You attempted to have the
people think we did not "give the
people the truth when we said Thur
low Weed had retracted. Why did
you not correct that error of yours
You said that Congress passed the
characterization bill at midnight,
when we showed indisputably that it
passed both Houses before one O'Clock
10 the middle of the day. Why de-
you not correct that error You
es;a that Earnest Floyd ernest
Seyd) was sent here with $500, 600
as the agent of foreign bondholdera
to secure the characterization of sill.
yer, when we showed that he ia
known to be distinguished writer
In favor of silver money. Why did
you not correct that error? You
made use of forgery 10 the quota,
ton from Mr.. Hooper's speech made
April 9th, 1879. Why did you no,
correct that error?
You do yourself wrong, Mr.. Lee
in confessing that error as yours
That and the others crowded into
your short letter, are not your err
rors. You simply copied them from
the develish tricksters who got them
up to deceive you. That Mr.. Hoop
or made that speech in 1873 ha,
been published in every paper and
document belonging to the ring o.
secret Wall street agents, whose
head publisher is Brick Pomeroy
They pat it 1873 for the purpose o.
deception. If they should put j,
1872 and thus enable honest men te
turn to the speech and see for them
selves, they would find nat the bill
which they say was stealthily anc
hastily passed at midnight, was be-
fore Congress and, demonetizatior
clause and all, discussed time anc
again for nearly three years. 1t ii
not only so published in their papers
but their fools ana tools in Congress
repeat the quotation there under tht
same date. In the Oongressiona
Record OF November 9sh last, Con
gresham Riddle, after he had beer
corrected as to the Earnest Lloyd
olap-trap, said /: ''This extract from
the speech of Mr.. Hooper, howevs
will not DO denied, for l have taker
the pains to verify it.
AS appears from the Congressiona1
Record of April 9th 1873" He Their
gives the following as a quotation
from that speech /:
Ernest Seyd. of London, . disting uishsd write
attention to the subject Of minis and coinage afte
examining ths first draft Of this bill, made vsriou
| sensible suggestions, which the committee sdopte,
and embodied in this bill.
Here we have the example of q
man in Congress. declaring that hs
has verifed the record and that The
speech was made in 1873, and refer.
red to Mr.. Seyd as a "bullionist" ant
was snow here J" As before sale
these words -"bullionist" and "nov
here" are forgeries. They are no,
in Mr.. Hooper's speech. Riddle wal
induced, like Mr.. Lee, to quote the
extract not from the Record, bu,
from Villain Pomeroy's illumination
and thus it goes on to do greater
mischief because of being mouthed
in Congress.
MIR. Lees letter above says tina,
il the characterization bill was passed
son purpose" it must have been done
in the interest of the bondholders 9. p
On the contrary it was done against
the interests of the bondholders. Put
on your rejecting cap, Mr.. Lee, and
see how irreconcilsble, how stupid
such On assertion isl When tho de.
monetisation bill passed, silver was
81 per cent. higher than gold. Would
the bondholders say, "Gentleman
Congress, please demonetizs silver
Well give you 100000 brought
here by ERNEST Floyd" If you will.
We want you to do this so that we
oan': take 81 per cent. more for our
bonds than if we are paid in gold.'
Those were worry generous and con.
siderate bondholders, weren't they,
Mr.. Lee? No the demonstration
of silver was not even asked for by