Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1878-07-31
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Advocate, protesting to be the organ of
the Grcenback- Labor party, is attain.
ing q largo circulation in this State be-
caaso Of It's choapness--trenfyF oe cents.
This sheet is o VIOLIN Sleeps clothing,
It's original purpose was as an advcrtis-
ing dodge, and it still sticks to this
but its other purpose is to serve the
purposes of JOHN SHERMAN, the
partner of Mrs. jerks, and the money
power, by dividing the honest support
crs of q change of that policy.
The Irish World, a journal of stand
ing and ability, makes this charge
against The Advocate, boldly. The
editor says =
II p IN THE CAMP
We charge that Walter II. Shupc is
an INSCRIPTIONS a%dvcnturer who has
foisted himself upon tho Reform Move
ment 10 rule or ruin it in the interests
of its enemies.
We charge that he stands publicly
accused of having, as the authorized
agent Of John Sherman, audaciously
attempted to seduce the Greenback.
Labor leaders, in Albany, to ~repudiatc
the Greenback movement in the State
and Nation.
We charge that, us the mouth.piece
of Secretary Sherman, this mar Shupe
held ont a bride to those leaders in
connection with that infamous PROPOSE
ton.
We charge that Mr.. Shupe's secret
conferences with Sherman, under the
most charitable construction, were ex.
ceedingly improper in any man pre-
tending to DO a reformer but when
this same MIR. Shupe, after those con-
%ferences, came out in his paper, The
Advocate, in laudation of Sherman's
" financial relief plan, we charge that
no other rational Interpretation "a be
put upon the mans action than that
be attempted to transfer the hopes Of
tho people from the Greenback party
over to the arch enemy of that party
for unworthy purposes.
We charge that the barrels OF
money which so suddenly came into
Shupe's hands, on the heels of those
" conferences" with Sherman, look
strangely suspicious.
W. charge that Mr.. Shupc is in col.
fusion with stock gamblers, and that
he has lent the aid of his journal to
parties who are engaged in a notorious
ly disreputablc business.
We charge hal this man Shupe is
using Peter Cooper as a mask, in the
hope hal the exalted character Of
the venerable philanthropist will shield
Sherman and his discreet friends
and conceal the trickery set on loot
from public view.
We charge that Mr.. Shupe has falsi-
fed and made Misrepresentation in
attempting to offer a reply to questions
put to him in reference to the income
derived from bis advertisements.
We charge that Mr.. Shupe, in pub
fishing the advertisements which he
must have known to be swindles, and
other advertisements which in their
tendency were obscene, has furnished
the public with evidence that he has
no fixed principles in morals, and that
his paper, The Advocate, is unfit for
any Christian household.
These charges, the greater part of
them, were made in this Irish World
under date of June 80. Hero we are
in the middle of July. Yet Mr.. Shupe
has ventured to make no replyl What
are we to think ? Clearly Mr.. Shupe
does not consider the accusations
brought against him of sufficient i'm
portancc or else he does not deem it
safe to venture on n fiat denial. A de-
NAL to some of these charges, at least,
MIR. Shupe cannot give ! for he himself
is the Citness against himself. The other
charges rest upon the testimony Of
reliable witnesses.
Mr.. Shupe's Advocate, he tells us, is
now flying through the country at the
rate Of five hundred thousand a week
and this Advocate he gives away at less
than The cost Of The Uhite pdperi The
enterprise certainly is not conducted
on legitimate business principles. The
loss is certain-the gain is not certain.
We showed in our article that those
running The Advocate arc losing fully
TWO THOUSAND DOLLARS n week. Ad-
ditional light on the subject enables us
to pile up the figures tc..s3, 900 q week.
Where does the money come from 7
The fifteen hundred dollars which Mr..
Shupe borrowed from Mr.. Cooper is a
mere bagatelle. That would hardly
do more than pay for one weeks adver.
tisement of the paper at the rate he
has been doing the thing. Mr.. Shupe
was a poor q six months ago. How,
then, did he become all at once pos
sessed Of the means to hurl out his
Advocate by the half million, and give
1t away for next to nothing ? More
than Three Thousand Dollars going out
from the ADVOCATE every peek more than
comes nj Who, w ask again, bears
this burden ? Who sustains this enor-
nous drain 2 And for what purpose
is 1t sustained week after week I? John
Sherman is now in New York. II is
published that he and Shupe have seen
each other. We attach no special i'm
portancc to this meeting. The meet
ing, perhaps, has no significance. But
the things related here certainly have
significance.
Two facts are evident TO all with
eyes in their heads 10 see. One is that
the combined Money Power, with the
Railroad Swindlcrs, Land Grabbcrs.