The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-31

been made to prove 81 e that Mr.. Lucken-
bach did not visit kondon in 1874; that
he did not dine With Richard Seyd;
that he did not meet Ernest Seyd
there, and have a conversation with
him; that the Bank of England did
not give Seyd 100, coo pounds sterling?
What grounds did Stevenson have
to say this sworn statement of a
wealthy, elderly gentleman, an ex-
member Of thEN4H York produce ex-
change, and n j aSpolitician or office
seeker, was a VI? He says that Prof
| McCleary.-wl6 is running for Con-
gress in the Second district of this
state, and WHO we4ld give his SOULS
salvation to go back to Congress, with
$4,000 year; instead of to the Man
kato Normal school, to teach for a
small stipend;-Halyor says that Nc
| Cleary wrote letter to Ernest Seyd's
son and that Seyd's son replied that
his father had not been in America in
| 1929" But who had seen that let
ter? And who has proved that it was
really written by Seyd's son? And
who will prove that the boy did not
| lie to save his fathers reputation
from the charge of being corruption
| ist? And if any such statement exists
| is it sworn to? And who will demon
strate that the whole thing is not a
| fabrication of the school-master poll
tician of MankatO eager to 20 back to
| Washington and its fesk-pots? And
yet on this. secondhand, ex-parte
| statement, not sworn to, it is sought
to set aside the affidavit of respect
able reputable, wealthy gentleman.
And Mr.. McCleary gives his word
for it, to the people of Minnesota, as
| an honest man, that the name OF Mr..
Ernest Seyd never was mentioned in
Congress during the debates on the
| demone tia tion of silver; that he had
searched the Congressional Record
and there was nothing of the kind.
And yet there 1t is;-yol. SO, page 1904,
April 9th 1878. Hon. S. Hooper said:
"Mr. Ernest Seyd of London, dis
tinguished writer who had given much
|
| coinage, after examining the first
draft of the bill, furnished many valu-
able suggestions which have been in
cOrpOrated in this bill"
And Senator Dawes of Massachu-
sets, gold-bug Republican, made a
speech, Dec. II. 1877, in the Senate,
recorded in the Congressional Record,
part Vol. !, p. 1875, in which he says
Ernest Seyd, seas here at that time, and
has been here since" delivering lee
lures in the United States. He posed
as bi-metallist
And David A. Wells, the famous
writer on political economy, said in
the Forum, There was man by
the name of SeM aud he was in this
country in 1s72Y
And yet MI Cleary is abandoned
enough to pretend that he has letter
from Seyd's son that he never was in
the United States Since 1856. It is alb
solutely shameful, and shows the
straits to which the Republicans lead
ers are driven to deceive the people.
And the late Rev. Gilbert De La
martyr NJ. c., told Mrs. Emery that
Hon. VIM. D. kelleysM. C., {"Pig Iron
Kelley, -"father sof the House, " told
him that he sawtIH original bill, for
the demone tizat foneef silver. and that
it scos IL, the ha,1sscfae1fg Of Ernest Seyd'
British banker, with $780, 900 of Eng
land corruption money in his pocket.
| And McCleary sweedle-pipes the Re-
publican of the Second district by
telling them that Seyd was not in
America at all since 1856. Lord
Lord. AS old Jack Falstaff says
chow this world is giving to lying"
But there stands the great fact
which neither McCleary nor the long
legged Boanerges, of Crookston can
deny, or explain away, that silver was
demonetized by a palpable trick and
fraud. A metal that had been used
as money for 5000 years, and which
was named in the constitution of the
| United States as one of the money
metals of this nation, was stricken
down, denied access to the minis, de-
monetized: and there was nothing in
the title Of the bill to indicate that
such a tremendous change was con-
templa ted-not a syllable. On the
contrary this metal, used as money
before the building of the pyramids of
Egypt, was excluded from the minis
of our country, simply by emitting the
standard silver dollar from the list Of
coins that could be coined at the
mints. Only that and nothing more.
They might just as we'll have wiped
out popular suffrage in the United
States, by paragraph in bill to ap-
propriate money to build a water
closet in the basement of the Capitol
at Washington.
And the president, United States
Grant, and James G. Blaine, VIM. D.
Kelley, Jas. A. Garfield, Allan G..
Thurman, James B. Beck, and all the
prominent men of that time in Con-
gress solemly declared, years after
wards on the floor of Congress, that
they never knew till that moment
that silver was demonetized by that
bill! And yet McCleary and foolish
Halvor say it was not swindle!!!
And then Stevenson tried to an
swer my charge that he had gotten up
the application to the Railroad Com
missioners to redslce rates Of transpor-
tation on the Great Northern simply
as trick, to boost himself into Con-
| T.