Birmingham age-herald., 1894-07-24
Brands the Latest Lie as It De-
 serves.
THE LIVER DOLLAR STORY
His Answer to TaubeneCk T Pr 1npt, Clear and Decisive.
 Demands Proof.
BLoUNT SPRINGS, July 22, 1894.

DLOUN July Ez, loJ4s To the Age Herald.
 On yesterday received from Fl. D. Tau beneck, chairman of the so-caled peoples party, the following, viz:
 HEADQUARTERS PEoPLE's PARTY,
 WASHINGTON, D. C., July 16 1894. { Within the last two weeks we are in re- ceipt of number of letters stating that Representative Oates of Alabama, now a candidate for governor of that state has repeatedly made the statement that the government is eoiniug silver at the present time. This morning we are in receipt of the following telegram:
 TUSCALOOSA, Ala, July 15, 1894. N. A. Cunning, Washington, D. O.:
 Oates advocates showing silver dollars mintage '94. Wire at my expense how is- sued. JAS. R. MAXWELL. With the assistance oi Congressman Pence, who dictated the following letter to the director of the mint, We tried to secure positive information whether the govern ment has or is coining any silver dollars at the present time:
 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,,
 WASHINGTON, July 16, 1894. on. R. E. Preston, Director of the Mint DEAR SIR: 1 am informed that the state- ment has been made in certain newspapers lately, and by stump speakers, that silver dollars were being coined or had been coined by the govern ment during this year, 1894. 1 am advised that certain par ties are pretending to display silver dollars bearing mintage date 1894. Will you please kindly inform me whether silver dollars have been coined during this year by the government at it's mipts, and if so how many? will thank you for full informa-
 LATE PENCE, M. c. To this communication came the follow- ing reply from the director of the mint;
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, BUREAU OF THE MINT,
 WASHINGTON, July 16. Hon. Lafe Pence, House of Representatives: SIR-''In reply to your letter of current date you are informed that the number of silver dollars coined during the first six months of the present calendar year was 4O6 pieces, all proof pieces.'
 All of these pieces were coined at the Philadelphia mint. Respectfully yours,
 R. B. PRESTON,
 Director of the Mint. To this was attached note from him as follows, viz:
 From this it appears that MT. Oates has secured few pieces coined as souvenirs, and is exhibiting same to the people of Ala bama as proof that the present adminis- ton is coining the silver purchases, under the Sherman act. Any party drlvenN>lo such deception in trying to buuco the peosN pie with few pieces of new coined silver ought to sink into the depths of infamy. Can fraud and deception go further than this? After demonetizing silver, then re- fusing to coin the seigniorage, and now trying 10 beguile and mislead honest voters by coining few pieces to be used on ths stump by few political bunco steerers.
 H. E. TAUBENECK. My reply to all of this is that never saw one of the souvenir or proof silver dollars to which he refers and did not know that they were in existence until saw tue reso- luton offered in the house of representa- tives by Pence and his correspondence with Preston, director of the mint; and, of course, never exhibited one of them, as never saw one, and never made any stete- ment in any speech or elsewhere that any silver was being coined, except fractional pieces at the Philadelphia mint, and never stated that but once, and then 1t was done to correct a false statement which was made by Kolbite speaker.
 The telegram to Cunning from Maxwell l am fully satisfied states a falsehood, as do the letters named. l never heard of such a thing before; and if Maxwell does not furnish proof of what he states, which l demand, I brand his statement as lie. Mir. Taubeneck had the effronteIy to say in his note to me that ''aDy party driven to such deception in trying to bunco the people with few pieces of new coined sil- yer ought to sink into the depths of in- fanny, etc." Ifmy party were to fall into the slightest probability, or into the in- fernal regions, the first persons it would meet would be Taubeneck and Pence, the princes of bunco stserers and political frauds. The entire story which they are seeking to magnify into great importance was matched up for the purpose of iDjuring me, and is huge lie and utterly devoid of any semblance of truth. When the 9th of August passes Taubeneck will find in the result proper response to his coarse and ungentlemanly note.
 WILLIAM 0. OATES.