The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1895-06-14
HnEueu'S HiStOKu.

Harvey, eVangel or enthusiastic
6 to l free coinage democrats, is
being exploited. He, it is now al
legged upon good authority, Is a pop
ulite way up in ranks, and was one
of the constant contributors to the
Economist. Thus it appears that
the chief authority of the Is to dem
ocrats belongs to party whose chief
aim is to disrupt the democratic
party. And yet, our free silver
friends, in some localities, want to
read some democrats out of the par
ty because some of the republican
leaders contend against the free and
unlimited coinage of silver and for
the present standard of Values
Nashville American.
w. HI. Harvey, author of Coins
Financial School, refused to take
part in the democratic silver con-
vention at Springfield, Ill, on the
ground that he is populist and not
democrat. This will be a revela-
ton, no doubt, to the silver bugs
hereabouts, who have been swear
ing by Coins book and defending
his democracy. The information
that Harvey is a populist Is given
by the following press dispatch
from Washington:
News comes from Chicago, which
is conceded to be true, that Mr..
Harvey is an avowed pOpulist and
looks to the free silver agitation as
means of disrupting the demo-
cratic party. This fact has produ-
ced CONSERVATION among free silver
democrats here who have been
swearing by Coins Financial School
and it is freely predicted that this
book will prove boomerang to the
effect to commit the democratic par
ty to free silver.-Brownsville
States Democrat.
The experiences of w. H. Har-
vey as a real estate boomer In Pu-
eblo, Col, are detailed in letter
from that place published in the
New York Sun. Mr.. Harvey went
to Pueblo and attempted to try the
methods which had been so success
full in Wichita, but he did not meet
with the same success, though he
raised and spent great deal of
money. He did, however, succeed
in plotting a piece of alkali suberb
and selling it to eastern tenderfeet
at $50 a lot. He bought the land
at So an acre. His next scheme
was to get up carnival on the or
der of those for which Memphis and
New Orleans have been celebrated.
The citizens subscribed literally
and the money was spent, but there
were no visitors from the East anx-
ious to buy lots. After two or
three more failures of this sort, he
went to Denver, and did not return
until he came back asking for sub
scriptions to stock in his paper,
Coin.
That was exactly the school in
which one would have supposed
such a charlatan as Harvey was
trained. The real estate promoter
was the greatest pest that afflicted
the West and South. Wherever he
planted his boom, prosperity with
cred and confidence fed. 1t is not
too much to say that such states as
Kansas and Alabama have been set
back 90 years by the operations of
sharpers; and we had an experience
with them in eastern Kentucky that
we would willingly forget. Harvey
has applied to his discussion of f.
nance the same methods that he
used TO dispose of his sage bush
lots; and he is imposing upon the
country at large just as he swindled
the citizens of Pueblo. The same
delusive promises of prosperity are
held out, the same tricks of mis-
statements are employed, the same
deliberate lying is resorted to when
facts are not at hand ready for dis
tortion and exaggeration. The pity
of it that his field of operation is