The Portland daily press., 1896-08-20

limited coinage of silver. The bureau
has been engaged in this kind of work
for four years, sending out expensive
printing by the car load, and paying the
salaries and expenses of high-prioed sill
yer orators to spread silver doctrines
among the masses. Cham bers believes
in booming the blessings of silver like
CIRCUS and no man who is willing to
go on the stump and "organize'' voters
to vote for the unlimited purchase of
the Ontario's silver output by the tax
payers can awe him with extravagant
demands for compensation.
Gen. A. j. Warner, president of the
so-called Bimetallio League, which in
reality Is the literary bureau of the sill
YER m1uers, has, it Is said for years re-
oelved salary sufficient to warrant him
In forsak;ng all other legitimate pur-
suits, and deyoting himself exolusivel Y
to the propaganda of unlimited coinage.
Gen. Warner WAS one of thefirst men to
DO taken into the confidence of the Dem
ocratio campaign managers. That he
was deeply in the secrets of the Demo
cratic leaders was shown by his remarks
In the course of public address de-
livered in Columbus, Ohio, month be-
fore the first National Convention was
held. In an unguarded moment he gave
away the plans of Senator Jones, pres
ent chairman Of the Democratic Nation
81 OOt12AAiuuCCs w uOlA1ItsU6 16llSE 1OI
President on free silver platform. The
Teller programme WAS spoiled, and Bry-
an was nominated
WARMERS SALARY.
The charge that Bryan is paid agent
of the silver com bine has recently been
reiterated by Senator Thurston on the
stump. and has never been denied by Mr.
RrvQn &c IL
salary of $40. 900 year as President of
the B1metallio Leauge. How much more
Bryan received has been kept secret.
W. A. Clark, Of Montana, another
multi millionaire. was backer OF
Bland, but compromised on the silver
tongued orator of the Platte when be
found the latter's star in the ascendenoy.
Another active promoter of presiden
tial hgureheads In the interest of the sil
YER syndicate. who was particularly ae-
tive during the Chicago convention. ii
s. L. Hsuser. Mr.. Hauser was former.
ly resident Of Missouri, and is bosom
friend of Senator Vest and tbs deep in.
terest of Missouri In the staple product
of Montana is explained by the fact that
all but one-tenth of the Granite Noun.
| tain silver mining stock is owned in st.
| Louis.
tal' b1anu Was IoEHa1iy pun III NUM-
| nation at the Chicago convention by
Hauser's friend Vest but, like Clark,
Hauser promptly abandoned the for
tunes of Bland as soon'as he sew that the
lido was going to Bryan.
| Last, hut not least, comes l.. e. Hold
en-, of Cleveland, Ohio, who amassed an
| enormous fortune out of his holdings IN
| the old Telegraph mine in Bingham
| Canyon, Utah. He sold his interest to q
| French syndicate for So, 600. 900, but is
still interested in Utah silver mines,
and, like the rest of the silver syndicate,
| believes that the salvation of the country
depends on the coinage of his product at
the ratio of Is to 1.
This is in brief the personnel of the 40
| tive political working force of the great
silver mine syndicate which has taken
| charge of the Democratic machine and
Is backing the Bryan boom. This. of
| course, takes no account of such wealthy
| mon as st. John, the banker; SeWall, the
| millionaire ship builder and vice presi-
Dental nominee of the Democratic party
nor of the great Eastern agents of the
silver miners, nor of the Rothchilds, the
London agents of the Fair estate in Cali
fornia, nor Of the other numerous Eastern
wealthy men who are Interested in depre-
ciating the wages of American working
men in order TO enable them to compete
with the pauper labor of Europe, whose
manufactures they expect to place in
competition with American goods.
10 the silver mine owners the election
of Bryan and of free silver Democratic
House means millions. Placing the pro
duct of their mines at 81 600 600 ounces
a year. though 1t would soon be 100, 600,
| 900 ounces, an the government paying
them at the rate of $1.29 an ounce, and
granting, for the sake of argument, that
| it cost them 66 cents an ounce to mine
| it, the people of the United States would
pay into the pookets of the silver miners
S41, 600, 900 per annum, and make gigan-
tito monopolists of the very men who are
crying out against monopolies in their
platform.
This is an unduly conservative esti
mate Of the prof is OF the silver barons;
the actual figures would more likely be
S75, 000 900 per annum. 1t will thus be
seen at a glance what is involved In the
election of Mr. Bryan, not coun ting the
evils that would flow from the retire
ment of upwards of $500. 600. coo of gold,
upon which the credit of the nation is