The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-25
TIE DOODLE CAMPAIGN
or the si,vsrltts MS shown Up by the I,rg-
ister n SearAgo"A Prophecy which viii

VI III NttANts Nv HNoWh tn Ivy tht Ittg-
istsr n Year Ago"A Prophecy which viii
he fu,niich.
During the few brief weeks that the
Wheeling Register has been supporting
the 10 to ! cnusc, II has been not only
rrcklcSsly working or all the stock free
silver arguments which less than n year
ago 1t was laborlng to prove were tho
arguments 0f CrankS md fanatics" but
II has also been circulating every free
silver fabrication TINT Ia sent to Il from
the national headquarters u use In de-
cciving It's readers.
One OF the favoritc. claims set up by
the national l'opocrntic' managers and
echoed by every servilG organ In the
country, Including the eleventh hour
convert, the Wheeling Register. Is the
"poverty-strlcken condition OF the CAM
pnlgn committee" The Idea this IL In
tended to create Is that this Is q fight OF
the poor against the rich and that the
committee must depend on the volun-
tnry contributions of plain people" who
want the country flooded with hfty.ccnt
dollars
1t IN true TINT much OF the free silver
caUdpalgn has. been run on wind, but II
has not been a secret that there hns also
been and ~ now an abundance OF cash
for use In the propagation OF the hcrcsy.
It IL no secret that Mr.. Bryan md his
cause IL backed by the bonanza silver
kings whose aggregate wealth IL more
than 1--WE hundred million dollars.
OF curse the Register OF this ci,y will
Indignantly rcfutn this charge. which
everybody knows to BE- true. but It has
not been long since TINT paper WINS bust
~ exposing the hand OF the money power
that IL back OF this whole free silver
movement,
The following editorial from the Reg
ister OF. June y, 1895, only a little more
than n year ago, Is OF especial interest ut
this time:
New Secret Political Society"
THE Supreme Temple OF the Silver
knights OF America Is the latest secret
organization to enter the political field.
II has IL capital stock OF 800, 900. AS de-
clnrcd In the charter, the objects OF this
association nre to work for free silver
coinage by all legal means. to make Sill
Yer Il legal tender for NIL debts, and to
collect and diSburse money for the uc-
complement OF these objects.
but II the aims OF this association be
lawful and laudable, why resort to Sc
crecy? And why create an enormous
capital. besides collecting sums of mon
ey for disbursement? In the absence
OF an answer to these pertinent maui
ries, the Philadelphia Record says an ex-
phantom may be found In the fact that
Senator Stewart, bonanza miner OF Ne
vada, Is the founder OF this secret soci-
ETY. OF silver Knights" and In the re-
port thnt BEHIND THE AGITATION
FOR FREE SILVER COINAGE Is A
SYNDICATE OF SPECTATORS
WHO REPRESENT a CAPITAL OF
NOT LESS THAN $50. O00.0 900 OF STOR-
ED SILVER BULLION. WHO OTHER
THAN OWNERS OF SILVER BULL
ION COULD HAVE SUCH AN INTER-
EST IN ITS FREE COINAGE AS TO
RAISE a SECRET SOCIETY. with u
capital OF $lOO.OOO to promote It's sue
cess2
Sensible citizens will give this Order
OF Bogus knighthoOd and It's Supreme
Temple OF Silver u wide berth"
This is a sample OF the good work the
Register was doing In assisting 10 kill
the silver craze" and by the why the
above editorial appeared In the SAINT is
sue OF the paper which contained the
Washington dispatch quoting General
Watts, the present candidate for COVER
nor. as saying that the free silver eenti-
ment was dying out inEWest Virginia"
MIR. Watts evidently appreciated the
effect OF the work Of the Register.
Here ts another significant editorial
paragraph from the same Issue OF the
Register:
"Populism was short-l!vcd. To-day
1t Is practically dead. Before 1896 the
last vcstige OF It's f1lly will have been
erased from state ny well as national
statute books. Though It apparently
still possesses the balance of power In
the United Stntcs senate, 1t will un-
doubtedly be absorbed In the silver
craze and both be buried in the same
grave"
Thcs. were prophetic words. for what
the Register predicted will come to pass
In November. The Register vas either
insinccrc a year ago or 1t Is inslncerc
now 1