The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-24
JONES' LAST CHARGE.
Ills Talk OF Coercion OF Voters Faise--Tho
Voters Know n Ia False,

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Philadelphia Press: Chairman James
X. Jones, who comes from n state held
for the Democracy by coercion and fraud
has had the unutterablc assurance to
send out a circular declaring that 1.-THE
great corporations. with scarcely an ex-
ccpt!on, and many OF the large employ
ers OF labor In the United States are en-
their employees into voting ut the ap-
preaching election against their convic-
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This Is false, and Senator Jones knows
1t TO be false, because he. Of all men,
knows what manner of campaign has
been waged for stund money. 1t has
been campaign OF education and OF ar
gument. No voter living has seen tho
like. Mckinley and Hobart will be
elected week after next, because tho
voters Of this country have been per-
suaded and won, man by man and vote
byvote, by argument, spoken and print
ed, chiefly printed.
When the campaign opened the result
was In doubt. Out of 12.000,000 voters,
a strong, vigorous and noisy minority
was for free silver, Another minority.
larger, but by no means a majority, OF
all the voters was for sound money. Be-
tween was great body OF voters whose
instincts were honest, who wanted to
do what was best for the land. but who
were ignorant, and most Of whom be-
lieved that there was something in free
silver"
Every candid man who asks himself
how his friends and acquaintance stood
on this issue last March or April will
a ORC n Ia rha st>r ~,
have been spent and well spent In per-
suading this great middle mass OF vot-
ers that sound money was to their own
personal interest. In this work there
has been no coercion, for the very good
reason that 1t would have been suicidal
folly. The heaviest load sound money
and the maintenance OF the existing gold
standard have had TO carry has been the
fact that all the great fiscal and proper
ty owners were for It. This has put
millions Of voters on their guard. 1t has
made them challenge every argument
and scrutinlze every plea. Large en-
ployers of labor" all over the country
have known perfectly well shat they
could not help sound money byesddress-
Ing their employees. Mr.. Bryan has
known this and through near 800 speech
es there Is not one in which he has not
fomented this Jealousy. and suspicion on
the part of labor.
- He has failed. The great torrent of
printed argument which has spread over
the land, u,rcaching every voter, has
steadilywDn its way by persuading men.
The country now contains small, noisy
energetic minority, shouting for free sill
yer, and an overwhelming majority OF
men who see that the gold standard Is
necessary. for them. Every savings
bank depositor. every Insurance policy
holder. every holder of building asso-
citation share and every owner of bank
account, and these number some Is, 0O0,-
600, with every intelligent .wage-earner,
has been persuaded and convinced that
what Is good for the hive Is good for the
bee. Slowiy..gbut surely, this great body
Of Intelligent American voters has learn
ed tina: no man prospers for himself
alone. and that sound money Is good for
the corporations and banks no more and
no less than It Is good for all honest,
Woodworking men.
To talk, about coercion under these
conditions Is nnmitiGated nonsense. II
. Is an insult to American voters to sug-
gest 1t. They. are free men who know
their rights, and knowing their rights
dare maintain them. In this particular
campaign 1t Is id.ot!c, because the very
circumstances OF che case have made It
impossible. and nobody knows this bet
ter than Sela tor Jones, who Is spreading
this net ofl!es TO break his fall a week
from next Tuesday, 49, ~