The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-08
SILyERITES EXPOSED.
II, r.. ShieI Shows Up the Hypocrisy
of Their Claims.

Special to the Indianapolis Journal.
LEBANON, Ind, Oct. 1.-THE soldiers
and sons of soldiers of Boone county held
a big meeting here last night, with X H.
Shiel of Indianapolis, as the speaker. MI.
Shiel said in part:
81 am informed, since coming to your
city that the Populist orator has been tel
ling you that your county has been grow.
that Won have been going backward instead
of forward Now, there IS just ABOUT as
much truth in that as there is in anything
else that these Populist campa1gners tell,
from Bryan down to the government imam
Cier on the street corner, who mas ms wire
keeping boarding house and has not done
auditor to give me the appraised value for
taxes of all the property in Boone county
Or or not You you had been going backwards. !
find ACCORDING to his ST gg sn the }9s s
7O6 695, a gain of So, 933, rs in twenty-six
years. Now, you see you have not been
getting. poorer. and that looks like won on.
derful increase in the appraised value. but
it is nothing compared with the increase or
art of Nevada, has made from his silver
mines $40 eco, 600 and Senator Jones S25OO0,-
coo, Senator Stewart making over four
in your whole county, and Senator Jones
more than twice much. Certainly you
can see why they are for the free and UNI
limited coinage of silver, and I have no
doubt If Senator Jones or Senator Stewart
were to como to Boone county to make
speech or their emissaries, Mr.. Harvey or
Mr.. Bryan, they would tell you that you
have been getting poorer all the time. |
saw an account in the New York World
Ga Democratic paper) the other day stat
ing that there were thirty silver mine own
ers who had made 1851, 600. 600. Now, while
the farmers of Boone county have made
wonderful progress, it is nothing to COM
pare with the progress made by the silver
mine owners. If Bryan were to tell the
farmers of Indiana the truth he would say
that the silver section was the enemy 8
country instead of the East. Every car
load of corn. wheat, cattle, sheep or hogs,
the products of Boone county. goes to the
enerny's country for consumption. Every
engine pulling a trainload of the products
of Boone county is turned East. hauling
the same for consumption into what Bryan
terms the enemy'S country. Who ever
heard of q carload trainload of the
products of Boone county. or any other
county in Indiana. being shipped for con-
sumption into the silver-producing terri
tory? When I first came to your county.
in 1867 before the crime of '73.' you had
but five miles of gravel road running out
of this city. and but ten miles in the entire
county. l understand that you now have
something near 200 miles. You then rode
horseback over corduroy roads; you now
ride in carriages over gravel roads. This
readily proves how you have been going
backwards If Bryan, Stewart, Jones and
Harvey can gull you farmers into voting
for Bryan and eiecting him President they
VIII make 500, coo, 600 in the next twenty
you remain where you are. What you want
is a home market for your product and
the silver bullion producer doesn't fur
niSh it,"