Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-03
POOR, POOR DUPES.
Hon. A. D. White Gets Laugh
on CuIberson and Bryan.
Shows That Not Only Were They De-
ceived in Bismark's Letter,
But That the Prince Himself Made Precious
Noodles Of Them.


Ithaca. N. Y, Oct. 2.-Hon. Andrew
D. White has addressed an open letter
to Gov. Culberson of Texas, on the re-
cent Bismarck campaign document, in
course of which he says in part:
You have doubtless already learned
that both you and Mr.. Bryan have
been deceived regarding the letter Of
Prince Bismarck to you and that the
most important part of it, as first pub
lished,is forgery, the dishonest trans
lation fOisted upon your excellency and
Mr.. Bryan, containing a long paragraph
favoring immediate an independent
action of the United States in favor OF
be-mttallism, which does not exist in
the original.
"Of course / acquit you both of in
ternational deceit, believing you both
too high-minded to profit knowingly
by this forged Interpolation. What are
the American people to think of cause
which resorts to such a glarng crimi-
nal eXpedent and which has not hesi-
tated to exhibit you and your candi-
date in the light of dupes before co.
0o0,00o Of your fellow-citizens? Will this
not so far to convince them that your
party, having failed in argument found
~ ICttSsdIy " IcSOIt u the cheapest
of frauds to bolster up the cause of
silver recommendation which. for some
time past, has been gradually sinking
in all civilized countries?
Even conceding that the letter which
or without it's forged Interpolation
proves that Prince Bismarck favors
the unlimited coinage of silver in the
United States, l respectfully submit
your excellency's confiding application
to the prince, for his opinion on this
subject and the use of his reply made
by yourself and Mr.. Bryan, is possibly
the most farcical event in American
history. My reasons for this opinion
are as follows:
AS minister of the United States to
the German Empire in 1879. 1880 and
1881 l carefully observed the demone-
tization of silver in Germany which
reached its contamination during those
years. Possibly Mr.. Bryan and your
excellcncy will be amazed to learn that
the controlling and directins<agent in
that decentralization was none other
than your kind correspondent, Prince
Bismarck himself; at that time the all
powerful chancellor of the German en-
pire.
Somewhat over half of the vast
mass of silver thus reduced to bullion
was sold by the German government;
the price ran so low that sales were
stopped, and the German treasury was
left with an enormous quantity OF this
deprecated money in it's Golfers,
amounting, if 1 remember rightly, to
something over s1O0.oO0,O0O.
"Of course, the shrewd German states
men and financers from that day to
this have been looking around to see
whom they could find. weak enough or
foolish enough, to take this bullion Off
their hands. A little of it-say s., 600 900
-Germany managed to work off upon
poor Egypt under the Khedive Tew-
fix; and as Bismarck is really a patri-
otic. far-sighted statesman, he would
naturally be glad to find similar dupe
on this side of the Atlantic, and to I'M
load the remainder upon the United
States at say twice it's market value.
AS simple matter of fact, of which
was directly and officially cognizant,
Prince Bismarck utterly declined to
take part in any general scheme of
bi-metallism without the cooperation
of Great Britain, though the United
States and France Jointly and officially
united in urging it upon his govern
ment.
Prince Bismarck is, first of all, as
many of his victims besides your ex-
cellency and Mr.. Bryan have had occa-
sion to know, a great German patriot,
devoted above all things to German in
terests as he understands them. Hence
it was that he demonetized silver and
brought Germany on a gold basis: for
the same patriotic reasons which are
now leading the great Russian minister
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