The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1896-07-18
MIR. BROOKE is HAPPY.
He Sends Greetings from the Rockies
to the AlIeghenies.

WHITEHALL, Montana, July 4
l feel greatly rejoiced and proud over
the result Of the District Delegate
conventions recently held in the
great little mountain State of West
Virginia. 1t comes like greeting
from the Alleghenies to the great
Rocky mountains.
Should the National Convention
which will convene in Chicago on
Tuesday the 7th "a lucky number)
give us such platform as indicated
by the democrats of West Virginia,
with a western man at the head of
the ticket it will insure success in
November though our party may be
divided into two factions, one the
self styled honest money party; the
other composed of unterrified Jefler
sonian Democrats who honestly be-
lieve that it is the government stamp
that creates the value of money, and
knowing that our American silver
dollar has that stamp, that it is
the legal dollar of the Constitution.
Every Jeffersonian Democrat as well
as the honest element in the Repub-
lican party will rally next November
to the rescue of the silver dollar Of
our forefathers. II was good enough
for them, for us, and we will make
it good enough for those who follow
us. During my residence now over
30 years in Montana hundreds of
miners have informed me that it cost
more to mine silver than gold. The
cry for honest money was inaugura-
ted by parties holding bonds and
mortgages payable in gold. Their
object was to destroy the parity be-
tween silver and gold, thereby de-
stroying the value of all kinds of
property. In 1870 the average of
each farm product per year was
1920, in 1880 it fell to 1852, in 1890
to 1854 From 1891 to 1895 Stats
tics show that the value of our farms
deprecated $272,000,0C0.. In 1890
there were ii 900 fewer farm owners
than in'S0. The value of horses in the
United States since 1880 has sus-
tained shrinkage of $47S,00O,000,
mules $40, 600, 000, cattle $50, 100000,
hogs $57, 100000, sheep $56,000,000,
making shrinkage in farm pro-
ducts of $772, 10000 while the cen
sus of 1890 shows private mortgages
on farms amounting to over six bill
lions of dollars and possibly it
trebles that amount at this date.
The above does not include the
larger loans secured by city, county,
state and government bonds, and
nearly all held in foreign countries.
There is not gold enough produced
in the United States to pay the an
nual interest and still worse but very
few farms will to-day sell for enough
to pay off the mortgage. Notwith
standing that when the various loans
were made the farms were appraised
at from three to four times the
amount of the loan.
Yes, it made me feel good all over
when l opened the New DoMiNI, of
9th and read at head of column,
West Virginia is for Free Silver
Coinage and better yet not in favor
of consulting any foreign power on
that subject.
/ have the honor of being chair
man Of a silver club here and while
number of the members are repub-
licans I do not think any of them
will vote the republican ticket.
Yours truly, E. G. BROOKE.
Loving regards to that stauch old
Andrew Jackson democrat, John S.
Hood, and all the delegates attend
ing the convention. Is John L. Nc
Graw son of my old friend Billy
McGraw who owned an iron store in
Morgantown in the early '40's and
whom l met in Kansas during the
troubles there in 1866. E.G.B.