Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1896-09-22
EUROPEAN ELECTION MONEY

to keep the geld grip on the people
He says: Most noticeable, perhaps, Of
the many noticeable things in this
campaign is the way in which the
railroads are engaging in it. In
creasingly accustomed to exert their
tremendous power in politics., they
have entered into this campaign with
a determination, a vigOr and a union
Of concert that indicate something
more than a general sympathy with
hopes and fears of the moneyed power
to which their controllers belong
They seem to realize that b. Chicago
platform is a special challenge to rail
road rule and that the issue OF this
election will bring nearer to its con-
clusion the great question whether the
Government shall own the railroads or
the railroads shall own the Govern
nent.
How the railroad magnates feel
about the matter is shown by the |
great railroad excursions to Canton
and the universal fear of railroad en- |
ployees that they risk their places in
showing any sympathy with the Dem
ocratic candidates., but it gets Il clearer
expression in a little incidental straw
which shows how the political wind
is blowing in railroad circles.
There is to be a meeting of Demo
cratic clubs in st. Louis the 81 of
October, and Senator Jones, Chairman
of the National Committee, wishing
to know what arrangements had been
made for rates, sent his stenographer
to the Chairman of the Central Pas
senger Committee Of the Railroads to
discover. The young man came hack
flushed and agitated with the infor-
nation that there were no special
rates. 1t seems that when F.. G. Don
ahue, Chairman of the Central Pas
senger Committee, found that he came
from the Democratic headquarters he
could not restrain his indignation, but
read the lad a furious lecture on the
shamelessness of a young man OF his
seeming Intelligence being engaged
in such a wicked movement, declar-
ing the Chicago convention had been
composed Of communists, and that all
who favored its platform were anar-
chists and socialists, who we're boldly
seeking the Iuin Of this country, and
who ought to be rammed into the sew
ews; that there was not a patriot
among them, and that the Senator
himself was a political trickster who
was in politics only for money.
That mar like the head Of the
Passenger Committee of the Associat-
ed Railroads that center 10 Chicago
should so lose his temper, should so
easily play the fool, is not much in it.
self, but it shows that the railroad en-
ployees who are wearing Mckinley
buttons and going on Mckinley ex-
c~ursions and signing their names to
to the rolls of sound money" clubs
do not misuDderstand the bitter feel
ing that is reflected downward
through the Superintendents and fore
men and bosses with whom they come
in contact.
A twenty fifth ward local politician
has Deer endeavoring to assess the
minor officials in the Chicago City
Hall, for Republican funds, and has
been promptly brought to task by the
municipal civil-service commission
but in the meantime from sources
large and small and far and near the
great Hanna fund is swelling it;
gigantic proportions.
It has been a ~favorite myth o.
American protectionists, repeated veal
after year, though no free trader
could ever get a trace Of a reality
that money was collected abroad t
aid the free-trade movement here, anC
great has been the indignation worked
up over this assumed interference in
our polit' :. But here is a definite
statemer from a reliable source
which us that the raising of none,
for the Republican side of this cam
paign is not confined to the syndi
Gates, trusts, corporations and capital
lists on this side of the Alta ntic. Al
American of character, writing from
abroad nnder date of August %, 1896
says:
I have seen a subscription that ha
beer opened at Monroe & Cos, bank
ers, Paris, for what is called tn
Honest money" campaign fund
which means that money is being
collected in Europe to influence tn
American elections 1 have seen a
appeal for this fund put in the fol
lowing langua,
The main poin. is to realize you
danger and to subscribe quickly an
literally. Remember that only sixt