Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-10-07
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worried. They have round out Iitt 'H0
plain people Of this country have be
gun to comprehend who are on the gold
side IN yais campaign and who are on
| the silver side, and tina; the plain peo-
I pie. the people nCc Of the Four Hundred.
have discovered that the presidents and
Representatives Of nsarly, if not all, the
! trusts represented in the grea5 gambling
/ house known as the New York Stock
: Exchange, are almost 10 a man on Mark
/ Hanra's slush fund committee. Thsn
/ .6ey look about and Try to find who are
on The other side of the question. They
dnd innumerable people, workingmen
and farmers and others Who have moth
ing to give away 10 slush fund COM
mirses: they ind the bone and s.naw Of
ne land on Mr.. Bryan's side of the
question. but they look in vain for the
..rrs. presidents, th= muld-milliCnaires,
/ the representatives Of the Four Hun
dred. They are no, with Mr.. Bryan,
( the Great Commonsr, in this campaign;
/ they are al 10 be found on Dollar Mark
Hanna's Wall S.. Slush Fund Commit
lice. This worries the Four Hundred,
VINO think themselves Gods chosen ar
/ is.ccracy. They are afraid Of the mob"
as hey call the American people. And
rhsy Immediately start their paid liars
to work in the press 10 show that they
tte Four HunGred-and no, the people
OF America would be benefited by The
free coinage of silver. They do this by
publishing q lis, of capitalists. who, they
/ say. are silver mine owners. or interested
in silver mines. who are backing Mr..
Bry9n's campaign.
This falseAood was started in the New
York World several weeks ago. Now
we find it in the Wheeling IntelHgencer,
waich is late. as usual.
This tremendous "Silvsr Trust" the
existence Of wh:ch has been kept secret
from everybody except the World, is
composed Of Cess than on hundred
men" whose fortunes aggregate $685.
100000.
J. B. Haggin. Lloyd Tevis and the
Hearst estate. for example, are set down
by this gold organ as possessing together
SS500o0C0 When these three were
joined tn Interest it was chiefly in copper
mines. mex. In gold mines, and last of all.
in silver mtres. And # is bad news for
The Worlds Silver Trust that Messrs.
E5ggiu and Teyis. so far from attending
mi night meetings to further the can
ditacy of Bryan and the cause Of free
silver coinage are in reality prominent
sold men. and par,isans Of Mckinley.
To make up his total Of The s616.OOO,
600 thai is combined in a trust 10 restore
silver to the currency at Is TO 1, Mr..
Pulitzer includes Senator John P. Jones
lS25. 0C0.O0O. John W. Mackay $4,000
0o0. S mater Stewar, $4,000 OOO, R. c.
Chambers $2O.OoO,0OO, AdoIph suJrq
1920. o00.OOO. ex-senator Charles \. Eel
ION CS5.Oo0.OOO. Walter s. Hobart C1O,-
OO0.O00). Charles E. Lane CS2O,OOO,OCW,
". A. Clarke (S4O,OOOOCW and the Fair
estate (S25.C0O0OO.
II Senator Jones is worth S25,OoOOOO
mis- friends viii be rejo.csd to know that
/ his Alaska sold mines. from which he
/ has made most Of the wealth he now
( possesses. have paid him so well.
John W. Mackay is not Bryan, but
Mckinley. man.
If The World will give Mr.. Chambers
7 100000 for tn S2OOOOOOO estate with
which the World credits him, Mr.. Cham
I bers Will. it is a 10 to 1 bet, willingly
close The bargain.
Senator Stanford would have died hap
pier had Mr.. Pulitzer enriched Senator
/ Stewart earlier. for a f-w months before
IS.anford's death he was obliged to meet
ct The Bank Of California. in san Fran
cisco. a note of Stewards for $4,000
which ne had Endorsed. Where Senator
S avart is known he ranks as a poor
man.
Adolph Su,ro. Mayor Of San Francisco,
made none Of his money in silver min
ing. but chiefly on, of the Suro Tunnel,
which English and German capital con-
s-ucted His wealth is mainly in San
Francisco lands, and he has recently
come out against free silver coinage.
Ex-senator Charles y. FELTON, derived
his fortune not from silver, but The New
Almad Il quicksilver mines.
Walter S. Hobart is the inhsri,or Of
wealth. that came mostly from gold
mines. Until Mr.. Pulitzer put
/ him in the silver Trust" it
was generally thought tha, young
1-r. Hobart save his powerful
mind to horses and clothes rather than
TO absruse problems Of finance.
Charlss z. Lane is a silver man, sure
enough. only he happens nOl to be sill
yer miner but one Of 1he largest owners
of gold mines on the Pacific coast.
w. A. Clark is in copper chiefly, as
everybody in Montana and Arizona is
aware.