The bee., 1896-10-08
The Bell Letter.

gus address of the alleged writer OF
that letter to free silver Bell, of
Fort Wayne, Ind. AS stated last
week "only the ignorant could be
deceived by the transparent
fraud. Investigation by the New
York World and others discloses
the fact that ]. Francis Forsythe
does not and never did have an Of
fee or even desk room al No. II
Wall St. No one in Wall street
ever heard of him, and letters ar
irving since the publication Of the
Canard have so annoyed the occu-
pants of the Office that they we're
returned to the post Office where
barrels full have accumulated, as
the name does not appear in the
city directory.
What a pitiful and shameful
ending ofa attempt to villify and
misrepresent the sound money
men. How it recoils upon the in
vestigators, abettors and partici-
pants. If they were not lost to all
feelings of humiliation they would
apologize to their readers and to the
recipients Of the campaign dodgers
printed TO circulate the Infamout
SANDER. The mind that could
conceive and impute to an imagina
ry writer such abominable senti-
ments regarding the condition and
ambition of the wage earn
era must be welded to the theories
he outlines so well, and IS only
masking his opinions by false rep
reservations.
But this is only sample OF the
free silver campaign work. First
the Chicago platform contains as
sertions manifestly. untrue. Then
Bryan is nominated on account Of
the brilhancy o: phrases which he
borrowed without credit, from the
speeches Of others. Thea they use
garbled extracts from speeches Of
sound money men and fall to give
their real sentiments. Then they
publish alleged editorials from the
London Financial News, which
when denied b. that paper, they
continue to circulate, Then they
procure letter from Prince Bis
marck and insert forged sentence
favorable to their cause in the
translated copy. Then they get up
a circular purporting to come from
the National Bankers Association
which proves to have been q lie in
the concrete.
Now Senator Teller quotes from
a report of a Royal commission
WHICH investigated the silver ques.
tion in Great Britain, that "the
gold standard was doing great in
jury to Great Britain, and that all
gold standard countries had stood
still while those on a silver basis
were improving and making prog,
gress." When the N. Y. Evening
Post showed that the quotation
was forgery and the declaration
Of the report was directly opposite,
Teller qualified the statement and
attributed it to another authority,
and finally stopped talking aud |
went back to Colorado.
The alleged editorial in the Lon
don Financial News turns out to
be an extract from one of Senator
CameroR's free silver speeches de-
livered in the u. S, Senate, April
IS, 1894, and which was properly
credited to him and shows that the
sentiment was his by the quotation
marks.
In its last issne the Mail nwith
its usual enterprise still farther
endorses the "yillianous letter" and
publishes a communication from
Il. c. Bell lis recipient the perusal
OF which shows conclusiyely that
he was not the "Innocent" that he
claims TO be. He says it was
"type written and was mailed in
New York and signed with a pen;
that he does not know why 1t was
sent to him, and has no recollec-
ton Of having met its author. He
never answered the letter. That
is all he knows about the letter or
its source, and you must draw your
own conclusions"
We have not the slightest doubt
that all who learn that the alleged
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