, 1896-10-09
REPUBLICAN LEAFLET NO. %.
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= No feature of the campaign is more worthy of careful considera- .
+. ton by voters than the methods by which The popunst-democrats have .
e attempted tt obtain support =
. Fraud, deceit forgery, and appeals to passion have been their stock .
= in trade. From the beginning of the campaign, inhammatory appeals to =
= prejudice and passion. attempts to array CITIZEN against citizen, false "
. hood, fraud I'M forgeries' have been the chief weapons of the me at the =
= head of the silver movement /"
= Processing tina. the campaign IA carried o for the benefit of the .
= masses they have been forced step by step. to admit that it isl managed =
" and pad. for by the silver mine owners. Absolute proof that the silver .
. kings of the Rocky mountains are subscribing millions to this move :.
" ment has been produced and made pubNc. and finally Senator Jones, .
= the head of their campaign. admitted in a recent interview that their =
. money came from the silver mel. -.
Another evidence of the absolute dishonesty of the practices of =
= tons which they have set ahoat and kept in circulation. One of these =
. was a Ieafet, THE Grip of Gold" which purported to give ar extract .
. from the London Financial News saying that the adoption of free DIN (.
= age by the United States would insure the commercial supremacy of "
= this country. An investigation showed the publication to be absolute =
= y false, and the editor St denounced it. Nevertheless its circulation~
= continued. the date being changed to an earlier n when those max
ing use of it say that they had been driven from the false position 1t =
y first taken. To substantiate the last named publication Congressman
Z" Cofeen stated that he had himself quoted the article in congress, but +
$ an examination of the speech in which he referred shows that his quo =
= taton is not identical Or closely similar to the n in question. =
= Finding that this forgery would no longer fool the people, another $
= form of a letter addressed to Hon. R. [. Bel, of Fort Wayne, Ind, pur-*
= porting to come from a Wall street republican, in which the working =
" people of the United States were spoken of in the most contemptous =
terms, and the statement made that the republican party intended to re- .
I" duce them o a state of absolute subjection and place the control of tar i.
if. finances and the general government in the hands of bankers and .
wealthy men of the nation. This letter was dated I'll Wall street, New "
" York" and signed j. Francis Forsythe" An investigation showed /.
. that there wa n such number as I'll Wall street" and nc person of .
y that name could be found. When the forgery and fraud became appar- =
" emit. the date of the letter was changed to ii Wall street" and it was =
kept in circulation. This proving no better the date was again chang
:" ed to 10 Wall street" And o the mn who are attempting to deceive
= the people go o lodging from pillar ITO post, issuing forged and fraudu +.
lent and untruthful statements to excite the prejudice and deceive the =
P" voters.
= The latest effort at'decepion, however. is The most to be condemn =
ed, because it not only offers false statements to the public, but ats
t" tempts to induce the masses to themselves become falsihers. This is the =
/" statement that thousands OF voters of the country are not honest in
their professions o. friendship for Mckinley. Populhtdemocratic lead .
" es constantly assert that the laborhng men who are wearing Mckinley y
badges and asserting their loyalty to him ire lying, and that they in s
3 tend to keep up this deception Until election day and vote against him. .
This Impeachment of the great masso o the American voters is a a
= insult to them. 1t insists that hundreds of thousands of men who are =
announcing themselves for the republican candidate are fostering a sy-*
= TEN Of deliberate fraud and falsehood. Even the populistdemocratic g
candidate for the presidency himself openly advises this. In his speech y
at Toledo. Sept @ he said: Let him Uhe voter) wear the opposition
' button If ne Will lei him contribute to the campaign fund if he will, but =
let him remember that there is on day in the year that he is his own =
republicans every day in the year if you will just be democrats OF y
election day? .
" Here is the essence of the entire campaign. Deceit, fraud, lying .
. confession of absence of manhood and integrity are all consolidate y
ed in this single sentence of the leader of this campaign of deceit. !.
The popuHst-democratic campaign has been of shams and hy- =
pocrisy, fraud and forgeres from the beginning. Mr.. Bryan's appar- 8
= emily impromptu speech with which he captured the Chicago conven- q
ton a afterwards shown to have been prepared and carefully re- .
= hearsed fol this occasion, and that the most prominent feature of it.
= the striking sentence with which it concluded-he had actually ppr
prhted from another. t.
Thus the campaign. which began with deception and appeals to pas- .
. sion, is now being closed with advice to the people that they lay aside =.
the manhood and selfrespect which has always been the glory of Amer .
= icn citizenship. and join with these leaders in false statements and .
: false professions as a fitting finale % the attempt ito enrich by national !.
: action a few mflionaires and scheming politicians. whose money and 1.
> fasehood and forgeres have been the handspring of their campaign =
What do the voters think of such men? .
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