Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1896-10-08

one way we should lose our pold-if wa
opened the minis to siIyer-would ha in
handing it over TO designing in1ividnaIs
who should bring silver bullion to tha
nliht D demand" gold. The open
,lilt exists merely to coin the bullion
brought to 1T and pass it back in coin to
lhe owner. The government stamp
cannot create value. Whether q coin
When stamped shall be effectual to pass
at the value 1T claims to represent will
depend upon the use it can command. In
thls respect agree wholly with the hon
orabie gentleman from Maine (Mr. Ding
leyb who opened this debate and who
now does me the honor OF listening to
me. The whole question OF maintaining
freely coined silver at "A parity with gold
Is n simply OF giving it enough to do
--sublectlng 1T TO large enough demand.
NAppiause.) Let us hear no more cheap
remuneration OF ~"creating value by
law Nobody claims you can do so.
o a legislate opportunity, and that
is all silver wants.
AS the views held by Mr.. Towne
on this matter are in direct contra
dlction Of views held by fi~nanclers
Bryan, Mrs. Lease, and Honorable
Mr.. Kelley of Webster, and realizing
that such a statement from such an
authority was damaging to the aver
age pop argument, Mr.. Kelley tries
to break the force of the article by
accusing the Reporter of misquoting
Mr.. Towne. This was promptly
denied, and Kelley was challenged
to prove any misquotation. This
he could not nor did not do, and the
matter rested so far as the Reporter
was concerned. But did Mr.. Kelley
drop it? Not much. He procured
Towne's speech in plate form and
proceeds in his foxy way to prove
the Reporter guilty as charged by
the Herald, by issuing in pamphlet
form what purports to be the speech
Of Mr.. Towne. But in this revised
edition, no trace can be found of the
following words {;
"Let Us hear no more cheap denunci-
alton OF creating value by law" No
body claims you can do so. You can
IpgisIate opportunity, and that is all
silver wants"
The plate had been carefully cut
after the word demand and the
offending words removed. The pam
phlet was then scattered broadcast
over the county, particular care
being exercised to place it in the
hands of known readers of the Re-
porter and Farmer. What excuse
can be offered by any fair-minded
populist for such an action?-yet this
is only a sample of the methods used
by the chief mogul of the Webster
populist ring! The chief reliance
of the Herald throughout the cam
paign has been forged letters, pre-
tended communications, garbled
letters, perverted figures, and mis-
quotations from Republican speeches.
Even in the last issue it seeks to de-
fend the rank wool mis-statement of
the Penny Press, by stating that
probably through a mistake the
figures were incorrect" but how
about the lying article that accom-
panied the figures A mistake may
be made in figures, but not in an
accompanying statement. The fact is
that Honorable Mr.. Kelley and his
ring followers are realizing that it is
a life and death struggle with them
to retain their power and the patron
age, and will resort to any deception
to make their cause seem just. Mr..
Loucks, in his Ruralist, justly chris
tened these fellows ofice-at-any-
price pops, and that is their true
title. Principle cuts no figure with
them,-it is office and pelf they are
after.
Such a dirty trick as the above adj
mits of no defence. This is a cam
paign where the people are Q
Determined Gudu CNCi w ooOA nO
true light, and he who endeavors to
obscure their vision is nothing but a
scoundrel. The Republican party is
not afraid to meet the issues fairly
and squarely, and scorns to resort in
any instance to skullduggery and
chicanery in presenting their case.
If the methods employed by the
Webster pop ring before, during and
after the populist convention, and the
course of the Herald throughout
does not disgust populists who believe
in principles, not pelf, it will be ex-
ceedingly strange. The Towne
speech and the Herald edition OF the
same can be examined at this office
Nv any one who so desires. All we
ask is fair play, and we have no de-
sire to resort, even in self defence,
to Singing the mud so plentlfnlly
furnished by u opponents.
For the benefit of Mr.. Kelley, we
will state that we do know what we
,ra talkinp about when we state