, 1896-09-09
PERSISTING IN FORGERY.

Mr.. BryaH's personal organ, the Omaha
Worli-IIeTald. persists in its London
Financial News forgery. But like most
liars. it is lot skillful enough to tell one
falsrhnud and stick to it without self
nortradiction.
That sheet kept standing at the head
of it, editorial columns for weeks. both
during Mr.. Bryan's editorship and since
his retirement from control. an article
said to have been taken from the Lon
don Financial News, telling of the ad-
yantagcs free silver would bring the
United States and the losses it would
inlliCt upon England. When this bald
campaign fabrication was shown up in
cable adviCes that the Financial News
denied that il had ever appeared in its
columns the World-lIerald tried to
shield itself by claiming to have printed
TWO forgcries and that only II had
been denied. In its issue of August II
it said:
The World Herald has not saved the
original copy which was sent to us di-
rect from London. but we shall at once
take steps to procure another copy. Re-
garding the date. it could not have been
rs claimed by the Chicago Tribune, n
copy of March 10, because it first APP
peared in the World Herald February
L."
Again in itC isSun nf AupuSt GS II
tried to bolster its falsehood with this
explanations:
The article referred to by the Des
Moines Register was first printed by
the World-Hera February 1. 1896.
That article was clipped from the Lon
don Financial News by an employee of
the World-Hcrald. The date was not
referred to nor was a memorandum
made of the date"
And now it tells a still different story
by printing a letter from Henry A..
Coffeen. formerly delegate from the
State of Wyoming, and calling editorial
attention to it, in which Mr.. Coffeen
says he made use of the forgery in n
speech delivered in the house of repre-
%scntatives June 5. 1894, and that the al
legged extract appeared in the Financial
News of April 80. 1894. Mr.. Coffcen's
statement scarcely jibes with that of
the World-Herald that the cutting was
clipped by one of its employees about
February |. From a o p of the News
sent directly from London, o is it any
more creditable thar the reiterations
of the Forgery bureau.
The fact remains, and it cannot be
controversial. that the World-Herald's
alleged reprint from the London Finan-
cial News has been specifically and re-
peatedly denied by the editors of that
paper. 1t was denied in a letter to Mr..
Plat. a fac smile of which has been
printed in the Bee. which says that
nc such article ever appeared in the
Financial News"
The World-Herald forgery was de.
MED by the editors of the Financial
News in a letter to Funk & Wagnalls.
publishers of the Literary Digest at
New York, which pronounces the cut
ting a fabrication in precisely the same
words.
The World-Hcrald forgery was de-
MED by the editor of the Financial
News in person to Mr.. Walter Neef,
London representative of the Associ-
ated Press, who writes to the editor of
the Bee:
THE editor of the Financial News
says the article in question never ap,
peared in their columns in any form
whatever, and it's sentiments are total
ly foreign to the beliefs of the Finan-
cial News"
The World-Herald editorial finally
was specifically denied in the following
editorial note, which appeared in the
London Financial News of August 10,
1896:
I'VE have received numerous letters
from American correspondents con,
tanning what purports to be editorials
from the Financial News and which
have been reprinted in various western
papers as campaign literature" One
Omaha paper prints an article stating
it is from the London Financial News
Of March TO-" No such article was ever
printed by us and its whole tenor is di-
rectly opposed to the view we nave TAX
en- of the effect of free silver in the Uni
ted States. So far from advocating free
silver coinage we have persistently
pointed Il that it spells reputation
and the withdrawal of all European
capital"
All of the documents in the case, in
Guiding an original copy of the News
that printed the editorial denial, are
in possession of the editor of the Bee
and may be inspected by any honest
silverite who may still hesitate to be-
lieve that Mr.. Bryan's paper would not
only perpetrate such a fraud, but also
persist in repeating it after exposure.
We know 1t is too much to expect the
World-Herald to abandon its course of
imposture.-Omaha Bee.
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