The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-08-15

the big bonanza for q number Of years
Is William ]. Bryan. of Nebraska. A
paid agent Of and spokesman for the
silver combine, he has not since his re-
tirement from congress had any other
visible means Of support. The richest
men in the world. the proprietors of the
big bonanzas. hire orators like Bryan
exactly as other wealthy men hire fid-
dlers, and value them about as highly.
Silver orators. like fiddlers, come in az
the back doors Of the big bonanzas and
eat at the servants table,"
This charge has recently been reiter-
ated by Senator Thurston on the stump
and has never been denied by Mr.. Bryan
although his friends say a denial will
be made.
w. A. Clark, Of Montana, another
multi-millionaire, was hacker OF
Bland, but compromised on the silver
tongued orator of the Platte.
ANOTHER MANS RECORD.
Another active promoter of presiden-
tial figureheads in the interest of the
silver syndicate, who was particularly
active during the Chicago convention,
Is s. T. Hauser. Mr.. Hauser was form
erly a resident of Missouri and is a
bosom friend of Senator Vest. MIR.
Bland was once a silver miner in Mon
tana and was formally put in nomina-
tion at the Chicago convention by
Hauser's friend. Vest.
Then comes L. f. Holden, of Cleve-
land, who amassed an enormous fortune
out Of his holdings in the old Telegraph
Mine in Bingham Canon. Utah. He sold
his interest to a French syndicate for
$5,O0O,OOO, but is still interested in Utah
silver mines, and like the rest of the
silver syndicate, believes that the sal
walton of the country depends on the
| coinage of his product at the ratio of
16 to I.
This is in BRIEF" said Vice-Chair-
man Apsley, referring to the above
statement. 1.-The personnel of the active
political working force of the great
silver mine syndicate, which has taken
charge of the Democratic machine and
Is backing the Bryan boom. This, Of
course, takes no account of such
wealthy men as St. John, the banker;
Sewall, the millionaire shipbuilder, and
vice-presidential nominee of the Dem
ocratic party; nor of the great eastern
agents of the silver miners; nor of the
Rothschilds, the London agents of the
Fair estate in California; nor of the
other wealthy eastern men who are
interested in depreciating the wages
Of American workingmen in order to
enable them to complete with the pau
per labor Of Europe, whose manufac-
turers they expect to place in compc-
tition with American goods.
SUCCESS MEANS MILLIONS.
ITO the silver mine owners the elec-
ton of Bryan and of free silver DEM
ocratic house means millions. Placing
the product of their mines at $4,000. 600
ounces year, though it would soon
be 100000, 900 ounces and the govern
ment paying them at the rate of $1.2o
an ounce, and granting, for the sake
Of argument that it cost them 6S cents
an ounce to mine it, the people of the
United States would pay into the pock-
cts of the silver miners $41,00O,00O a
year and make gigantic mOnopoists
Of the very men who are crying out
against monopolies in their platform.
This Is an unduly conservative es-
innate of the profits of the silver
barons; the actual figures would more
likely be $75,OOO,OOO a year. 1t will thus
be seen at glance what is involved
in the election of Mr.. Bryan, not count
ing the evils that would flow from the
retirement of upward of 5000, 100000 Of
gold, upon which the credit of the ma
ton Is founded"