The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1896-10-21
nal FORMED TO BUY SILVER
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|, sculI;n Raises 100000 For
Speculation in Bullion
"Trip ATE Mr.. BRYAN'S ELECTION.
w.mbets who Put Up $4,000
The Majority Are bankers.
Al. Very Confident.

sour capitalist frlehu Is ho' so p'ih' -sN'
,n,te metal as his rabid gold bug talk
Liza lead one to imagine.
average banker talks about silver as
knsh If were something fit only for max
dinner plate or cheap watch cases.
,o doesn't practice what he breaches.
H. are forty st. Louis bankers and
k,talists, all sound money men. VINO
ak silver is a pretty good thing wheth-
8p-vsn or Mckinley is elected.
a,nh all their rabid denunciation OF the
,s metal. they think enough of 1t and
future greatness to go down In their
,,.,. and nav hard cash for it for spec
tive purposes
II this by way of Introduction to
,ement of one of the latest and biggest
pcial deals by The local money kings.
bree weeks ago, Oh his return from the
|jierous East. Mr. John Scullin, the To-
railway magnate. began the formation
pool TO speculate in bullion in antici-
ion of the COMING election.
e circulated among his banker friends,
hing them he hal a proposition from Il
md in Mexico &c let him have bare
or at 81 cents ali ounce.
IT. scullin. in a dcprocating way, insin-
sd that In the event OF organs election
,r would probably 10 to SL29 an ounce.
lie if Mckinley carried the country 1t
IA certainly he worth SO CENTS
nrety charcs for snecu,ati,,
=, . ,,.,,,,,. a.at,., lit ,,,,.
II 1t was playlnG against their judy
pit it would certainly help in the event
hlckinleys overthrow to reconcile them
II, S5Ooo IN ,hc trn,mnb of froo. ,i,,.or
e.,,.. u,
w. 'VuH'i '"lNe' 30 We" anu the TURK
suspicion that Mark Hannas money
Ildn't buy the country for his rareed
was so prevalent that he rounded no
iorly members OF his pool III less than
brtngbt.
lad 10 and behold when ,bo ,bins ,.os
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A''''''''" ''o maturity oil those VINO
Joined IN were bankers.
here were a few who wouldn't put their
r,.o1 ,,,., ,' ''''1 ~ 'n'S' Mr. Scu'lih
sa V' 'n'iii III Ola. hut he could not
Ilse them mat their profit would he
al great as II they bought the white
al
ushow' MT Scuilin rounded UP the
members OF the pool and now has
'9oV on his hands to indulge in a biz,
ess'e puiiIon speculation
hdu intended going to Mexico to
pe'e The deal himself. but pressing
mess mas Kent him In the city.
eauNhile the greatest secrecy has been
'lVea ny the members OF the pool.
hey we're all terribly afraid thar friends
ia discover they banked enough on tho
SILVER cause triumphinc in Novemhor
HNe" S3ooo each on the chance
was confession of belief in the
fans probable lrmmph Thai would com
III with thci- declarations that the
loh was oil o. i bus the shouting
% for that reason the utmost secrecy
r. sculin Completed his moo, on octo-
II and h AMI his friends arc nn,v
ting the arrival OF their lp,I,nr w."
hen II Is safely stored 4, ~" ,,u,.-
Tie Union Trnst co,nnon,. ~ '"u ',,
complacently Il. iii Tn'n,, sm VI
md '''''' runs
the American roo,Ie ,,rr ,,o, ,,a.,.
mas man and elrr, prv,, ~ y" S S'",N
Forty" viii have s-ono go" ,' ~, ".ui-
lin, 49,. "I'i h'N' S""uO worth OF con-