Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1896-09-26
SORROW ANDDiSGUSI
At THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN HEAD.
QUARTERS.
The Famous London Financial News Art,.
Gle Is Authentic aud the Champion Re.
publican Campaign Lie Is Nailed to the
WALL.

Wall.
Democratic and Silver NATIONAL
Headquarters. Chicago. Sept. "a. 1896
The champion Republican campaignl
lie has been nailed to the wall. anal
there is sorrow and disgust at the Re-
publican headquarters.
The famous London Financial NewsI
article is authentic. All of the lies thatl
can be invented and circulated by the
Republican hired men will he of mol
avail. To the sin of lying the Republic-l
an managers have added that of fore-I
cry. but the people are not to be del
ceived.
The blundering Republican managersl
are deeply sorry that they ever att
tempted to assail the authenticity Of
The Financial News article. an exactl
reproduction of which appears ont
this page. by their stupidity they
have attracted general attention to a
most damaging document for the Han
ma cause. lis piece of idiotic mani
hgement Is on par with the Mexican
dollar iiasco. and the slave-driyinc act
now being performed by railroad COM
and syndicates.
Here is brief history Of the now IA.
nous London Financial News article. |
This publication is the leading financial
authority in the money center of the
world. In 1894. at a time when Will
lam Mckinley. Senator Don Cameron,
John Thurston, and all the leading Re-
publicans in the country were working
for the free coinage of silver, the Lon
don bankers, the Rothschilds, and the
great English papers representing them
became alarmed at the prospects that
the United States would declare it's
financial independence Of England.
They promptly went to work, and at
considerable expense. purchased the
Republican party. These same agents
attempted to deliver the Democratic
party to the Rothschilds, but it is a
matter of history that they failed.
English papers discuss American DOL
itics with n brutal frankness. II any
proposed American policy threatens
English commercial and financial su-
premacy the London papers frankly
say so. Being in close touch with the
London bankers. The Financial News
was in a position to voice their fears,
and 1t did SO in the article. which now
| threatens to wipe the Republican po-
litical syndicate off the face Of the
| earth.
The editorial in question was printed
| In the London Financial News April,
| 80. 1894. 1t was freely commented on
| by Republican and Democratic papers,
which are now frantically declaring
that no such article ever appeared.
Similar editorials appeared in other
| English papers. They warned the bank
| crs of England against the danger of
| the free coinage OF silver by the Uni
ted States, and their warnings were not
In vain. Mr.. Hanna is now spending
the good, sound. honest money of these
same London bankers in an attempt to
perpctuate their financial supremacy
| over the United States.
| Among those who received a copy Of
| The Financial News article was John
| NJ. Devine, then secretary of the Amer
| lean Bimetallic league. 1t was for
! warded to him by the "Durrant Press
Cuttings" bureau. the leading London
firm engaged in that business, and was
pasted on one OF their slips. q fac sim
lie OF which is printed in another col
umn. Senator Teller received a copy
of the paper containing the article. and
| so did Congressman Coffeen of Mon
tana. and many others who keep posted
ON the editorial utterances Of the lead
Ing London papers.
1 r
vention repudiated all past records and
| openly declared for single gold
standard. the London financial article
was reprinted in several American pa
pers. At first the Republican mana
gers paid little attention to 1t. They
believed they had money enough to
buy Mckinley's election, and expected
that Whitney and Belmont and Cleve-
land would muzzle the free silver peo-
| pie at the Chicago convention. They
were mistaken.
Something had to be done. They re-
aiized that unless the article was dis
credited. Mckinley would surely be de-
feated. They proceeded to pronounce
the article a fraud and a fake. In or
der To give this more effect the Repub-
lican national committee officially de-
clared that no such article was ever
printed ana followed this up by the
preparation and circulation Of clumsy
forSeries. Here are two of them:
London, Aug. II. 1896.
A {. Platt. Esq, Lincoln, Z. 5. A.
| Dear Sir:
We beg to return your cutting which
you forwarded us and to say that nc
such article ever appeared in The Fl.
nancial News.
Faithfully yoi,rs
THE EDITOR.
Faithfully yours. the editor" When a
man sends cablegram he ALWAYS
signs it Faithfully yours" or Il hav,
the honor to remain. my dear sir. witt
n highest esteem, your most obedien,
servant" or something like that. Her,
Is the next attempt of the uterar,
n bureau of the Republican nationa
committee:
2 The Financial News, London
= Aug. Is:
y We have received numerous letter
u nam American correspondents con
n tanning what purports to be editorial
: from The Financial News. and whic,