The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-10-08
MIR. BRYAN's HYPOCRISY.

None of the drivers of these carriages
would accept pay for to-day's services
| Mayor Taggart is reported to have re-
| marked to Mr.. Bryan Tuesday during the
rather dismal ride about town. AS the
| Mark Tapley of the occasion, the Mayor
| felt called upon to say something to relieve
| the sombreness of the situation. Where
| upon, Mr.. Bryan put on one of his Pecks-
| niffian smiles and remarked that it was an
| evidence that the people recognized that sit
| is a poor mans campaign" In that he sis
| fuller of virtuous precepts than a copy
| book" Mr.. Bryan daily reminds one of
| Dickenss Pecksnif.
1t is one of the incomprehensible things
| in regard to Mr.. Bryan that he imagines
that any intelligent man does not know
that the wealthest clique of men in this
country are furnishing the greater part of
the funds to pay the expenses of his cam
paign. A few days ago several papers pub
lisked the names and the wealth of thirty
eight individuals and corporations that are
in the silver mine ring whose aggregate
wealth is s596oo0,000, an average of s15,6S0,
Geo. There forty other mine owners
whose aggregate wealth is $40, 900 900, max
And this is the poor mems combine to
which Bryan piously alludes!
There is abundance of evidence that the
silver mine owners are behind the candi-
dacy of Mr.. Bryan. A few days ago the
Journal published an extract from the let
ter of the secretary of the Bimetallic
League of the silver States appealing to the
silver-mine owners to increase their sub
seriptions. In that letter Secretary Merrill
said:
If Bryan is defeated we must expect to
see silver sold at a price that will be given
ii simply by its demand for use in the arts.
which will certainly be not more than 10
cents an ounce. In view of these facts the
owners of silver-producing properties can
afford to contribute at least the additional
profits they receive from their own silver
pr oduct for one month to the Bryanite cam
paign. - / appeal to Messrs McIn-
Keith and Kearns of the Silver King;
Chisholm and Others of the Centennial and
Packard of the Eureka Hill; Daily of the
DAILY; West, Beck and associates of the
Bulion-Beck Farnsworth and Sharp, of
the Horn Silver. and the owners of the
Sioux, Ontario CIV. r. Hearst. vice pres
idenD, and other silver mines Of this State,
who can well afford TO assist in this cause,
to figure up the average monthly silver
product from their mines and multiply the
product of one month in ounces, by ga cents,
which is the additional price they will
ceive for their product-all of which will be
profit-and at once have that amount con-
tributed and placed in the hands of the
treasurer of the bimetalfic parties to assist
Mr. Bryan in the wonderful campaign he
is making almost unaided. If we can Sc
cure the additional profits of one months
product Of the Western silver-producing
mines 1t will insure success at the election
of Nov. 5.
The men here referred to. and others to
whom this appeal was made, have named
a committee to see to the collection of the
So, Geo. 900 which such an assessment would
realize, which is to be used to promote the
election of Mr. Bryan, simply that silver
bullion now worth $100 in the open markets
nay be stamped 5000 by the United States
government. And yet backed by these
multi-milionaires, Mr.. Bryan and his asso-
ciates posing the poor mems party.
running poor mems campaign To carry
out their hypocrisy, they have, it is af-
frmed, required the Democrats in such
cities as the Bryan train has stopped in in
this State to pay the travelling combine
from $50 to $500 toward defraying the ex-
penses of the train and the campaign.
The dec eption will not work. Secretary
Merrill has given the facts. Mr.. Bryan is
kept in the field by the silver mine own
ers' trust, who are running his campaign
speculation