Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1896-10-18

An HQIVOTdl AJlGu4pO elS OOCO1VACH
Most Conclusively Exposed-Mr.
Grady Never Said the Demo-
cratic Platform of 1902 Meant
Free Coinage, But Exactly the
Reve1s Sc, as was well Understood
sby Every One Except Mr.. Henry
Baer-His Point Made Clear and
the Intelhgencer Convicted Of
Another Attempt to Bamboozle
Its Readers.
It has passed into a proverb, that to
make some people understand anything,
one must use an axe.
Another truism is, that when you see
anything Of a political nature in the In
teiligencer, it not only isn't so, but has
been so reversed, distorted, m.srepre-
scented and falsifed as to bear no sem
blance whatever to the original propo-
siJion.
And not content with this, that paper
will calmly insist that black is white and
f3lsehOod truth, when the entire COM
mun.ty knows to the contrary, and is
indignant and outraged at the insult pu,
upon the intelligence, honesty and sense
Oh fairness OF the public.
The In,elligencer appears TO be edited,
during this campaign, upon the assump-
zion that is readers are all knayes, fools,
or both.
No other hypothesis will justify it's
conduct At times, and such a time was
yesterday morning, when, referring TO
The card OF Mr. Henry Baer, published in
the Register of Friday morning, refer
ring 10 Nj. Gradys reading of The Dem
ccradc platform of 1892 and Mr.. Baers
conspicuous and isolated m!5undersJ2nd-
ing of VIVA, was going on, it said:
The Register. in replying to Mr.. Henry
Bders card, which il publishes just over
the answer, exhibits rare attempt 20 de-
lude its readers by garbling a portion Of
sentence in the Democratic platform OF
1872. Mr.. Baer raised the point That
Thomas +. Grady. of New York. IN his
speech here, MiscOnstrucd the currency
plank of the 20 platform. when he made
IL read a declaration for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver. and he quoted
the plank entire TO prove that Mr. Grady
had been guilty of this miscolstructon.
I'm replying, the Register supports Mr.
Grady's action and is probably the only
Pop0crauc paper i'm the country jhat
would Go so.
The plank of 1892, as quoted by Mr.;
Baer, declares for the coinage Of both
gold ana silver, without discriminating
against either metal or charge for mint
age But THE DOLLAR UNIT OF
COINAGE or BOTH METALS MUST
BE OF EQUAL INTRINSIC AND EX-
CHANGEABLE VALUE. OR BE AID
JtSIED THROUGH INTERNATIONAL
AGREEMENT" &c. and further de-
mands the maiutainmeEt of the parity of
the two metals. The Register, with that
declaration just above. quotes only part
OF the sentence. stopping at the word
'mntage and holds that Mr.. Grady was
If Mr. Grady was right. perhaps the
Register viii inform us what is meant by
the qualifying clause. and why dic am
other clause in the plank demand the re-
peal OF the Sherman act as "a measure
freught with danger? Also. why is 10 that
the plank was denounced as ''gold-bus
plank i'm the Chicago convention 10y the
siVcrites? The Democratic platform Of
1892 was regarded. and is yet regarded by
every one, as an honest money plank. and
the effort to make il read otherwise 10y
garblug q portion OF a sentence leaving
out the significant qualifying clause is
about the weakest thing our desperate
Popocratic friend and nelgh5or has been
guilty of yet.
This would be funny, if The topic was
no, such q vital and serious one.
The Register is going to make this
thing very plain, not in the hope that
either Mr.. Baer will understand it, or
hat the IDtelligencer will apologize for
It's editorial screed Of yesterday, but that
The entire reading public may see just
what efforts are being made to misie3d
them, through deliberately considered
and written editorials in the leading Re-
publican paper of the safe. The editor
- the IuJelligelCer does this knowing
that perhaps nine,een-lWenie-hs Of us
readers did MOI hear Mr.. Grady's Opera
House speech, and thus knowing moth
ing about il, can be imposed upon. OF
course, this is neither honest nor decent. |
but il is fair sample of ln,eIigencer
political work, and the Register, in JUS
tee to the community in which it is
published, intends to expose the fraud
In the course of his address at Jle
Opera House. and during a discussion
of Inc financial issue. Mr. Grady remark
ed that the gold-bug charge that the
Chicago Convention was controlled and
dOminS.ed by communists, socialists and
anarchists was unrue, and proceeding,
said:
The free silver idea is no new thing
I'm the West. The West has always de-
m3nded it. since The discovery Of what
was done by Congress in 1873. But they
have never gotten ii. The gold mono
me.alis-s. in whose interests SILVER was
demOne lied. have always COntrived TO
make the Western people believe, when
they came to the National Conventions
asking for the restoration Of silver that
there was always something of far
Greater importance demanding aUen-
ton
Mr.. Grady proceeded to show how this
demand for free silver had been circum-
ycrted. i'm various Democratic National
Conventions. down to 1892, and then,
taking up a sheet Of typewriter paper
he said:
But in 1892 the Western and South
crn people again came 10 the che 20
Conven ion. asking for the rehabilitation
of silver. They brought with them q
plank embodying their idea. They sub
mitted it to the Convention. and they
got t. That plank was as follows.
We hold 70 the G5e of BON gold and
silver as the standard money of the coun-
inv. and TO the coinage of both gold and
silver without Discriminating agains.
either metal or charge for mintage
That was free coinage Of both gold
and silver. applause. Mr.. Grady mo-
tiOninr with his hands for siience.) Don't
8pDlsud vel. This isn't the place. Wait
tili I get through reading. That plank,