The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-17

The story, which has been frequently
published in various parts of the coun-
try that. the Bryan managers are charg-
ing the towns he stops In q sum Of
money before he will consent to make a
speech, has not been denied. The
charge is specifically made, and the de-
tails OF the mannerin which the assess
ments are being levied in the western
towns and cities are published in many
Of the papers in the west.
n The sound money Democratic commit
tee has collected data giving the figures
and has Issued a statement showing that
Mr.. Bryan charges each town from $50
to 5000 for his talks on free silver. The
money Is raised from the retail mer-
chants and saloon keepers, who profit
by the assembling OF large crowds from
the surrounding country, and the sur
plus, after paying the expense of the
Bryan tour, goes into the treasury OF, the
national PopocratIc campaign commit
tee. The matter.ls reduced to a system
and there is sliding scale.
55 During the recent tour in Indiana the
charge On the local committees was $40
a minute for short speeches from the car
PLATFORM. and wherever Bryan would
leave the train the charge was on the
hour basls-sl0o an hour. One state
,ment which has been repeatedly made
and not denied says:
When he passed through Illinois on his
way to New York the second time the
northern cities in the state rebelled greatly
against this tax. and when he went
through Ind lana last week some of the
towns openly rebelled, and Noblesville
being unable to collect $50. Mr.. Bryan
( did not stop. while at LoSanSport, when
i they found they could not raise $500, Mr..
Bryan gave Them so worth OF talk and
they collected money enough to hear him
talk for half an hour. ] t cost Aberdeen
IS. D., $500 before Bryan opened his mouth,
and the people. are so mad for having
been mucted that amount that they are
teleEraphtng towns along Bryan's route
telling them not TO spend money foollshly,
but let the Boy Orator go On. it1#
There Is great deal OF difficulty In fix
Ing Bryan's itinerary In Illinois and Ohio
The trouble Is that the Popocrats In the
country don't want to waste money In
paying FOR Dryan's train 10 stop, and
therefore no itinerary has been announced
1t lis stated ut headquarters here that Ms
soon as "a few details are arranged the
route viii! be announced. The .'few dc.
tails" arc simply whether these towns
can collect money enough. The people
of the middle west are getting very sick
OF having to pay Bryan so much word
Tor his speeches. and the committee Is
having hard time In finding towns will.
ing to put up tho money. a 4 !. Z,
This Is anew and novel method OF con-
Quoting a presidential campaign, but It
Is in line with the. theatrical display be-
Ing made by the Bryan outfit. The
guarantee system Is peculiar to the the
atrical business, In fact, though the
method Of collecting the guarantees
adopted by Mr.. Bryan's managers saw
ors more OF the street taking variety
than Of the Legitimate. profession. 1t
reminds one Of the peddler OF patent
soap, who carries along with him the
paraphenalia for a. "sllght-of.hand''
performances and after showing n few
tricks announces that after he has sold
q few packages Of his warea he will
treat his audience to the remainder OF
the programme.
p. q 4 u q d . HHH #