The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1896-08-28

The men interested in the wealth
listed above have been most active in
the free silver cause. They have sew
eral million reasons for being inter-
ested in the success of Mr. Bryan, and
expect by the latter's success to acquire
more millions of these reasons at the
expense to the rest of the American
people.
Senator Stewart, who has his mort
cages made payable in gold, and who
is interested as agent and otherwise in
vast amount of silver mining prop
erty, is the inventor of the expression.
"The crime of 49," although as late as
1874 in a speech in the senate he said:
81 want the standard gold, and no
paper money not redeemable in gold.
Gold is the universal standard of the
world. Everybody knows what dollar
in gold is worth"
Senator Stewart is now publishing a
paper called the Silver Knight, in
which he pretends to take interest in
the working people of the country, and
to plead the cause of the laboring men,
all of whom he says will be benefited
by the free coinage of silver. How
friendly he is to the laboring men can
be judged when it is known that the
laboring men charge him with. con-
Quoting ''rat office" and undcrpaying
his printers. Labor troubles on his
paper led to the open charge that Mr..
Stewart did not pay living wages to
his printers.
Senator Teller, who was pushed by
his silver friends for nomination at the
hands of the Democrats, after he had
deserted the Republican party, has re-
Gently acquired large mining interests.
Francis J. Newlands, member of
congress from Nevada, and agent of
the Sharon estate, was chairman of
the Silver party convention.
Two of the greatest organs published
in the interest of the free coinage of
silver and in advocacy of the Demo.
cratic ticket are the San Francisco Ex-
amincr and the New York Journal.
They are both run by young Mr..
Hearst, who represents the great silver
interest of the Hearst estate.
II. G. Chambers, one of the delegates
to the Chicago convention, is part
owner in the Ontario silver mine, in
which the Hearst estate is also inter-
ested. He is the general manager of
this mine, and owner of the Salt Lake
Herald, one of the hackers of the Bime-
tallic League, which isnow flooding the
country with free coinage literature.
Gen. A. j. Warner, president of this
Bimetallic League, is said to have re-
ceived a salary for some years of suffi-
cient proportions to justify him in de-
voting his whole time to the free coin
age propaganda.
w. A. Clark, the silver king of Mon
tana, was one of "DicI" BANDS back
ers. When the latter's chances went
glimmering he gave his support to
Bryan.
). Il. Hauser, another member of the
silver syndicate, was particularly act
i've during the Chicago convention. He
is former Missouriau and q bosom
friend of Senator Vest
Then there 10 L. f. Holden, Of Glove
land, o., who made an enormous for
tune out OF the Old Telegraph mine in
Utah. He sold his interest to French
syndicate for ST., 900, 900, but is still in
terested in some Utah silver mines.
The above is brief description of
some of the above political workers for
the Democratic ticket, to whom the
free coinage of silver means SO much.
The election of Bryan and a free silver
Democratic congress would mean mill
ions to these people.
Placing the product of the mines in
which they are interested at 1900, 900
ounces year, although it is believed
it will reach 10000, 900, and the gov
eminent paying them Sl.29 an ounce,
and granting that it would cost them
CD cents an ounce to mine it,
the people of the United States
would pay into the pockets of
the silver mine owners sal 100000
per annum, and make gigantic mo-
nopolsts Of these very men who are
now raising such hypocritical cry
against monopolies in their platform.
This is considered n very conserva-
tive estimate of what profits would be
to these silver barons in case free coin
hge were accomplished. 1t is believed
that it would be nearer SIS 200, 900 per
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