The Cape Girardeau Democrat. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1876-1909, 1896-08-22
eRYANS' SALARY OF $4,000
An Explicit statement That He Re-
ceived This Amount From silver
SuecuIatOrs.

ceived This Amount From silver
Spectators.
Senator Thurston's charget that ''the
bonanza silver mine owners have
maintained extensive bureaus, with
corps of speakers and writer's. and
that William J. Bryan has been in
receipt of a salary from themforsome
years." has stirred up noend ofwrath
among the ~silverites and Popocrats.
In order to brake the force of this
charge that Bryan was nothing more
than Il subsidized boy orator for the
white metal the Rocky Mountain
News, of Denver. sent out a set of
Inquiries to Il picked lot of silver
mine owners. asking FORTS refutation.
1t received replies from J. j. Hager-
man, Eben Smith. Simon Guggen-
heimer, 5. y. Joseph. Dennis Sheedy.
Byron +. Shear and other prominent
mining men. With one accord and
in suspicious unanimity they denied
the existence of ANY bureau or or
g~aniZation of silver mine owners for
the purpose alleged by Senator Thurs
tom and of course denounced as IA
falsehoOd 1.-THE statement that Mr..
Bryan has eve received Il salary or
any remuneration whatever from them
for advocating the silver cause"
This statement was telegraphed
broadcast from Denver Sunday night
and printed in all the newspapers in
Chicago Monday morning. 1t has
provoked the following comment In Il
letter to the Evening Post" from one
familiar with the facts:
CHICAGO, I'LL. August l0.-To the
Editor: This is too thin Of
course, Hagerman. Smith, MOtfat II
Co. can t%ruthfully say they did not
pay Bryan. They. however, subscribed
largely to and paid to the so-called
Bimetallic League, and it paid Bryan.
You a find the checks of the Treas
urer of that concern Chambers by
name, | think, in favor of Bryan
every month for the last three years
passing through the bank At Lincoln,
Neb. His salary was $1,000 per year
when | knew about the leagues work.
A. J. Warner could tell you the truth
if he would. but it is not likely that
he would. as he too. is paid by the
league. w. c. PARIS.
Here is food for the American peo-
pie ~ reflect upon For three years
this spontaneous spouter fog free and
unlimited silver has been a Subsidized
advocate of a league whose sole OBJ
ject WIS to cur a market for the
products Of the silver mines. The
owners ofthese'minesdi nOtsubsidize
him directly. but they paid the freight
for the league, which without funds
subscribed by them would have been a
barren ideality."
Henry VI. Teller, the lachnymose
boiler. il another one of the
subscribers to the Bimetallic League
funds VII" has taken it upon himself
to pronounce Senator ThnrSton's
stament a ~talsehuod. He says that he
felt inclined to call Thurston down
himself, but he understands it sill be
done by Mr. BRYAN himself in proper
season.
The prope. season will nevc4 come
so long as there are persons living
who cal testify to the source ST Mr..
Organs income during the last three
years. he american people are not
to be cajoled with IL denial Of his hay
ing received money direct from the
silver mine owncrS. and Mr. Bryan
does not dare deny that he has, been
and is in the pay OF the Bimetallic
League. A. matter of fast. that
DISTINGUISHED organization has been
the chief srrssTT Of his incOur ever
sine ir was III Congress Chicago
Post.