The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1896-07-10


The situation remains unchanged.
Hanna is keeping his hand over McKin-
ley's mouth to prevent any utterance
by that humbug and office-seeker upon
the financial question until the Demo
cratic convention has acted Grover
Cleveland has been fishing at the mouth
of the James River. His piscatorial
pursuits will be confined to Salt creek
next year. Teller has said nothing
save that he is willing to support any
tried and true friend of silver for the
Presidency, and does not desire the
nomination himself. Whitney and Hill
have secured a gold delegation to the
Chicago convention from New York
state, but am credibly informed that
1t was done with difficulty, for the farm
ers of western New York are almost
unit for free silver.
Many people may wonder why Whit
ney gave up his trip to Europe and SO
suddenly came to the front in the fight
for goldbuggery. l have the inside facts.
About two years ago deal was entered
into whereby Cleveland, Whitney, La |
mont and several other administration |
men secured options upon the fran
chises of the street railway systems in
the large cities of the country. Europ- |
can Jewish financiers loaned them the |
money necessary to buy the roads upon
their agreement to repay it in gold.
There is the case in a nutshell. If sill
yer is remonitized, the European Jews
who have cornered the gold will not let
1t go except alta heavy premium. The
United States as a commonwealth will
not need it, for all of our national obi
cations are payable in coin gold and
silver at our option.) Thus the usur-
ers who love an unaearned dollar more
than an assurance of eternal bliss, will
exact the uttermost pound of flesh
from those whose obligations are made
payable in gold. Cleveland, Whitney
and Lamont know the gang they are
dealing with, and fear ruin for them
selves if they do not disrupt the silver
This being the case, all the efforts of
the administration are being directed
towards preventing union of the sill
yer forces. 1t is no longer, with the
gang question of whether they can
get any more money or loans from the
the gold conspirators, it is a question
of avoiding being swallowed up them
selves. If the question was not SO SER
ious for the country, the predicament /
of Cleveland ct al. would be. laugh :
provoking.
The administration cuckoos are send
ing out letters to Southern Democrats,
appealing to them to stay the silver s
tide, and threatening that if they per- S
sist in their free silver theories they i
need look for no further financial aid I
in their business enterprises from east {
ern capitalists. When their outstand- 1
ing obligations are due, no further ex- I
tension of time will be given them, and q
they will be required to pay up or suf- {
fer the consequences. They may turn |
to their free silver friends in the West,
but they are apt to find the latter class a
without capital, except what they OBJ Y
tain through their eastern connections.
When their debts are due their credit C
ors will not be satisfied with 50cents on r
the dollar, and the result is they will
demand dollar for dollar or foreclose
the mortgages they hold upon their
1t is understood that this is
the kind of logic ex-Secretary Whitney
and his sound money associates will APP ;,
ply in dealing with the Southern rep =
at Chicago, and it is :.
80 boldly stated in the Washington y
Post.
With regard to this l consulted a h
prominent attorney of this city, who is
said that such action on the s,
part of the administration, it's cuckoos
and the national bankers, who in the z,
South represent the gold conspirators,
vas in contravention Of section 5503 Of f.
he Revised Statutes of the United
States, which reads thus: 10
''If two or more persons conspire to
njure, Cypress, threaten or intimidate o
my citizen in the free exercise or en-
oyment of any right or privilege Sc =
ured to him by the Constitution or tt
avs of the United States, or because
Il his having SO exercised the same, -
nth intent to prevent or hinder his
rec exercise or enjoyment of any right O
r privilege SO secured, they shall be ca
ned not more than 5000, and impris-
nod NOT mora finn 10 vnnrs. and shall fa