The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-08-22
Mr.. A, ". CAMPBELL
On the silver Question = Talks liz
terts'ingiy nnd instrnoiiveiy 10 u New
York lirpO rtcr.

oh 'hr SILVER untAtiOn talks IN
terestingiy nnd instructivriy TO u New
York Reporter.
New York Evening Post: The Hon.
Archibald W. Campbell, who was for
many years dltorOft W W VA.
lntclllgcnccr, was n caller at the nation
~ headquarters to-day. lie has been
spending some time at the scashOrG at
Bclinnr, nnd came to the city TO hear
Mr.. Cockrnh'S speech In reply TO Mr..
bryan, whose address he listened to last
Week. When asked whathe thOughtofth the
Two speeches In comparison, Mr.. Camp
bell said; mir, COclrnn's argument wns
able, sound and convincing. and was In
marked contrast with l}ryan'g bold as
sertlons and unwnrrantcd assumptions"
"As 10 the general situation It Is most
hopeful TO the Republican cause. |
agree with Senator Sherman that the
silver movement has about eliminated.
the lad Is ut Its height and Will surely
SINK lover ana lower from now on until
II IL lost to sight on election day. It's
not Il new thing. It's an old story out
west, but eastern people have hardly
paid any attention to Il until when they
ilnd that suddenly the PopullstlC ele-
mcnt5, with their silver notions. have
taken possession OF the Democratic or
Eanl2atiOn. II was not the action OF tho
Old-linc Democrats at all. They were
taken by surprise and control passed
out OF their hands. That fact caused
the movement 10 look NO formidable, but
II isn't amy more formidable than the
old Sreenback movement wna. You re-
member that even so able Il man as
Thurman cut loose from his usual good
sense and went over II looked as II
grcenbaokiam was to become the flnan-
cial policy OF the government. Such
men ~ Governor Morton, Of Indiana.
and General John A.. Logan. Of Illinois,
urged President Grant to sign the Inilu-
tion blu In 1874. but Grants hard. cool
sense AMI sound judgment caused hIm'to
veto II and thus was delivered n blow
which began the ending OF ~Grecnback-
Ism. That ending wHs histencd by the
success OF Hayes. In Ohio. In 1876. on q
sound money Issue. Carl Schurz stump
Ell OHIO fOr-1tayca ut that time. and the
German citizens OF the state almost en-
massc came TO the support of sound
money.
in the following year Hayes was
elected nv Il sound money President md
Srcenbackism was finished. Now that
movement was really POpullsm such as
we have to-day. although the name had
not yet been invented. The present
craze Will die out the same way. It's
leaders arG not men OF the brain and
judgment necessary for successful lead
crshlp. but they deceive the people who
do not reason things out. They array
class against class. They make the
western GARNER believe that the low
price OF silver causes the low price OF his
product, and that In some way crop
failures are connected with It.. People
who have been suffering ever since the
model prosperity year Of 1892 are looking
around for the cause. These leaders
pick out the gold standard and shout
TINT silver is the only remedy. Therein
lies the only danger-in the deception OF
pcoplc who have not prOSperrd and are
not certain what has been the trouble.
Another thing: II the western farmerse
prices Hrr 20 be inflated, how arc the
w~prkInGmen. who are the consumers,
going 10 pay them? They Will receive
their wages in deprecated currency.
and yet will be obliged to devote more to
the expense OF living"