The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1896-05-22
CARLISLE INDICTED.
Charged to be in a Conspiracy with
New York Bankers.
Col. A. S. Colyar of Nashville Presents an
Important Matter in Very For
chile Manner.
From the Nashville SUM-


The book recently published by
the National Bimetalic Union, enti-
tied "The New York National Bank
Presidents Conspiracy Against In
dustry and Property" marks new
era in American politics. The book
seems not to have attracted the
slightest notice from the parties inn
plicated. The charge, with circum-
stantial detail, duplicates nine lead
ing bankers by name-all bank presi-
dents-in conspiracy with the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to bring on the
panic Of 1893 so that the ruin of the
countryside breaking down of all
industrial enterprises-might be
pointed to as the result of the Sher-
man law, and thereby drive Demo-
Gratis in Congress to vote for the re-
peal of that law as the first step, and
one essential, to giving the national
banks the right-the exclusive right
to issue circulating notes, and as u
final blow to silver.
The book was written by j. w.
Shuckers, who will be remembered
as the Private Secretary to Salmon
p. Chase, President LincOln's great
Secretary of the Treasury, during
the war, and was published by the
National Bimetalic Union, l34 Mon
roe street, Chicago.
One of two things should be done
in reference to this book and there
is no escaping the absolute justice
and right of one or the other alter
natives.
If this book is fabrication in
tended by the advocates of silver to
make capital for their cause by IA
false and slanderous charge against
the Secretary of the Treasury and
nine bankers, then the author and
the publishers ought to be pushed to
the wall by indictments for libel
and if this book is a fabrication none
should be reader to aid in the eX-
posture and punishment of this crime
than the devotees of the people S
money.
Such a publication, if false and
malicious, must react with unerrlng
power on the cause which the peo-
pie of the South and West have SO
much at heart.
But if this charge is true-that is
if the facts stated are true-then
there is no escaping the conspiracy
and the nine presidents of banks in
New York ought to be indicted fol
conspiracy and if the facts are
true there is not an honest man III
the United States but what will say
no matter which party he belongs
to nor which side of the great ques'
ton he is on, that the Seleretary
ought promptly to be renE1TTu IRON
the great office he holds.
This charge is, with unusual CIR
cumstantial detail, that after the
presidential election in 1892, one Vii
lard and Don NJ. Dickinson, in con
junction with John Sherman, a
Washington, undertook, in the in
terest of the New York bankers, t.
cprce the repeal of the Sherman
law-the two Former to furnish Dem
ocrats enough when united with thu
Republicans to repeal the law.
The Fifty-Second Congress tailet
to repeal the bill, the Democrats II
the main standing firm, although
two New York papers, which seem
ed to have taken the contract-th
Herald and Times-in long edito
rails and by specials from Washing
ton, and generally on the same day
as if inspired by common source
constantly kept Congress notified
that the President was unyieldlnj
and patronage would only be givel
to Democrats who were in favor o
herepeal.
When the Fifty-Third Congress
convened all attempts to move Dem