Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1896-10-02
SORROW AND DISGUST
At the National Republican Head
quarters.
The Famous London Financial News Artt-
Gle Is Authentic and the Champion
Republican Campaign Lie Is
Nailed to the Wall

Nailed to the Wall.
Democratic and Silver National
Headquarters, Chicago, Sept. "a, 1885,
The champion republican campaign lie
has been nailed to the wall, and there is I
sorrow and disgust at the republican
headquarters.
The famous London Financial News
article is authentic. All of the lies that
can be invented and circulated by the
republican hired men will be of NO
avail. To the sin of lying the repub-
lican managers have added that of forg-
cry, but the people are not to be de.
ceived.
The laundering republican managers
are deeply sorry that they ever att
tempted to assail the authenticity Of
the Financial News article, an exact
reproduction of which appears on this
page. BY their stupidity they have
attracted general attention to most
damaging document for the Hanna
cause. This piece of idiotic manages
ment is on par with the Mexican dollar
iasco, and the slave-driving act now be-
ing performed by railroad companies
and the confederated trusts and syndi
Gates.
Here is brief history Of the now fa-
nous London Financial News article.
This publication is the leading financial
authority in the money center of the
world. In 1894, at time when William
Mckinley, Senator Don Cameron, John
Thurston and all the leading republic
ans in the country We're working for the
free coinage of silver, the London bank
ers, the Rothschilds, and the great Eng.
fish papers representing them, became
alarmed at the prospects that the
United States would declare it's financial
independence Of England. They prompts
ly went to work, and, at considerable eX-
pense, purchased the republican party.
These same agents attempted to deliver
the democratic party to the Rothschilds,
but it is matter of history that they
failed.
English papers discuss American pol"
itics with a brutal frankness. If any
proposed American policy threatens
English commercial and financial SUI
premacy the London papers frankly say
so. Being in close touch with the Lon.
don bankers, the Financial News was in
a position to voice their fears, and it did
so in the article which now threatens
to wipe the republican political syndi-
cate off the face of the earth.
, The editorial in question was printed
in the London Financial News April
80, 1894. 1t was freely commented on
by republican and democratic papers,
which are now frantically declaring
that no such article ever appeared.
Similar editorials appeared in other
English papers. They warned the bank
ers of England against the danger of
the free coinage of silver by the United
States, and their warnings We're not
in vain. Mr.. Hanna is now spending
the good, sound, honest money of these
same London bankers in an attempt to
perpetuate their financial supremacy
over the United States.
Among those who received copy of
the Financial News article was john
NJ. Devine, then secretary of the Ameri-
can Bimetallic league. 1t was for
warded to him by the "Durrant Press
Cuttings" bureau, the leading London
firm engaged in that business, and was
pasted on one of their slips, fac sim
lie of which is printed in another col
umn. Senator Teller received a copy
of the paper containing the article, and
so did Congressman Coffeen, of Mon,
tana, and many others who keep posted
on the editorial utterances Of the lead
ing London papers.
When the st. Louis republican con
vention repudiated all past records aid
openly declared for a single gold
standard, the London financial article
was reprinted in several American pa.
pers. At first the republican man
ayers paid little attention to it. They
believed they had money enough tc
buy McKinley's election, and expected
that Whitney and Belmont and Cleve
land would muzzle the free silver peo
pie at the Chicago convention. They
We're mistaken.
Something had to be done. They re
allied that unless the article was dis
credited Mckinley would surely be de
feated They proceeded to pronounce
the article fraud and a fake. In or
der to give this more effect the repub
lican national committee officially de
clared that no such article was evel
printed and followed this up by the
preparation and circulation OF clums.
forgeries. Here are two of them:
London, Aug. II, 1s96.-A. G. Platt
Esq, Lincoln, U. S. A.-Dear Sir: w
beg to return your cutting, which 70,
forwarded us, and say that no sucl
article ever appeared in the Financia
News. Faithfully yours,
"THE EDITOR"
Faithfully yours, the editor Whel
a man sends cablegram he Away
signs it, Faithfully yours" OF II haw
the honor to remain, my dear sir, will
highest esteem, your most obedien
servant" or something like that. Her
is the next attempt of the literar.
bureau of the republican national com
mittee:
"The Financial News, London, Aug. 10
We have received numerous letters from
American correspondents containin!
what purports to be editorials from tn
Financial News, and which have bee
reprinted in various western papers a
Campaign literature One Omaha pa
per prints an article stating it is 'froI
the London Financial News of Marc
TO- No such article was ever printe
by us, and it's whole tenor is direct
opposed to the view we have taken Q
the effect of free silver in the Unite
States. So far from advocating fire.
silver coinage, we have persistent
6 pointed out that it spells repudiatio