Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1896-04-15

The editor Of the Advocate takes nearly
a column to tell his readers Of "mare's
nest he has recently found-the same old
one he discovered some time ago, to-wit;
that The Sound Currency Committee" in
New York City had notified him that it
would furnish printed pages or plates OF
Sound Currency matter free Of charge
The trouble with the editor Of the AdYo-
cate appears to be that the gentlemen Of this
Sound CurrencyCommittee live iuNew York,
are able to de this thing, and that they have
organized for the purpose Of resisting the
efforts Of free coinage advocates. He over
looks the fact that silver mine owners and
free coinage men have their organizations
that labor men, farmers, mechauics-all the
industries have their leagues, their unions,
etc. There is nothing secret about this
Sound Currency Committee-the facts sta
tea I'm their circulars sent to most, If not ali,
the newspapers Of the country, forbid the
idea entering the head Of any editor Of COM
mon sense that there is anything underhand
or improper In afording the public oPpor-
tunity of seeing the anti-free silver views OF
men well equipped to discuss financial ques-
tons There is no more improperly IN
"The Sound Currency Committed" supplying
the country press with its publications, than
for the State Democratic Committee to place
at the disposal of publisher campaign
mstter-not near so much as for a Demo
cratic Committee for instance, supplying a
check TO enable publisher not fully in &C.
cord TO persuade, it may be, his readers
not as a Democrat but as the organ or Ad-
vocate of Farmers Alliance, as an illus
tratiOn.-to vote the Democratic ticket.
such things, by common report have been
done During the campaign four years ago,
if we mistake not, the editor of the Adyo-
cate gave public notice TO persons receiving
that paper who had not Subscribed that it
was all right-no bills would be sent, &c
Il is a fair presumption that the three
months subscription for the hundreds of pa
pers additional to his regular list had been
made and paid for by committee or some
organization interested. The editor of the
Advocate was not known as a philanthrO-
pist. nor was his paper known as a Demo
cratic paper before the campaign opened
nor after. Why, about the first thing Mr..
Morrow did when he took charge Of the
West Virginia Democrat was to change the
name And the presumption is not a far
fetched one that in writing his announce
ment as a candidate for the Legislature a
few weeks ago subiecting his candidacy to
the action of the primary, that the omission
of the word Democratic" was not an mad
yer,ance.l He talks about the Wall street
metal editor of THE FREE PRESS I'm
Ill Mr. Morrow's paper was repudiated as
the organ Of the Farmers Alliance and he
was excoriated for what some of his Alliance
brethren regarded iufdelity, if not base be-
travail there was an editorial supervising
committee of three If there was a super
yisiae committee stationed in his sanctum
now-men of average courtesy-the Advo'
cate might give evidence of regard for men
an ovalted places the opinions of men
might be respected If not adopted; aud edi
torial amenities generally might be observed.