The evening times., 1896-10-21

LEES POLITICAL PARADOX
Publicly breaches Silver and
Privately Advises Gold.
ON STUMP AND IN OFFICE
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Written Clauses Inserted in Notes
That Interest and Principal Shall
Be Paid In United States Gold at Its
Present Weight and Fineness-Op-
ponents Astonished.
ON STUMP AND IN OFFICE

j. Blair Lee, his political opponents say,
breaches free silver, but practices gold.
Mr.. Lee is the Democratic candidate for
Congress in the Sixth Maryland district.
He has his law office in this city, and is one
| OF the bright ana shining lights at the Dis
| trict bar.
He accepted a nomination to Congress on
the Chicago platform, and is as good a
silver man as Senator German, Chairman
Jones, Marion Butler, or Secretary Diffen-
derfer. He is right in the free silver swim,
If the reports from his district ,,e to be
relied on.
lie has found that the free and unlimited
coinage OF silver as the only remedy for the
burdens under which this fair land groans;
is the only panacca for the Ills the body
polite has fastened to IL. -rs.H's
OPPONENTS ASTONISHED.
This is what he tells the people Of the
sixth Maryland district from the stump,
SO his Republican and sound money friends
say. They have heard him, and they en-
Joyed the dramatic way in which he gave
1t TO them. His arguments were so strong
that they wondered at a runor which be-
gan to go the rounds some days ago. y.-.
That ruinor was nothing less than that he
was not practicing what lie was preaching.
Free silver was good enough for the far
iners and for the business men OF the Sixth
Maryland Congressional district, but it was
not good enough for him and his clients
AT first even Mr. Lees political enemies
would not believe that this brilliant young
advocate of Mr.. Bryan and Mr.. German
ana their collective belief would stand for
one money on the stump. and for the op-
posite IN his Office; he would be a Demo
crat on polticaipiatforma nd Republican
III his business sanctuary.
But even ms IclitC al enemies We're at
last forced. most reluctantly, they say.
Ia believe the rumor. II was nothing else
uan that while acting as an attorney in
certain real estate transactions lie insisted
That all payments Of the face Of notes and
The interest hereafter coming due should
be paid in gold coin
Tie nUtcS SO drawn up were not printed
affairs which anyone might fill up be-
cause they were handy. Mr.. Lee inserted
tie clause III writing; went out of his way
10 pnt il In, MS il were. And this was the
calIse which was Inserted
Payable in god coin of the United
States Of ITS present weight ana fineness."
II w;ts because tla Inconsistency of Mr..
Lee is a politician and Mr.. Lee as an at
torney was SO giarmG that his political
opponents hcsitatedto believe. His friends
viii now claim that the whole rumor j. the
work Of bad politicians on the other side
FRIENDS -AsToUNDED.
His political admirers know Mr. Lee
they say. They know be is friend Of the
poor man; OF the farmer; Of the oppressed
They know he is hcart and soul with Senator
leaders of the Dcinucratic party. They
know Ire feels that the only salvation Of
tile country is in wiping Wsil street and the
gold bugs from the face of the earth
Knowing all this, they are sure that
lie would not, even as an attorney, indi-
rectiy admit that the free coinage Of silver
would dcpreciate tile country's currency.
He, they say, talks right out to the people
of his district, and tells them all that Mr..
Bryan does.
lie could not talk as he does they hold,
If he did not believe all he said. He would
not, lie could not, be different on the
stump from inhi> offiae. Perish the Thought.
Yet the rumor is afloat. People are talk
ing about it. Some even are chuckling
over these, OF course, thefricnds of Capt
McDoualG. II is going the rounds. 1t is
rousing Indignation anon the voters in the
Sixth Maryland district, and it is even
spreading TO remUtcr regions. II may
chang. the result of the national cam
paigu.