The San Francisco call., 1896-09-26
Hearst Heralded Him as One
Whose Policy Would Cause
Prosperity.
TWO VIEWS ON GREAT ISSUES
Until He Saw a Chance to Boom His
Silver Mines Editor Hearst Was
for Honest Money.

THE Calls exposure of the Examiners
position on the silver question has caused
a great deal of interest throughout the
State. Many readers of the Examiners
old editorials, reprinted in THE CALL, re-
membered the fact that the Examiner had
long been battling for the gold standard,
OF at least doing all in its power against
the free-sIlver movement, until young Mr..
Hearst had something whispered in his ear
about the chance to become Monte Cristo
No. by the appreciation of his valuable
silver mines. Ever since he heard the
tempter's voice his New York Morning
Journal and his Examiner here have been
beating their editorial tom-toms for free
silver. II comes very awkward to Mr..
Hearst now, however, to be confronted
with the ghost of his past utterances.
The most famous acrobatic feat per-
formed by the Examiner is seen in the
contrast of its advocacy of 25 to with its
present uIterances, exhibited in the follow
ing deadly parallel:
FAvoRs 25 TO 1. BELIEVES IN 16 TO 1.
Examiner, May 4, Examiner, Septem Der
1895 The ratio atl3, 1896-Under free
which we could safelycoinage the silver dol
coin silver under an in lar will be worth ex-
ternational tactly the same as the
is not the same undergold dollar, and the
which we could do itparity between silver
alone. With the assist and gold coined un-
Ruce OF the principal oined will be 16 to
commercial nations wethroughout the world.
could open our mines
in security at 151z to l.
To maintain the parity
alone it might be nee
essary to make the pro-
portion 25 to l. Our
experience has not en-
eouraged US TO believe
we could do this alone
at 16 10 l.
The % to idea was set forth more than
3 year ago, but there have been more re-
cent utterances in point. The following
from the issue of February %, 1896. con-
trasted with late utterance speaks for
itself:
OPPOSES FANATCIsM. RADICAL FREE SILVER.
Examiner, February Examiner, septembe
%, 1S96-Mr. Whitneyl21, 1S96-From the be-
Opposed 10 free coin ginning of this cam
agel favors the larg paign it has been as
est USE OF SILVER serted in these columns
that can be attainedIthat the straight road
WITHOUT RISKING theland the only road to
stability of the Ma international bimetal-
honal finances, andllism is the undertak-
this is the very utmostling OF an independent
that the West andlcourse in this regard
South can secure. nIby the United States
the silver States stand
out for impossibilities
they viii simply block
themselves in help
less minority.
THE RASH SILVER MEN. THE WISE SILVER MEN.
Examiner. Feb 22l The Examiner, Sent
1861 is idle to talkl10, 1S96-But at least
about nominating a Mr. Bryan's attack on
man flor Presidentlthe existing system is
whose views on thelnot to be answered.
financial questio n Very wisely the Demo
would suit the radicalcratic nominee has
ree-silYer men of theltaken the offensive,
South and West We
must look at facts as
they are, and the unde-
niabie fact in this mat
ter is that such can
didate could not conf
mand 100 elect oral
votes. The Democratie
party wants to go in to
this campaign to win,
not to follow Senator
Stewart on q dress
parade; and to stand
any chance of winning
we must nave a candi-
date who will not alarm
the great centers of
population that have
the votes.
AGAINST SILVER sENA-THE WISE WILL VOTE FOR
TORS. BRYAN
Examiner, Feb. q The Examiners pro-
1S96-The Senate has phecies during Augnst
done its best to plungeIand September are
the National fnancesthat the silver craze
Into confusion by pass will win, because, as
Ing free silver bill. said September IL,
The existingI"The formers are wise
laws are sufficient toThey are going To vote
preserve the publicfor Bryan" etc
credit, although in a
clumsy and expensive
way. The Sem
ate's action insures
q hot financial fight
this year in about
twenty States. There
are that many Senators
who supported free
coinage whose terms
expire next year, and
whose seats may be at