The herald., 1896-10-04
CONDEMNS HANNA'S METHOD
Thurber, Well.Known New York
Republican, for Bryan
FOLLY OF GOLD STANDARD
II Can Only Tend to Degrade American
WorkiDgmeu
He Issues Two Circulars, One Of Which
Gives Strong Arguments in Fa-
vor Of Silver.

H, K. Thurber of New York, senior
partner Of the firm OF H. X. Thurber
Il Bro, the largest wholesale grocery
house in America, has for years been
one of the chief props of the Republican
organization in the Empire state. But
Mr.. Thurber cannot stand Mark Hanna
and his syndicate politics, and has come
out boldly for Bryan and free coinage.
J. s. Hackley, one of the best known
commercial travellers in America, knows
Mr.. Thurber very well, and when he
heard that the big New York merchant
tions and declared for Bryan he wrote
to him inquiring If 1t were true. Mr..
Hackley received the following reply:
NEW YORK, Sept. 15.-Mr. ]. r..
Hackley: Dear Sir-Yours of the 9Th
instant 1t hand. Mckinley cannot carry
New York state If the masses OF the
party vote the ticket, and I think they
will. The labor unions are with us, and
where there is one gold Democrat we
lose there are, as believe, three silver
Republicans to take his place. The fight
between Miller and Paatt will help us
in q small degree. If the New York
Kings and Queens Democrats can go to
the Harlem river with 10000 majority,
instead, as formerly, with 10000 to sc, ,000,
I believe the state will be ours. The ex-
citement is SO great and telling so strong
it covers very many employees from
talking and many debtors also, but their
ballots will go for Bryan. know this to
q certainty to be fact / have not in
years at this period before election seen
the signs point so unmistakably as they
do now for the election of Bryan. Yours
truly, H. K. THURBER.
Inclosed in the letter to Mr.. Hackley
were two circulars Mr.. Thurber has had
printed and is distributing broadcast
over the country, giving reasons for the
faith that is In him. The main features
of one circular, addressed ITO My
Friends" are as follows:
MR. .THURBER'S CIRCULAR.
"The question comes right now to
us whether we shall have bimetallic
currency or the single standard of gold
as the only redemption money. On this
point there is a great difference of opin-
Ion, and many good, honest, thoughtful
Americans take different sides.
(Which is right? Which policy is the
better for the greatest number Of our
people?
ION the one side are ranged the money
classes, the men whose wealth Is in
vested in bonds and mortgages and 9TH
er evidences of Indebtedness; and they
claim that If we have free coinage of
silver, they will be paid in what they
call '50-cent dollars They say that is
dishonest and wrong.
1.-The people, on the other side, say
that silver, at ratio of about 151R to l.,
has been used as money from the time
that civilization began down to 1917,
when England became creditor nation;
and that she has ever since that time
been trying to force the commercial ma
tions of the world on a gold basis, that
would reduce the amount of redemp-
tion money about one-half, that would
reduce the price Of all property other
than gold and evidences of indebted
ness, that would be paid in gold If
there was no other legal tender money.
"A single gold basis would injure and
in many cases ruin financially the pro-