The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-10-10
TRAM ROBBERS AID MONEY SHARKS,

TRAIN ROBBERS All MONEY SHARKS
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FRANK JANET talk Oh sIvxl
Frank James, the sno&ed refocs
bandit, 10 one Of the NEST persietsa
silver advocates ii the State. nv,
the ST. Louis Republic. Frank 10 IL
doorkeeper at the Standard Theate,
and he also drops q flag for Starter
Kit Chinn at the Fair Grounds every
afternoon. Chinn and his father
Colonel Jack Chinn, are two Of tha
most enthusiastic supporters Of the
white metal in the State Of Ken,
tuck but James other employer
Colonel Ed Butler, the owner. ID
the Standard Theater, = IL ~ gold
man. James seldom pIaysN TIL
races since his friend Willie Martin,
Pat lDunne's great jockey, ,went
East with the owner Of Flying
Dutchnnan. Martin used 20 make
Frank win = good bet every now
and then, and since HE departura
James has been preaching SILVER
between races instead, Of worrying
himSeif oysr thu outcome Of the
financial game in. the betting ring,
The celebrated former guerFilla
and bandit il : keen-eyed, mild
mannereds looking individual He
is very conservative in his talk
among strangers, but whenever he
gets started on the silver question
with arparty of friends there is no
end to him. He can talk intelli-
gently on the matter, and produces
facts and cold logic to back up his
theory that the double standard is
what the United States needs.
u lam willing to CONFESS" said
Frank to gathering of horsemsn
on the quarter-stretch the other day,
"thae l don't like Bryan, and 1
think I have good cause. He made
some speeches several, years ago in
which be referred in . very uncom,l
plimentary manner to my dead
brother, Jesse, and myself, but can
afford to be generous and return
good for evil. We are not going to
vote for individuals ia November,
but for a cause that 10 right and
must prevail. Silver is the stuff
and the money barons can't stop ~
from having it. This country has
been governed too long by Wall
street, and the West is about due tot
make . change. / don't believe IN
permitting any foreigners to dictate
our financial system, and if neces-
sary | am willing to shoulder gun
and do my share toward effectingI
our release from the bondage Of the |
monopohsts. They are going too far |
With the squeezing process, and the
masses are not going to stand it !
much longer. Money is Z power |
and the man with it can do lots Of
things that would get poor beggarl
in trouble. These tariff barons and
trust kings have things their own
way. They can rob right and left
without taking a chance of getting
the worst Of it. Like the thieving |
owners on dinky race-tracks, the
public has no chance with them.
Even in my old profession we
never had such good thing. Hold.
ing up trains usually pans out rich
when you happen to stop ono with
an express car we'll filled with the
long green, but it's not 80 nice when
some messenger or conductor takes
q shot at you from behind. We
used to take long chances of being
filled with lead at my old business,
but these foreign money sharks can
hold up a nation and suck It dry
and then lot of fools are made to
believe that they actually got the
best of the bargain. Talk about
blind men! Why, that doesn't be-
gin to express it. The only sincere
gold advocates are the. moneyedi
Grones and financial sharks. They
know that a gold standard is toI
their interests. Their dsluded fol.
lowers don't know anything. The
aristocracy of this coun-
try should 90 over TO England.
whore :hey belong. We don't want
any princes or dukes over here.
The poorest hard working American
is their superior, and If I we're a
millionaire several times over and
had a daughter who wanted to marry
one of them for his title she would
have to do it without my consent.
Exit Chinn tells me that if Bryan (
is beaten they will pass a bankrunti.
law down in Kentucky. j That's t6e
way to knock out the money sharks
II the old Bluegrass State were toll
AXE such action, it would be imi.
lated BY every other commonwealth
vest of the Aississsippi in short
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