The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-07-28
JEFFERSON AND JACKSON.
How tho popocrat Candidate SANDER
Their lIemuricS.

! How tho popocrat Candidate ISLANDERS
Thelr Memories.
Chicago Tribune: After Mr.. Bryan
makes few more speeches such us
those he delivered In Centralia and
Kansas City last week. the public will
have taken his mental measurement
that Is, sized him up"-and be In pos
| session OF all that he wishes to have
| known in regard 10 his Views on the sill
Yer question. Let us glance at some of
the statements he made In his Kansas
| City speech. He opened 1t In these
| words:
THE platform adopted at Chicago is.
| In my humble Judgment, one OF the most
| splendid presentations OF party politics
ever adopted In national convention
In the United States, II Is Democratic
| platform In every sentence, word and
| syllable. 4 Democratic platform that
carries us back 10 the days OF It's Illus
| tr!cus founder, Thomas jefferson, and
10 It's most courageous defender. An
drew Jackson. II Is pcrvaded with tho
| spirit of the declaration Of Independence
| and II presents those fundamental doc
| tTincs upon which al! true government
| must rest"
Does Bryan really believe all this? II
1t Is "a Democratic platform In every
sentence. word, and syllable" why are
multitudcs OF the ablcst and most in
fucntial Democrats all over the union
| bitterly denounclnE IL rs ant-Dcmo-
cratic, a9 false to all sound Democratic
principles, as Il violation OF the doctrines
| preached by its founder. jefferson, and
its.Acfender, jackson? Why are they
asSaillnE 1t as the written embodiment
or PopultStic vagnrcs, of anarchIstic
| lawicssncss. OF rascally dishonesty, and
| OF national dishonOr? When did JEFF
fcrson preach that Congress should en-
| act that so cents worth of silver bullion
| should be freely coined for anybody
into standard legal tender dollars with
which 10 pay l01-ccnt dollar debts?
When did he. advocate n money ratio
between gold and silver whereby half
az much commercial valuc should be.
| coined into a silver dollar RS into n gold
dollar? When did he call that kind Of
swiEdlc blmctallism? When did he ad-
wise dishonest ratio between gold and
silver dollars for the purpose of cnab-
llnE on" man to cheat another?
and when did the Courageous Jack
, SON ever defend" such lopsided BIZ
| netalliam as consisting OF 1901 cent gold
dollars ana decent silver dollars? When
dla ne defend the half-valur, short
| weight money as good enough for the
government with Which To discharge Its
obligations and for citizens In debt to
| CHEAT their creditors? In what message
OF state paper or speech did he uphold
SUCH scoundrcl!sm?
MY. Eryan asserted that the Popocrat
| platform Is pervadcd with the spirit Of
| we Declaration Of Independence. But
| thc Intelligent man searches the dec
| lurntiOn IN Vuin Ia luJ IA
iIccicd IN the platform. Bryan says cit"
the atGorm--"prescnts those fundn-
mental doctrines upon which all true
government rests"
DO AL true governments" rest on the
| false assertion that sixteen ounces OF
silver are equal IN value to one ounce
| nt Soid, when al people In the world
Know that 1t requires more than thirty
| ounces OF silver To purchase onr ounce
| or gold. and thnt one ounce of gold will
| buy more food ralment, fuel, or labor
| than thirty ounces OF silver In this or
any other country? Mr.. Bryan Is well
| aware of these facts, Then why does
he advocate paying off creditor who
lfta loaned Il man an ounce Of gold
! with sixteen ounces OF silver? He SCcs
| perfectly clearly that to force the len
der by act Of Congress to accept that
amount OF silver which has only half
enough value IS rank. rotten dishonesty.
lie not only advocates just that diShon-
orab!c, raacaly act, but goes UP and
down tho land rraiSInE II and saying
| that II carries US back to the days OF
"Democracy's illuStrlouE founder, Jack
Hpn.' Was ever ranl;cr defamation 0r
the reputation OF the great dead utter
ed?
On this nbhorrcnt platform this No
| brasknn hopes 10 ride into the white
house GS President of this Srca; union.
| Why does he hope II? Hccausr he seems
to think that Il majority Of the voters
of thc8r United States are aCtuatCd by
| the same low. dIshoncGt standard Of
morals which he breaches
| Now, be 1t known 10 Bryan that boil,
Jefferson and jackson advocated and
| lnbored for Il bmctalic system wherein
| the purchasing ana dcbt-puyinE power
| OF the dollar uf each metal would POS
| SOS exactly the same value; and where
| the money, the borrower rendered to his
| creditor would be rXactly equal to the
| value. OF Edld dpllnr. ThOsr statesmen
sought to make, and adjust the gold and
| Fivpr' dollars 40 they would he inter-
chnnEcublc and ~ equal Intrinsic value.
Th!a Jefferson and jackson honest mo-
ncy doctrine WAS Endorsed and rCaf-
ilrInrd by thu democratic national con-
| vcntlon Of four years HSo, and on that
| honest money platform the pcopl. voted