The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-11-20
sCATNING REDUKE
To the Popocrntlo rren for Its Abuse OF
sound Money Democrats.

To the Popocrntio Pres, for Its Abuse Of
sound Money Democrats.
Charles Town Free Press Gold Dcm.):
Some Of u friends OF tho FREQ silver
persuasion have not been able 10 initiate
Mr.. Bryan In the apparent composure
with which hG has met defeat. n they
nre disposed TO vent their lll-humor upon
tho Democrats whO-prcferrlng the spirit
to the form-wlthdrew from tho party
organization when the Populists took
control oft. Particularly the Wheeling
Register, which loudly opposed the free
coinage movement before the assembling
OF the Chicago convention, but abandon
ed It's covictlonR, IL It had any, Mt the
demand OF that eccentric convocntlOn
becoming n OF the most Vocifcrous adj
vocates OF cheap money. The Register,
In It's Issue OF The 9TH, makes a brutal,
and not very brilliant or Outrageous as-
sault upon, Generals Palmer and Buck
nor. spacing out Its clumsy effort at de-
traction with liberal extracts from the
more polished invcctivc OF the Washing
ton Post-aphper which conducted Itself
with such admirable diplomacy during
the campaign just ended as to leave Its
readers somewhat In doubt whether Il
favored Byran on . gold platform or
leaned to Mckinley and silver monomet-
alllsm. II was not be expected that
journals OF such character should hold in
admiration these manly men, who have
proved their courage not less by leading
L forlorn hope In the political strife Of
1896 than by their conduct on the battle
fields OF The sixties; or commend the few
thousand Democrats who voted accord
Ing IN fhnIF NnNstnIinD M Nptfhnnt FAy1FI
to the probability OF failure or success.-
Nobody has regarded them with re-
spect," says the Wheeling representative
OF gymnastlc journalism. Nobody
wanted to elect them. Nobody offered
them the poor travestry OF reverence and
honor" The thousands that marched In
tho great Sound Money parade through
the streets OF Chicago passed them with
barred heads and every mark OF honor:
great crowds assembled In the chief
cities OF the country to hear and applaud
them; and hundreds OF thousands OF true
Democrats would have been glad TO vote
for them IL ~thePopullst assault upon law
and order and national honor had not
alarmed the nation Into forgetfulness OF
party lines and made VIM. Mckinley the
candidate, no longer Of n political organ
tzatlon, but crcdIt-eaving and law-cn-
forcing majority OF the people.
The Post. which has virtually depre-
Gated the use of harsh and uncharltable
la~nGuage-that Is. toward any candidate
or party that might possibly CONF into
power, calls them "a couple OF tranpar-
ent mountebanks and mummers." Those
who Will may compare the dignifed and
logical arguments OF General Palmer
with the shallow defamation, the plati-
tudcs and catch-phrases, dispensed by
demaEoGuoS from Popocrntic platforms,
and draw their own conclusions. I'm
pudent imposltors." But who suffered
imposition? Did the Indianapolis
ticket obtain any votes under false pre-
lenses? Objects OF almost universal
contempt and rIdlcule." Well. no. OBJ
jects OF ~ridiculc. no doubt. to those who.
Ike the Post, considers devotion 20
principle an occasion OF merriment.
Treated with dcr!s!on by such rufians as
those who composed the mob at Fayet,e,
Missouri. which offered physical v!o-
lcncc 10 the whlte-halred veterans. But
the time has not yet come In this country
and is not coming. when men shall be
held In contempt by the mass OF their
fcllow-6tizens because they face defeat
standing for the truth.