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Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-28

Car and see our All Wool Suits. made
20 order in The latest styles for sl5.
Jos. Winiesdorffer Merchant Tailor
and Gents Furnisher, 1858 Market
street.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-28
KILLED IN A SAW MILL.

Special 90 the REGISTER.
Charleston, W. Va. March 27-Hayes
Webb was instantly killed and Frank
Rice WAS badly injured at a saw mill
i'm ST. Adams to-day.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1896-03-28
$40 REWARD.

The above Reward will be
paid to any ore who will secure
the arrest and conviction Of the
person or persons who aren now
regularly stealing the DAILY
and SUNDAY REGISTER on the
Island and North Main street
West Virginia Printing co.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
FOREIGNERS FOR BRYAN.
Thinks His Election nay Avert Seri-
Gus Agrarian and Social Troubles
i'm Europe.

New York, Sept. 2O.-The World
tomorrow will print special cablegram
from Buda-Pesth, Hungary, which fol-
lows:
The following cable message, signed
by delegates to the International Agri-
cultural Congress called at Buda-P esth
by the Hungarian minister of agriculture,
has been sent to the Democratic candi-
date for president of the United States ::
TIC William Jennings Bryan, Head
quarters Democratic Party, Chicago:
1--WE, the undersigned members of the
International Agricultural Congress, con-
vened at Buda-Pesth, wish you success
in your struggle against the domination
of the creditor class which during the
past twenty-three years has secured, both
in America and in Europe, monetary
leg islation. destructive of the prosperity
of your farmers and others.
Should you be victorious in Novem-
Der, we pledge ourselves to spare no
effort to bring immediate pressure upon
our respective governments to cooperate
with the government of your great ma
ton in restoring silver to the world S
currency.
1--WE believe that, failing such resto-
ration, the gold premium throughout
Asia and South America will continue
to rob the farmer, equally of America
and Europe, of all rewards for his toll,
and that your election may avert from
Europe serious agrarian troubles now
pending.
Count Alexander Karolyi, President
Hungarian Chamber of Commerce.
D. Baudin, President of Society of
Agriculture in Holland.
Alphonse Allard, administrators central
chamber of agriculture, in Belgium
Van Kardorf, member German reich
stag.
George Boutmy, Imperial Society of
Agriculture, Russia.
William Field, member of Parliament.
Count Kolorwat, Austria.
Otto Arendt, Prussian diet.
Won Ploetz Dellingen, member Ger
man reichstag.
Meyer Rottsmandorff, member Ger
man reichstag.
Henry Segnier, France.
Van Sydow DobberphaIl. Prussia.
Emil Achendorff, Prussia.
Leon Raffalovitch, president Azof
bank, of Russia.
sRaeder, Denmark.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22


March IL last, motion in the chamber
signed by BAT deputies. in favor OF a
fixed ratio. AT least two-thirds of the
senate approved this motion, among
others, M. Loubet. its president
To be brief, am of the opinion that
the free coinage of silver in the United
States at 16 to 1, without the concur
renee Of other nations will bring inter
national bimetallism. OF course, there
would be premium on gold, and all
internal business would be done on
silver dollar basis, because the holders
OF gold would want their profit, but this
would not lead to silver recommendation,
because the economic conditions of your
great country are totally different from
those others who cannot keep gold in
circulation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22

By paying the mintage anyone can
take silver bullion to either of the minis
in Mexico and get Mexican silver dol
lars for it, and for twenty-five years
silver bullion has never f1uctuated up or
down to exceed two cents.
81 hear it asserted that the national
debt is payable in gold. l brand this
as utterly false. Every dollar of the
debt. s156, 600, 600. is and always has
been payable in the lawful money of that
country, and we are now paying our
debt in Mexican silver dollars, the money
of the contract
81 assert that Mexico in the present
ment greater than any other nation on
earth. Twenty-Five years ago we had
80 miles of railroad, now we have nearly
5000 miles of railroad. We are build
ing factories on every hand. Twenty
eight years ago, when the French army
was driven out, the Mexican govern
ment was left penniless, not dollar in
the treasury. We can now pay our en-
tire national debt any day a demand
would be made for it.
Il am now on my way to Mexico to
spend the rest of my life. Anyone can
find me by addressing letter to James
H. Kennedy, Sinaloa, Mexico.
In conclusion invite an honest and
thorough investigation into the facts of
my statement and defy successful con-
tradiction. l am not the owner of min
ing stocks and no personal interest has
caused me to make this statement, but
have given it by request of an old COM
rade.
JAMES H. KENNEDY.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
LIES ABOUT MEXICO"
Kicked Higher'n Perkins Pill-Box by
Affidavits and Letters.

EAST and West, Pen Yam, n. Y.
The mounting falsehoods that the
goldbeggar-b have poured out
about Mexico and other silver standard
nations have at last aroused just and
violent resentment. Every well-read
man knows that since this nation took
the goldbeggar- breeding leprosy to its
bosom it has been swept by bosom of
desolation-while the silver nations are
rising to pinnacle of prosperity. The
following affidavit is taken from the
Chicago Record:
Des Moines, Iowa, Aug. 31.-J. H.
Kennedy, a former resident of Iowa,
has attached the statements so generally
made regarding Mexico and silver by
making the following affidavit before E.
H. English, notary public at Valley
Junction:
Il, James H. Kennedy, now resi-
dent of Sinaloa, Mexico, do solemnly
swear that l am an American by birth :
that served three years in the 7th Iowa
during the late civil war; that I have
always been Republican; that have
resided in Mexico for twenty-five years !;
that speak the Spanish language as
well or better than I now do the Eng
iish. have travelled through twenty
four of the twenty-seven states of Mex
leo in an official capacity and as
interpreter for numerous syndicates.
chives of that country. l am better &C.
quainted with the customs and usages
of that country than am of my mother
country. / left Mexico on the second
day of March, 1895, coming to this
country to visit my friends. relatives and
old comrades. During the last month
in Iowa have heard more absurd and
to Mexico than / ever thought could be
conjured up by mortal man, all to de-
ceive the voter.
lone most heard is that you can take
one American silver dollar into Mexico
and get two Mexican silver dollars for
it, or that you can get 50-cent meal,
throw down an American dollar, and
they will give you back in change a
Mexican dollar. l brand this as utterly
false in every respect, lie manufac-
tured out of whole cloth. / assert that a
Mexican will not accept an American
dollar, either gold. silver or paper, for
any amount, but will refer you to a
broker, where you can sell your silver
dollars as bullion for Mexican money,
then they will trade with you. The
largest hotel in the City of Mexico will
not accept American money under any
circumstances, but will invariably refer
you to broker.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22

had left their side He was not stand
ing forth in their defense. Cheap
coats, cheap labor and dear money.
The sponsor and promoter of these pro-
Tossing to stand guard over the welfare
of the poor and lowly! Was there ever
more Inconsistency or reckless assump-
tion?''
What has changed McKinley's views
on silver?
Mr.. Mckinley is now pledged to OPP
pose the coinage of silver dollars. His
price, nomination for president. Whom
will he have to serve, if elected? Ans
wer Money, his master. He will have
no time to think of the poor then. He
has already left their side for 'cheap
coats, cheap labor and dear money. "
Laboring man, business man and farmer,
where do you stand in this crisis?
Think before casting your vote!
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
late as money any length of time. as we
cannot control that -

late as money any length of time, as we
cannot control that. -
The suggestions of this letter have
been fulfilled and are the central issue
of this campaign. To be modern
slave holder and own the profits of labor
of thousands of men and women, is but
to fix public or corporate debts of a
sufficient amount on them, own the
bonds, and receive the interest. The
spirit of this circular appears in Mr..
Gladstone's speech and the extracts
from the British papers quoted else
where. 1t has resulted in 8 per cent of
the families of this country owning II
per cent of the wealth. 1t has been
done almost altogether through special
privileges granted by law. Our debts
average about 1888 for every person, or
81, "A for the average family of FIVE.
Most of this is corporate and public and
reaches everyone. Many people who
think themselves out of debt are paying
interest on more than their 81, "A share
in taxes and in the cost of what they
buy. All are hit.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
TRUSTS AND TRUSTS.
Trusts for Everybody's Benefit Exc
cept the Farmer and Laborer.

There is the sugar trust. the gas trust,
eordage trust, Standard Oil trust, whisky
trust, leather trust, cotton seed oil trust,
live stock trust, dressed beef trust, lead
trust, bicycle trust, tobacco trust. street
railroad trusts, grain elevator trusts,
sleeping car trust, the steel trust. the
nail trust, the glass manufacturers trust.
the soft coal trust, the hard coal trust,
the National Bankers Association and
the steam railroad combine, all riding
Mckinley. They all exist through IN
just privileges granted by law. When
they get off the poor mans crushed
form, the coffin trust will furnish one of
its finest caskets to bury him in.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
The rIodern Slavery.

The following circular known as the
Hazard Circular was sent by London
capitalists to New York capitalists in
1852:
Slavery is likely to be abolished by
the war power, and -ehattel slavery de-
stroyed. This, 1 and my European
friends are in favor of, for slavery is
but the owning of labor and carries with
it the care for the laborer, while the
European plan, led on by England, is
for capital to control labor by controll-
ing the wages. THIS CAN BE DONE
BY CONTROLLING THE MONEY.
The great debt that capitalists will see
to it is made out of the war must be
used as means to control the volume
OF money. To accomplish this the
bonds must be used as banking basis.
We are now waiting for the secretary of
the treasury to make the recommenda-
ton to congress. 1t will not do to allow
the greenback, as it is called, to circu-
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
Bryan in 1893.

You may think that you have buried
the cause of bimetallism you may con-
graduate yourselves that you have laid
the free coinage of silver away in a
sepulchre, newly-made since the cleo
ton, and before the door rolled the veto
stone. But, sirs, if our cause is just,
as believe it is, your labor has been
IN vain; no tomb was ever made so
strong that it could imprison righteous
cause. Silver will lay aside its grave
clothes and its shroud. 1t will yet rise,
and in its rising and its reign will bless
mankind
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
Mckinley Denounces Cleveland.
For Discrediting Silver and Enhanc'
ing the Price of Gold.

The following is a verbatim extract
from the address of William Mckinley
at the Lincoln Day banquet, in Mem
orial Hall. Toledo. O., February II,
1891:
During all of Grover Cleveland's
years at the head of the government he
was dishonoring one of our precious
metals, one of our own great products,
discrediting silver and enhancing the
price OF gold. He endeavored even be-
fore his Inauguration to office, to stop
the coinage of silver dollars. and after
ward, and to the end of his administra-
ton, persistently used his power to that
end. He was determined to contract the
circulating medium and to demonetize
one of the coins of commerce, limit the
volume of money among the people,
make money scarce and therefore dear.
He would have increased the value of
money and diminished the value of
everything else money the master.
everything else the servant. He was
not thinking of the poor then. He
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
James q. Blaine.

II believe the struggle now going on
in this country and in other countries
for a single gold standard would, if
successful, produce widespread disaster
in and throughout the commercial
world. The destruction of silver as
money and establishing gold as the sole
unit of value, must have a ruinous effect
on all forms of property except those
investments which yield a fixed return
in money"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
KEEP 1T BEFORE THE PEOPLE.
The Republican Party Has Adam
doned Its Principles for Gold.
1T Is NOW SERVING THE EASTERN
Honey Power Instead of Fulfilling Its
Past PledgeS.-Read the Record
MADE BY KANSAS REPUBLICANS.

Republican State Platform, 1890:
The practical operation of the silver
act now in force, recently passed by
Republican majority in both houses of
congress, is rapidly Increasing the value
of silver, is a good step in the right di-
rection; but we, the Republicans of
Kansas, demand the free coinage of
silver.
Republican State Senate Resolution:
WHEREAS, The recent action of the
Senate of the United States in promptly
passing the free coinage of silver bill is
move in the direction of the restora-
ton of prices and property to the agri-
cultural industry: therefore be it
ResOfUed, That the senate of the
State of Kansas urge upon the national
house of representatives the prompt con-
currence in the passage of the senate
silver bill; that this body, representing
the Republicans of Kansas, respectfully
but earnestly request our delegation in
congress to insist, in the West,O upon the
passage of the bill and its approval by
the Republican executive asobeing in
line with Republican pledges.
by Republican State Senate January %.
1891, by a vote of "a to 8.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
THE GRIP OF GOLD.
Concluded.

CONCLUDED.
inimical and prejudicial to English
manufactures and trade.
The American people cling with won
derful tenacity to party organizations,
but financial embarrassment and bust
ness stagnation has become too severe
for their patience, and they are ready for
any change that promises relief. They
are becoming convinced that it cannot
be found in the protection theory, as
that has been tried, and they are mass
ing now on free silver. When that
issue comes fairly before the American
people, England will regret her apathy
and adherence to the single gold stand
ard.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22

From the Topeka Capital
The Capital wishes to send a short
message to congress. 1t will be brief, but
important to the West. 1t is this: Stop
your windy speeches about the election
bills; pass the Plumb measure for the
free coinage of silver and give the
country one or two hundred millions
more of paper currency.
1t is not as long as the presidents
message, but it will do the country and
the Republican party more good, if it is
acted upon, than dozen messages like
the last one. The West and South are
growing very tired of seeing the money
influences of the East stop the promised
financial legislation.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
Views of French BimetaIIists.

Edouard Fougeirol, senator, says:
Il consider that the return to the free
and unlimited coinage of silver by the
United States, even without any inter
vention on the part of Europe, would
have a decisive influence for the ulti-
mate success of international bimetal-
lism
1.-The principal adversaries of BIZ
metallism at the present time are the
great English bankers.
1.-The only resolute adversaries of BIZ
metallism are, repeat. the great British
6nanciers.
M. Edmond Thery is leader of
French bimetallism, founder of the
French Bimetallic League, of which NJ.
Meline Loubet, president of the senate,
and Maguin, governor of the Bank of
France, are members. He is also edi-
tor of Economist European, and author
of number of works on currency. He
said in reply to the three questions:
Free and unlimited coinage of silver
by the United States at 16 to 1 would
exercise a considerable, even decisive
influence. The fall of silver in 1893,
after the closing of the Indian minis,
and the repeal of the Sherman act, with
their effects on agriculture, first created
popular interest in international BIZ
metallism. But the fall of agricultural
and commercial prices in 1898 produced
a strong French movement. which ended
in M. Meline bringing forward on
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
David B. Hill.

Extract from his speech three years
ago in the senate on the repeal of the
Sherman purchase law.
Il do not believe in a single gold
standard nor a single silver standard,
but do believe in the use of both gold
and silver as the standard money OF the
country and in their free coinage at our
minis at proper ratio and without dis
elimination of one metal as against the
other.
THE Sherman law is Objectionable
because it directs the purchase of silver
instead of providing for the free coinage
of silver. Purchase means price, price
means commodity, and the treatment of
silver as a commodity means its deroga-
tion from its intrinsic rank as a money
metal. Gold has free coinage, and hence
it has no price in the United States. 1t
has the right of free coinage into full
legal tender for the people who bring it,
to any amount, TO the minis. Silver
coming nations have not purchased
silver. They coin it for the people just
as gold coming nations coin gold. 1t is
the absence of the free coinage of silver.
the existence of limited and restricted
coinage that compels government pur-
chases of silver, and such purchases alb
solutely prevent parity. Free metallic
coinage is essential to the parity of the
two metals, and nothing else will sue
cessfully and satisfactorily maintain
such parity.
The British new-fangled theory of
gold monometallism is an ignorant, in
sular, weak-minded theory, like their
theory of taxation without representation
before 1776. Return to the BIZ
metallism of 1873. 1t is a permanent
remedy for our financial difficulties.
Free silver coinage has not failed.
The country has not tried free coinage
since it was unwittingly abandoned in
1873, but it has tried a limited and re-
striCted coinage. Silver purchases, the
accumulation of silver bullion and de-
preciated currency, all of which have
been forced upon the country by mono
metallists through miserable compro-
misses obtained from silver money. Why
not try the only remedy that has not yet
been applied The insuf6ciency of our
present volume of currency seems to be
everywhere conceded, and yet there is
an unaccountable reluctance to establish
a permanent financial system under
which that deficiency can be easily sup
piled.
1T is said that the president mess
age contemplates the establishment of
gold standard as the policy of this
country. If he really favors the single
gold standard. absolutely decline to
follow him in his new departure. I
shall refuse to follow any administration
which seeks to place the Democratic
party in false position, which seeks to
lead it away from its traditions, away
from the currency of our fathers, away
from the path of safety, away from Dem
ocratic principles and platforms and
into the camp of the enemy. The presi-
dent must rely upon Republican votes
to carry out any such suicidal policy"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
General Logan's Prophecy.

Extract from speech in the senate on
withdrawal of treasury notes.
81, for one, can see benefit only to the
money holder and those who receive in
terest and have fixed incomes. / can
see as result of this legislation our
business operations crippled and wages
for labor reduced to a mere pittance-
can see the beautiful prairies of my own
State and of the great West, which are
blooming as gardens, with cheerful
homes rising like white towers along the
pathway of improvement, again sinking
back to idleness. / can see mortgage
fends at their hellish work / can see
the hopes of the industrious farmers
blasted as they burn corn for fuel be-
cause its price will not pay the cost of
transportation and dividends on mil
lions of dollars of fictitious railway
stocks and bonds. ! can see our people
of the West groanin9 and burdened
under taxation to pay debts of States,
counties and cities incurred when money
was more abundant and bright hopes of
the future were held out to lead them
on. / can see the people of our western
States, who are producers, reduced to
the condition of serfs to pay interest on
public and private debts to the money
SHARKS of Wall Street. New York. and of
Threadneedle Street. London, England. IS
and to Bryan Free Silver
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1896-10-22
REQUIRES REIMBURSEMENT.
Extract from a Speech by John J.
Ingalls, In the U. S. Senate, Janu-
airy ii, 1891.

"A financial system under which
more than one-half of the enormous
wealth of the country, derived from the
bounty of nature and the labor of all, is
owned by little more than 80, 600 peo-
pie, while 1000, 600 American citizens,
able and willing to toll, are homeless
tramps, starving for bread, requires
readjustment. -