Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1896-10-21
WASHINGTON LETTER.
WASHINGTON, D. G.. Oct. Is. ,ss.


up their assumption of confidence in
Bryan's election with figures showing
the doubtful States in which their can
vass was making any gains is proof
enough, If proof were needed, that
their latest bluff belongs to the same
category with those they were making
few weeks ago about the increase of
silver sentiment in New England and
New York and their certainty of carry
ing those States, and is doubtless in-
tended to cover up the scheme of the
silver barons 20 abandon Bryan and
concentrate their time and attention
to trying to retain the silver majority
in the next Senate, for the purpose of
preventing tariff legislation in the
next Congress by adding free coinage
amendment in the Senate to any tariff
able that their alleged confidence has
not caused any Popocrat to cover any
of the Mckinley money that is still
being offered everywhere at big odds.
Republicans are satisfied with the sit
uation and certain of McKinley's
election, and are working and will
continue to work to make it tidal
wave.
Mr.. Bryan's record, short as it is,
has been full of Inconsistencies. For
instance, he never makes speech of
any length now that he does otcharge
the gold standard with being solely
responsible for the lowering of prices,
yet when he was in Congress, he had a
very different idea of the cause of
lower prices, or at least he said he had.
He used the following language in a
speech made on the floor of the House
a little more than four years ago: you
must attribute il to the inventive
genius that has multiplied thousand
times, in many instances, the strength
of single arm, and enables us to do
today with one man what fifty men
could not do fifty years ago. That is
what has brought down prices in this
country and elsewhere "
Since the Popocrats were foolish
enough, in view of Bismark's very
pronounced anti silver official record,
to try to use the letter written by him
in reply to one from Gov. Culbertson,
of Texas, as a campaign argument in
favor of the free coinage of silver, at
tention has been drawn to the writings
of the German advocates of silver, and
wide difference is found in the argu.
ments they advance and those put forth
by Mr., Bryan and his followers. Mr..
Bryan tells his hearers every time he
makes a speech about the great bene.
fits the cheaper dollar would bring the
wage Garner, while the ablest of the
German bimetallists argue that "a
cheapening Of the money would bring
| about an immediate raise in the price
of everything except human labor.
Prof Wagner says: "Wages are the
| things that increase most slowly. All
| classes who have fixed incomes lem
ployes and workingmen) suffer especi
ally under the increase in the price Of
food, and Herr Scheille says: "Wages
and salaries will increase neither at
once nor in general nor in proportion
to the depreciation" Palmer yet was
the language used in the German Diet
by Count Mirbach one of the silver
leaders. He said: "In an article of the
Munich Nachrichten it is said: All ar
ticles of food and necessities of life
will increase at once, while wages will
be increased but slowly. Well, gentle
men, that is exactly what we want" ="
Surely that is not what is wanted by
the wage earners of the Uuited States.
The Ohio Republicans who come to
Washington have not heard anything
about that rumored Republican scare
in that State, and Washington man
has deposited $500 in local bank
with instructions to bet it against 81 900
that Mckinley carries Ohio. Charles
NJ. Wilkins, of Warren, Ohio, now
visiting Washington, says: THE State
is safe for the Republicans by at least
40, 600 majority. In my town | know
of but one Republican who has been
converted to the silver cause, while l
know dozens of Democrats who will
vote for Palmer or Mckinley. Our
county is one of the first in agriculture,
but thore is no free silver craze among
our farmers, and they will stick to the
party they have supported so long and
80 faithfully. Bryan is absolutely dis.
tanced in Ohio. "
When Mr.. Bryan called manufacture
ers robbers and committee of glass
makers who appeared before the
House Ways and Means Committee, of
which he was u member, to ask that
their occupation should not be de.
stroyed by the Wilson Tariff Bill, then
beingiconcocted, public beggars," he
probably did not think that he would
at this time be travelling around the
country asking the public beggars' to
vote for him. The following version
of the occurrence has been given by the
glassworkers who were present, and
has heen sworn to by them: when
Sellers Mckee Ia glass manufacturer
started to explain the benefit a tariff
was to him Mr.. Bryan exclaimed 'Oh,
you manufacturers are robbers AT
this one of the members of the Work
ers' Committee turned to Mr.. Bryan
and said: If the manufacturers are
robbers what are wep' You are pub
lie beggars,' replied Mr.. Bryan and SC
is every body else that asks for q pro
tective tariff that will benefit him. y"
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