The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1896-10-12
Ma yl,p,p,,s BREAKS.
Makes Lame Silver Argument and Dc.
nohnres senator Camden.

ioptSldl, IUIiNNDONutHcc. IN ,EN t-r ~ Fttl
SUTTON. w. Va. Oct. e.-The polltl-
cal temperature Is getting pretty warm
In Braxton. A Eoodly number Of spcnlt-
crs OF more or less distinction. have
come and gone, the last 10 spenk nj SUIT
ton being Prof. r. F. Kidd, OF Chenille,
who spoke last evening 10 a falr.slzetl
audience. Prof. Kidd Is rather ain elo-
quent speaker. aud entertalns crowd
very well. But the professor made some
pretty bad breaks. His text was the
Crime Of a." and he labored very hard
70 show that this Crime" was the cause
or all tho business distress since about
the spring OF 1893. y
He admitted that the country had
been very Prosperous since the close OF
the civil war up TO about 1899, and yet
he attributes the present stngnation In
business to the Crime of twenty-five
years ago. He forgot 10 say n word
about the tarlff--except to say II was
not an ISSUE In this campaign and did
not even call the attention OF his audi
tors TO the fact that the tariff was the
issue In 1889, and the promises then
made OF the prosperous times resulting
II the Democratic party was elected to
power; neither did he speak OF the mis-
cradle failure ofithelr tariff policy, but
was careful 10 avoid all this. He stuck
to his text, the Crime OF 1873" and In
his zeal TO Impress on his hearers the
great benefits resulting from the free
and unlimited coinage OF silver and that
the stamp Of the government would
make loO cents out OF 90 cents worth OF
bullion, referred 10 the trade dollar OF
40 grains as worth only, so cents. when
the. dollar OF 4lsh grains was worth and
passed current for 100 cents. This Is
where the professor made his mistake,
as this Is the milk In the cocoanut. The
dollar OF 4i2k grains Is guaranteed by
resolution OF Congress to be kept ut par
with gold, and the trade dollar had the
stamp OF the government and more all
veT than the standard dollar. but had
no guaranty OF Congress- 10 be kept at
parity with gold: hence 1t circulated at
Its bullion value, just rs the Bryan dol
lar VIII do. Why? Because there will
be no, guarantee back OF It. II will
simply stand on Its own merits, whatev-
er Us bullion value In the commercial
markets. . ,a
II the stamp of the government can
make 50 cents worth of silver worth 100
cents. as Professor Kidd claims II will.
why not stamp piece Of tin and call 1t
a dollar? 1t would not be so heavy to
handle. 10 HGe5
The professor made another assertion
thatseems strange for a man OF his in
formation. In talking OF the "crime OF
1879 as being the cause Of reducing the
value'of silver, he said that II gold was
demonetized, It's bullion value would
not be worth perhaps over 80 cents on
the dollar, and this In the face of the
fact that In all the markets OF the world,
gold Is worth Just as much In bullion
as 1t is in coin. The speaker referred
TO Senator Camden as q man that had
done great things for the Democratic
party and for the material development
OF our state; that he had followed him
thus far. but no further: they had now
come to the parting OF the ways. This
brought lusty cheer from the senator's
old friends OF BraXton. They seem to
have forgotten the substantial aid re-
ceived In former years from the SEN
ator, and from their conduct IL would
seem they have no further use for him.
The speaker criticized Senator Cam
denis speech delivered at the Cochran
meeting at Parkersburg. as untimely
and out OF place. coming from man
that had received such great honors at
The hands OF his party, and especially
did he critlcise the senator's remarks
with reference to what he said about
the payment to the people he Induced to
invest their money in his enterprises In
this state. and in money as good as that
they invested, and not in deprecated
currency.
The professor believing, as does Mr..
Bryan. that for them to succeed in this
campaign 1t Is necessary to array class
angaInst class. labor against capital.
and the poor against the rich, he alluded
TO Mr.. Camden as wanting to pay these
rich people In money that was too
good for the poor or laboring people. and
that silver Notwithstanding 1t would be
worth only. SO cents on the dollar), was
good enough for Mr.. Camden's people
Mr. Kidd failed to tell his audience that
only for Mr.. Camden's energy and en-
terprise. Sutton would have been 20
miles from railroad. but rs he has
seen fit to exercise his rights as an
American freeman anu refuses to follow
the behests Of the Bryanites, he is
classed along with all other gold DEM
ocrats' as a .copDerhead"-a Professor
Kidd In his speech compared the gold
Democrats to the "copperheads" das..
Ing the civil war;. He said they did not
have the patriotism 10 go out and fight
for the union nor the courage TO wear
the gray" so the gold Democrats do
not, according to, the professor. have
the patriotism TO vote for Bryan. nor
the courage to vote for Mckinley. and In
this he characterizes them rs "copper"
hsads" E.i ~