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Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
COERCION ROT.

Indianapolis News: "Never before in the
history of this country has intimidation and
terrorizing been carried to the extent that
1t Is being carried in this campaign" This
statement was made by Mr.. Bryan in his
speech at Tomlnson hall last night. 1t is
not enough to say that it is untrue. 1t Is
foully and wickedy false. Intimidation and
terrorizing are impossible under the Aus
tralian ballot as Bryan himself proceeded
to show.
Buffalo Express Workingmen are declar-
ing their preference for the republican can
didate in unprecedented numbers this year.
They are doing SO openly, and the demo-
cratic managers are unable to conceal the
fact either from themselves or the public.
Democratic politics requires some explana-
tion. So the cry is raised that the working
men are being coerced 1t is a nonsensical
cry, since coercion is impossible with the
Australian ballot, but the democratic man
ayers must say something. Coercion"
means that the democratic managers know
the workingmen are going to vote for Nc
Kinley, and that is all 1t means.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
INSnLrING DEMOrRATS.

Mr.. Bryan evidently feels very bitter
toward those democrats who are Oppos-
ing his election and who repudiate the
Chicago platform as undemocratic. In
nearly every speech he has made since
the indianapolis convention he has re-
ferred depreciatingly and insultingly to
the sound money democrats his Ian
guage showing increasing vindictiyness.
In his speech at Burlington, Ia, he
spoke of these democrats as having been
dragged out of the democratic party
because they were more attached to the
great corporate interests of the coun-
try than they We're to the welfare of the
people.
Who are the men whom this parvenu
politician and financial charlatan thus
insults? They are men who have been
all their lives devoted to democratic
principles, who have given character
to the democratic party, who have hon
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
FREE SILVER AND A PANIC.
Cheap Money Doctors Disagree on an
Important Point.

Cheap Money Doctors Disagree on nn
Important Point.
The Denver Republican scouts the claim
that financial panic would follow the
success of free silver at the polls, In its
Issue of the Sth inst. it says:
Opponents of free coinage assert that
in the event of Bryan's election this country
will be visited with the worst panic in its
history This assertion has doubtless had
great influence with some people who have
not studied the question carefully, and yet
as matter of fact conditions are such that
panic Is practically impossible"
Leading organs and members OF the free
silver crusade do not agree with the Repub-
lican. Moreton Frewen the British bimetal-
list and American mine owner, arrived in
New York a few days ago to lend his in
fuence to the free silver campaign. In an
Interview with a reporter of the New York
Sun, FreweD had this to say respecting a
free silver panic
asked fatty If he did not mean by the
suggestion of trouble that a panic would
follow the election of a free silver ticket
Mr., Frewen deliberated a little, and said;
That is probably true. You had a panic
In 1898, You would doubtless have another
II the silver candidate were elected. / do
not think 1t would be very disastrous,
though. You see, English investors are
quite ignorant regarding the silver question.
They would very likely unload their Amer
lean holdings promptly, and that action
would cause an unsettlement of prices and
business. think, though, that after the re-
covery from the panic which would result
things would arrange themselves, business
would settle down to a steady basis, and
everybody would be better off, When the
English investors unloaded it would be a
good time for Americans to buy their securi-
ties
THE English bimetalist spoke OF panic
as though 1t were little business furry
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
PASSING SILVER BY LAW.

Mr.. Bryan points to the act of 1880,
recurring the government to purchase
4 100000 ounces of silver monthly. as
evidence that the value of silver can be
raised by law. Now what are the
facts? At the beginning of the year
1890 silver sold for 441Sd in London, the
equivalent New York price being a lit
tie under 9S cents per fine ounce.
Toward the latter part of April there
was a speculative advance in both mar
kets. According to the report of the
director of the mint, to July Ia, the date
of the passage of the new law, the price
had advanced in London to 49Ad and
in New York to $1.OS per fine ounce.
To the 18th of August, the date the law
went into effect, the price had advanced
to SLID in London and in New York to
$1.13 per fine ounce The highest point
touched was in New York on August
10, S1.21 per fine ounce, Che highest
price reached in twelve years., and in
London Or September 3, 543sd (S1.19T5j
per fine ounce. The price in New York
did not vary materially from August
10 to September 3, when decline COM
menced, extending, with some fluctua-
tions. to the end of the calendar year,
the price at the close being in London
4Sd and in New York $1.Oi50. The
price of silver declined in the New York
market, with corresponding drop in
London, to an average value per fine
ounce of 9S cents iii 1891, 81 cents in
1882, 7S cents in 1893, the year of the
repeal of the purchasing clause of the
Sherman act. 1t will thus be seen that
while the first effect of the law, which
provided for the purchase by the govern
ment of nearly the entire silver product
of the country at the time, was to ad-
vance the price through the encourage
ment given to speculation it lasted less
than n month after the law went into
effect and decline ensued. The eXper-
ience under the operation of that act,
which the silver men said would GER
tainly carry silver to S1.29 an ounce,
conclusively proves that the value of
silver cannot be raised and maintained
Inv law.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

1t may be prudent to wait for more
accurate returns from Georgia before
basing predictions upon the earlier re-
ports. They have unique methods OF
counting votes in the south. Full re
bered, cut down the democratic majority,
claimed as soon as the polls closed, by
thousands of v6tesI The result in Maine
and Vermont, however, was all one way
from the start, and the totals grew
steadily in the direction of honest
% III
money. ri .. ..... ..
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
The Record UP TO pate.


NeW YORK World.
What the farmer needs is not n cheaper
dollar. but that larger market which an in
crease In population can give him. SO long
as there Is wheat enough in the world to
supply all the people with all they want of
1t at so or so or 20 cents bushel, its price
will not go to a dollar. To change the
meaning of the word dollar that 1t will
signify so or 60 or 20 cents will not increase
values to the farmer except in so far as 1t
will enable him to cheat his creditor. But
it will make disastrous difference to the
workingman. His wages, as measured by
that term, would not advance under the
change az all in proportion TO the unreal
advance in prices.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
MONEM ENTAL LIARS.

Special Dispatch to the world-Hcrald.
CHICAGO, ILL.,. Oct. 8.-The Mckinley
goldbug combine is on the run. Its leaders
admit as much, while the leaders of the
free silver party are growing more and
more confident Mark Hanna, chairman of
the Mckinley national committee, says:
at is no use denying that we have lost
the farmer and labor vote. Our chances
are exceedingly doubtful"
Chairman Bynum of the goldbug national
committee says: rI a.....
Anybody who talks about what Indiana
and Illinois will do does not know what
he Is talking about: In southern Illinois l
know the whole country is for silver The
situation is just the same all over the west,
so far as can learn" f
What Il brace of monumental liars
Mr.. Hanna never said any such thing.
The editor of The Bee had n personal
talk with Mr.. Hanna at national head
quarters at IL a. m. Thursday, October
8. He never was more cheerful nor
more confident of. the election of Me
Kinley. All the reports at headquarters
We're most encouraging, particularly
those from labor centers. While we do
not know what Mr.. Bynum did say, we
know what he did not say. He may
have said that southern Illinois, other
wise known as Egypt is for silver. 1t
was for secession in 1861 and against
silver or any other metallic money in
1872 and 1876 But we venture to AS
sert that Mr. Bynum never said that
''the whole country is for silver" Mr..
Bynum is not reputed to be BANKED
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
WHO ARE THE SHYLOCKS.
Ten Million Persons Constitute the
.'Moncy Power"

Ono Of the many deusioDs back Of the
free coinage sophstry is that there are a
few wealthy creditors and millions OF poor
debtors in this country. Every one who
has deposit in a savings or other bank,
every holder of life insurance policy, every
pensioner every member of building and
loan association, every member Of aid or
benefit associations, every owner of a gov
ernment bond. every one whose salary or
wages Is paid only after services or labor
are performed-these are some of the cred
itor classes. These are the shylocks who
have a mortgage on this country and who
are to be done out of half of their savings
by the slick 16-to-1 scheme. En- truth, these
shylocks not only own the country but they
have votes enough to compel the poor"
debtors to pay in honest money. Let us
enumerate some Of them and see how much
they would lose under the free coinage of
50-cent dollars:
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Chairman Butler of the populist ma
tional committee reasserts his belief
that indications show 232 electoral votes
reasonably" certain for Bryan. But he
dare not go into details, because he can
not point where more than half of them
are to come from. II is also Specification
justified in even making a claim for
the populist end of the tripartite ticket.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
Why This Mndness'
BaItINlQre ISun ldemD

1t is difficult, SSeIsay to reconcile the
increasing violence and bitterness of Ian
guage on Mr. Bryan's part with that serene
and tranquil confidence in the certainty Of
his own election that is expressed in thf
authorized and signed statement given ou
by him on Saturday at Cincinnati-'I have
no doubt OF nay election" Then what il
he SO mad about, and why does he appear
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Sewall might write several more let
ters of acceptance that would be very
acceptable to the pOpocratic managers
provided he accompanied each of them
with good substantial check.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

The frequent calls of the comptroller
of the currency for national bank state
ments bring home to every one the care
which the government exercises in the
supervision of these banking institu-
tinns
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

WHY is not the stereopticon which was
promised by the republican central com
mittee as an adjunct to local campaign
work brought into service without
further delay? There would be nothing
like ii, on these mild evenings, for get
ting people together for instruction on
the issues of the hour.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

The news that hard coal has again
gone up is not calculated to reassure
those citizens who omitted to contract
for their winters supply of that com.
modify during the few minutes that
prices were down"
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

"Business confidence" says Mckinley
sis what the country wants" 1t had
business confidence when the re-
publicans were in control of the govern
ment under President Harrison. 1t Will
have business confidence again when the
republicans are restored to power under
Mckinley
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

The republican city convention which
meets today should not forget that there
is an existing vacancy in one of the po-
sitions of councilman at-large created by
the death of the late Councilman Du
Bois Under the statutes of Nebraska
men appointed to fill vacancies in office
hold only until the qualification of their
successors chosen at the next general
election. There is no question that
the democrats will put up candidate
for councilman-at-large and if the re-
publicans refuse to make Il nomination
they will only run the risk of letting one
councilman go by default. The pre-
tense that the council has by ordinance
overridden the statute cannot be eX-
pected to hold water in any court of
justice. The only thing for the conven-
ton to do is 80 nominate Il candidate for
the councilmanic vacancy and then if
the present incumbent wants to take the
matter into the courts, the responsibility
will rest on him.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

When it is notorious that ballot box
frauds are the common practice in all
of the black-belt southern states it Is
the height of absurdity to point to elec-
ton returns from such states as having
any important bearing upon the general
result in states where fair elections ana
an honest count prevail.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

The local Bryan organ says the popo-
cratic state committees have as yet had
little or no money to meet expenses.
What became of all the money that was
raised by that assessment ON Nebraska
postmasters? We were told that nearly
every postmaster in the state responded
to the call What has been done with
tho money!
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Count Florida out from now on from
the list of states that furnish the Oc-
tober elections. Florida has just
adopted constitutional amendment
which for the future gives 1t Il Noyem-
ber election that includes the choice OF
both state and federal officers.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

The wooing of thd old soldier vote by
the free silver press is not likely TO be
sneers and insults are continually hurled
by these papers against the brave gen
erals whom the old soldiers still love
and reverence
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Mr.. Bryan's paper prints long arti-
Gle about an English insurance company
that issues policies to insure their hold
might persuade the company to give him
Il policy insuring him against twins on
the tail of his ticket should he ever have
occasion to run for Office again in the
future
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Now watch the Fake-Mill get up n
fake subscription list in response to its
call for contributions to the Bryan
campaign fund. Let any contributor
demand that the concern show the cash
and see 1t retreat from its bluff,
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

The center of political activity and the
center of population have almost be-
come identified in this campaign. In
no presidential contest of previous years
so far west
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

There are indications that the present
price Of wheat is not based Oh speculation,
but on actual crop conditions, and we may
accordingly expect II to be maintained.
This will be a double benefit. 1t will re-
lieve the agricultural interests by putting
more money in the farmers pocket and 1t
will relieve the entire population by re-
moving one argument from the demagogue's
mouth
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

The man who tried to create a COM
motion in Paris during the ears visit
by means of fake bomb ought TO be
pop0cratic fake bureau conducted In
connection with the popocratic national
headquarters at Chicago.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

There are only two ways to stop treas
ury deficits. One is to increase the
revenue, the other to decrease the ex-
penses of the government. The repub-
lican party promises to utilize both
m
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Nowhere in the federal constitution is
1t provided that oratorical ability shall
be the sole qualification for the posi-
tion of president Of the United States.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Chicag0tTribune.

Mr.. Bryan says Ahe would resign his
nominations in favor of any person in this
country who can better carry this cause
to victory." but it should be understood at
the same time thatN 1t will require very
strong evidence to'upset his conviction that
there is no such person.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

The Bryanites are ardently advocating
this conspiracy against the interest Of the
American people. If intelligent men would
stop long enough to explain to the common
people the effect of the Bryan scheme on
their interests the majority that would be
rolled up against it would exceed ten mil
lions OF votes. Bryan has no supporters
outside of poor, ignorant, deceived, blind
who are anxious to cheat their creditors
out OF one-half what they owe them by
means of debasing the money in circulation
by so per cent.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

And now the awful discovery Is made
in danger of falling. But so long as
Justice still remains firmly enthroned
at its top, the republic will survive.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

"The idea that the government can
create wealth is myth. The only thing
that can create wealth is labor."-Wil-
liam Mckinley.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

or course this is not Il personal cam
paign. That is why the popocratic or
gaDs have to attack Mr.. Hanna and Mr..
Hanna is not running for Office, either.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Talking n person into presidential
nomination is altogether different from
talking person into an election to the
presidency.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

Mr.. "Coin' Harvey keeps on speaking
In Iowa for silver, but in Illinois his
surplus cash is locked up in safety
deposit vault in the form Of gold coin.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10

There has never before been candidate
for the presidency who Travelled so far,
talked so much and said so little as Mr..
Rryan
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
TIE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE.
YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO MISS IT.

The government that reduces the pur-
chasing power Of it's money reduces the
value of its own revenue.
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION.

State OF Nebraska,
Douglas County. -. ,,,
George b. Tzschuck, secretary OF The zee fuD- NJ
fishing company. being duly sworn. says that the
actual number Of full and complete copies OF Ihe
Daily, Morning. Evening and Sunday BE prihteh
during the month Of September, 1896, was as iol-
Omaha daily bee., 1896-10-10
The Advance In wheat.

to be getting msdder and madder every
day.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1896-05-29
From Foreign shores.

Arch0pkc Charles Louis Of Austria.
eldest brother Of Emperor Joseph. is
dead at tie age If ii years.
Tie British political situation Is COLI
siacred serious and the home rule
=earsc ieepariizgd because the Irish
members supported the government.
The sentence OF imprisonment. fine
and bani>Innent Of the members Of the
reform committee las been confirmed
.hy the Tfansyaal executive.
Gen Nieuma is dead Of yellow fever
II Carralm Falso. in Matanzas prov
ince where he has been sick for sey-
eral days past Gen. Bernal will take
command Of lis column Of troops.
\ dispatch from Eingenhruck. near
RinScn on-the Rhine. announces that
the boiler Of tug exploded there
sinkin. two harges. killing eight pea-
llc and iningin- many others.
At Il meeting of tile anti-rarnellites
john Dillon presiding il Was decided
10 make an earnest effort to bring
about a reeeneil alton with the farneli-
ties. and 20 reconstruct Il united home
rule party.
Sir John Russell Reynolds, physie
iii in ordinary 10 her Maiesty's house
bold and president Of tn" Royal Col
lege OF Physicians. Is III Il critical con
elition AMI IS growing weaker. Sir
John is IS, wears old
The German clergy. Protestant and
Catholic ale thoroughly aroused in
consequence of Emperor Williams s
telegram to Geheimrath Ilinzpter. re-
1aldin@ nr >toeeller, the eX-eourt
chaplain. which said The clergy
must not NEEDLE With politics because
It is Lo concern Of theirs
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1896-05-29

Miss Na@gir Wells, daughter "t
vol3,u-la PARENTS If Nlttstirld, Ill,
committed suicide 10y taking strFchtne.
Burglars entered the r"sidrnr" Of {.
Thollcy. Of Springfield. Ill, ana Sc
cured $3.50 IL cash. No Clue 10 the
ruhnrt>
Jclu Wells. alias Charles Polk. a
negro d,Spt~&do, wanted at Council
pruHs for highway robbery. was ar
rested 1t Newton, Ia.
GOV. Alt-cld has restored the rights
If citizenship to Lyman Wagner OF
Peoria. who served fifteen years Ill
the state renitcItialy at Joliet for a
criminal assault
Harry IluWarth. the -6-ycar-old son
Of one Of the most prominent ana
Well-to-do farmers Of tlcnWood. Ia.
shot himself because lis parents Oh
icctcd 10 lis sweetheart.
george Thorpe of FL PaSo, III. no-
lice magistrate recently elected on The
anti-liccnse Observation-Disclosures III
eEl.-lccuse ticket was found dead on
tie lutt floor Of his barn. Foul play
Is suspected.
Ti,rt has been another Identification
Of Mrs Everett Of Boston" the Col
tl.iLudr hotel suicide This time Judge
Ralph Hill uf Indianapolis asserts she
was th" W.tc Of his son. Edsard t.
Hin who IS AZ present ii London.
WiN Derby Of Knoxville, Tenn, who
kllleG his chlna, LGlAh Cross. and
threw him in well. confessed the
priuIr and was given twenty y-year
sentence They quarreled about a
drink Of water and the murder was Il
my>,tt.A for weeks
The Missouri supreme court has
GCaShcu the haheaS corpus proceedings
uu..t:in. before Judge nohSun OF kan
sas CITY in the case of the negro lnuf-
lercrs. Pollard and Tarris. Unless
G,sv Stone interferes again the prison
er> win he executed May -.
George Bradley. one Of the firm Of
Fludity Brothers, a well known turf
man. had row with Griff \. White, a
stable hand al Lexington. Ky, which
resulted III his jabbin1 ljtchfork into
Whites head The wound caused al
most instant death.
Mrs. NJ Ashkraft, a widow, has
been arrested at Wichita, Kan, OH a
warrant swo,u out hy II, \. Faweett.
Il tailor Who charges that She threw
il kiss at him while lie was with lis
wife aud that il was done with ma
ieIuuS int NJ Mrs. Ashkraft says
that the Kiss was menat for Mrs. IaW<
Cett.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1896-05-29
Washington Talk.

The rortiticatiou hin which raSS'"
the senate appropriated $40, 'N',>~>'
The United States supreme court ms
decided in Chinese case lhal inc
United States cannot PUNISH an "Ii'H
for coming to this country. N.'Ao1'
giving him a trial by Jury.
The confirmation by the seEafc OF
Frank W. Joplin to hc postmaster at
Elizabethtovn. Ky. terminated coh-
test that had been in progress Tor NV"
or three years.
After careful examination The lEcSl-
dent has approved the report "l a ma
val board appointed to prepare Il co0t
e uniform punishmcnts for naval OF
fenseS
The president sent to III" h"Us" hls
veto of bill 10 pension ha%Mi Rat
Ion. as the widow ut lohH A Patton,
u rautaiu in an Illinois regiment The
beneficiary uf the bill had heth dl-
yorced from the soldier.
The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1896-05-29
NiSccii. i.neOus.

Rockford Ilil society women. in
the interest Of charity. ran all the
electric cars Of the city for a day.
Gov. Morton has signed the bill Of
Assemblyman Austin authorizing an
Of coo natrolmon.
Mrs Catherine Alice Tinglcy Of New
York is now the recognized successor
Of the late w g. Judge as the head Of
the TheosopAical society.
Dresser & Goodrich. commission mer-
chants Of New York through their
lawyers. have attached the Goodrich
Rubber company, Newport, X. /, for
SlGS ,OO0
A. q. Putnam. president Of the Cha
drou Banking company Of Ghaaron.
Neb., which went into i receiver. /
hands recently. was arrested for re-
eeiving money when he knew the insti-
tuition WAS lnsolyent.
j. q. NcNeW Of Kokomo. Ind, bought
a suit to BE- buried iii. Before reacl.-
ing home the same evening he was
injured by a horse and lie died from
the wounds. He was 81 years old
and prominent citizen
Morris Iiont, the 19-year-old son Of
Herman Front Of 2O5 Delaney street.
New York, has been unconscious, an
parently sleeping, for the past twenty
one days, and SO far shows no signs
Of awakening
Among the passengers on the steam.
ship China, bound for San Francisco.
is special commission from the Mi
kado of Japan to study the working
Of electrical power and the telephone
systems in the United Statea