Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1897-02-11
GUY ouito's Letter to Tim Finnegan.
COOK Hollow. ARKANSAS.

Coon Hollow, ARKANSAS,
Nov. 30, 1896.
My DEAR TIM have just finished
this campaign. have elected Mckin-
lev. but it was tough job. ] expect TO
be Secretary of the Treasury, and ii l
am YOU shall be my first assistant; at
least this was what was promised me by
Mark Hanna if would help him and
Nc. TO run the convention. He and Nc.
had a poor show of it until they had
secret consultation with me. They
knew that | could handle the trusts the
railroads and the banking syndicates.
Mark had the money, but he was too UNI
popular. and Nc. knew it; he knew |
had all the popularity, so he sent for me.
Now. Tim, You know how you and al
WAYS did when we praCticed law down
i'm Arkansas-we always went Tor the
biggest pile | was pretty siIlt, and al
ter the subject was introduced Nc.
wanted to know my prices says /, Mr.;
President (Which you are sure 10 be II l
am employed TO run this campaign, my
lowest mark is the Treasury portfolio.
This answer brought the sweat out OF
Nc. for he had promised Mark share
in the divvy on the first BOND sale after
he got in, and he knew that l was 100
honest TO sell bonds while | was Secre-
tarv of the Treasury at y cents when
they were worth "a premium OF sixteen
cents on the market, unless | controlled
the divvv. | knew that Sherman ana
Carlisle both had become rich by selling
bonds while they were Secretary. and l
was lust telling Nc. what Judge Snort
had told me about the profits Hugh Nc
CulIoch had made on gold by contract
inc The currency while hewas Secretary
of the Treasury; but just at this Junct-
ure Marks nose entered the door and |
retired with dignity. | saw the green
in Marks eye rs | passed out They
both knew that there was no 60 unless |
led land Judge Snort were busy with
some law cases after Bryan 5 nomination
when Nc. sent for me again. | and the
Judge had intended TO make the nation
al repositories pay back the Interest they
had kept on the government $ money
that they had loaned to the government
from its own deposits. left all my law
cases i'm charge of The Judge and called
ON Nc. He seemed to be in great trouble;
he said he had made a calculation. and
without the silver men he was short. l
told him that he stood no chance unless
we could get all the negroes and boilers,
so | proposed TO him to see Cleveland
and Carlisle at once, and TO get them TO
hold a Boltocratic convention al Indian
apolis. At this brilliant suggestion NC.
Jumped to his feet at Onceand exclaimed,
what a bewildering intellect. Guy, 90
ahead, | know YOU are trump Of the
first order" He was in for anything
that would make him President and |
knew il. He was Just as plant as he
WAS when framed the first Mckinley
tariff bill for him: when we came 10 the
WOO, schedule in that bill, | believe ne
would have consented to put the whole
sheep in wool, and all for the benefit OF
Ohio. if had told him to do 1t. lie
urged me to go ahead and see them;
there was no time to be lost; than an
archiSt. William Jennings Bryan, was IN
the field making speeches, he called IL
throwing light on that beautiful none
tarv system that had worked all the mon
ey ont of the labOrng men pockets INTO
Mark Hanna's pocket. Well, before l
started to see Cleve and Carl | told Nc.
TO call all his speeches treason, and TO
start Mark after him. and if he could
claw him. to hold him until | organized
the baterS | took some cooked rabbit
and the leg of coon and put II IN my
wallet and started for Washington. and
when got to New York | met Cleveland
and Carlisle both on their way TO see
me. and TO consult me as to what was
best for the boilers | spoke plainly to
them. They both appeared TO be lit
tie shy; they knew that if they had Ia
ken my advice in February, 1898, they
could have saved twelve million dollars
on the first bond sale. | said nothing
about that and they thought had for
gotten it. But. says |, "Cleve, you and
Carl have played thunder with the old
Democratic party. You couldn't de-
liver it TO the gold-bugs at Chicago as
YOU had promised and now you have no
choice but to hold Boltocratic convcn-
ton at indianapolis, and to join your
forces to those of the COerCOcratS which
| have organized at convention held
i'm ST. Louis" Clcve cVinCed good deal
of iackasSativeness. He was just like
Jim MCCrackcnS old StilI-necked mule,
whenever YOU wanted him TO go forward
he never went; he didn't want TO talk
politics at all. and he asked me If
thought ducks would be- plenty down on
the Putumas flats this fall Carl APP
peared to be more penitent; he said he
thought OF going back to Kentucky to
help William Copernicus Pollard Brock
enridgc to coerce Joe Blackburn. well,
said |. Carl, you and Breck may coerce
a few innocent school girls, and all the
poorlaborers whose families depend upon
their daily labor for support, but don't
think that Joe is Coercible.
Goodbye, Tim, | would write more,
but | am too busy now writing Nc. S in
augural.
NOurS 10 count on,