The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-01-17
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THE INTELLLGENCER.
WHEELING. JANUARY H. 1895. !


sB II Is amusing TO read some OF the COM.
ment III the Bryan press on the aban-
4 doament OF It's advocacy OF free silver
and Organism by the New York Journal,
the only Democratic paper OF any note
4 In New York that has been supporting
that combination. During the campaign
OF 1896 this Journal, which Is the yellow
4 est Of all the representatives. OF the class
OF sensational sheets that constitute
s what Is known as the thew journalism"
gave It's ardent support TO the Chicago
4 platform and the Chicago nominee OF the
new" Democracy. AZ that time, and
UP until within the past few days, the
Journal was regarded by every Bryan
tie organ In the country as an able and
patriotic exponent Of Organism. and
A freely quoted from rs columns,
Throughout the campaign the sound
4 money press was continually calling at
tention to the fact that the paper. which
the free silverites regarded as their spec
fal champion In the metropolis. and
4 were busily engaged in circulating
throughout the country. was owned and
controlled by the multi-milllonaire silver
! mine owner, W.R. Hearst, and that the
selfish interest he had In espouslng the
Z free silver cause was well understood by
all who knew him. 1t was proved BY
afiidavits that this silver king, and the
Z mining interests with which he was con-
nected, had contributed heavily to the
Bryan campaign fund. All these charges
were Indignantly resented by the blind
) par.ieans OF the silver cause, among
4 siem the organ OF this city.
Z Now that the Journal has announced
: itself upon the other side OF the question:,
( its former satellites that drew upon It's
editorial columns, and praised Its MIL
4 lionaire proprietor for the "unselnsh"
efforts he was making for cheap money,
have begun TO denounce both the news
4 paper and its proprietor: They have
\ suddenly discovered, and are imparting
3 the Information to their readers, what
they ignored during the campaign, and
Z even denied, namely, that the former is
4 a'.yellow sheet OF the rankest sort" and
that the latter. Is actually millionaire,
Z which in the mind of Popocratic editor
who doesn't happen to be himself man
/ ot5&ealth Is a mortal crime.
ssa Our esteemed neighbor In Wheeling,
whose columns were wont 10 be- filed
4 with able arguments from the paper
owned by this now awful enemy of the
Il people, Mr. Hearst, is particularly bitter
3!n1its denunciations. and now admits
that the conversion OF the journal to
sound money Is really "gaod riddance OF
/ bad rubbish" III Is strange how We can
suddenly discover what "bad rubbish n
Il newspaper organ Is rs soon as It makes
! up it's mind TO change Ills policy, isn't It?
And how cheerful It must cause the Reg
listers readers TO feel to note that their
4 fayorite organ, after solemnly declaring
1 that "all the yellow journals are now on
X the side OF the gold standard" proceeds
5 to quote a denunc!ation OF yellow gold
! Journalism from the Chicago Dispatch,
{ a newspaper that represents al! that Is
vicious in yellow journalism" and
\ whose publisher Is now serving term In
the Illinois penl.ent!ary for publishing
g matter In his paper that waE too I'M
moral to DE admitted to Uncle Sans
\ mall! Then, too, there Is the additional
charge, which Is doubtless true. that
Tammany's influence caused !he Journal
to change lis policy. when lees than three
months since this same ncIshbor Of ours
A was printing ROSTERS owe. the announce
4. ment ofrthe Tammany victory in New
York City! Verify our free silver local
contemporary Is finding Itself in a des-
Il perate situation.
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