Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-29

. formed Congress that if they would
| make the bonds payable in gold he
could save the nation sixteen millions
Of dollars.
He informed his hearers that he had
a conscience, and that he had mentally
resolved that he would do what he
could to prevent another private sale
of bonds, but had to admit that every
Democrat in the Senate was likewise
afflicted with a conscience and voted
! with him on that question.
He repeated the old chestnut about
Bryan having said that wheat and sill
yer stood hand in hand, but failed to
state that the Republican campaign
book of 1890, from which he (Stephen
Elkins) 50 freely quoted, in past years,
printed table claiming the same
thing and denouncing Cleveland for
his opposition to silver.
He said We had s24 per capita of
money in circulation, when any school
boy in the country knows it to be IN
true, for if Elkins's gold standard ideas
prevail then gold is the only money.
Silver and paper are Acly token money,
redeemable in gold only, and our gold
is not quite 50 per capita.
It will be remembered that McKin-
ley said open the mills and not the
| nints; yet sly Stephen said We have
actually coined over $500 900 900 in sill
yer since Mckinley began to admin
lister. Now, if that silver is redeem
able in gold. does it not constitute
debt of $500 100000, less the commercial
price of silver? If silver is not re-
demption money will M. Elkins make
a departure from his manuscript, and
at his next meeting tell when and how
! he expects to get the gold to redeem
| $3.50, 900 900 of silver if coined annual
w. (The fact is that $55. 100000 is
about the largest amount ever coined
in one year. and why Mr.. Elkins said
that the administration had coined
| $500 900 900 was probably due to the
reason that after leaving his manu-
script and talking orally he handled
the truth very recklessly) Is it not
| fact that every silver dollar coined, if
a gold standard prevails. adds to our
national indebtedness? Then how can
Mr.. Elkins be the friend to silver he
pretends to be? A leather or paper
dollar would be equally as good as
silver one, if redeemable in gold, and
no one knows this better than Elkins.
He quoted the familiar statement Of
Lincoln about swapping horses while
crossing q stream. but failed to men
ton that Lincoln told Hamlin, who was
| going west the day prior to his G4in-
coln's) death, to tell the miners for him
that he expected them to mine the sill
yer to pay the national debt. (Yet FL
kins says that the silver issue is dead,
and that he don't like to associate with
a corpse.)
The Senator struck an unexpected
snag by making an outrageous attack
upon J. Hop Woods, Democratic candl-
date for State Senator in this district.
Elkins said that Woods was circulating
through the country that he (Elk1nsl
owned Virginia bonds, and that he nao
written Woods a letter of denial when
he (Woods) did not have the courtesy
to answer. Woods waited until Elklns
|. had finished his speech and then arose
for an explanatory saying that he had
been absent from home for some time
and if Senator Elkins had written him
such a letter he had not received 1t,
or it would have received a courteous
answer. Mr.. Woods then asked Mr..
Flkins if he would deny that banks IN
which he (Elkins) was interested, dld
own considerable amount OF Virginia
certificates. Elkins's confusion at this
interrogatory was perceptibl to all.
Weeds notified him that he had re-
ceived his information from Repub-
lican gresham in West Virginia
who had agreed to furnish the proof in
the event of Elkins's denial. And it is
! a fact that the Congressman referred
to was in Weston on the following day,
who said in the presence of witnesses
that it was true and the evidence would
he forthcoming. Now, as 10 Elkins'
letter To Woods: 1t was forwarded and
received at Weston on Wednesday, Oc-
/ tober 10Th. bearing date October 18th,
| the preceding Saturday. The letter
! could not have left the town Of Elkins
I until Monday. as there is no Sunday
mail. Woods could not have answered
It until Tuesday. had he been at home:
and Elkins could not have received
Woods's answer until Tuesday chad he
| been at hcme), on which day Elkins
was billed and did sneak in Weston,
demonstrating that Elkins is still at
his old tricks Of classifying and deceiv-
| ing to gain a political point. 1t will be
remembered by the ex-soldiers IN his
| district how he lodged in and out of
/ the cloak room in the Capitol Gas Wit
messed from the gallery). when the
representative they had sent would
| send in his card For which conduct
| the G. A r ledge passed resolutions
| denouncing Senator Elkins.
AS slick as sly Stephen is, he will be
| frequently caught I'D in his ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain, for
| the reason that it Is his weakness t.
underestimate the intelligence Of
| others
| In conclusion, we ask Senator Elkins
| to make an appendix To his manuscript
explaining how the tariff has Increased
| the price of export cattle. and how it
could have made his 81 Democratic
! sheep, when converted into a Repub-