Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-29
Plan 70 FLOOD IOWA.
Democratic National Committee to
Scatter "Coin" Harvey's Liter
ature Over the State.
Books and Pamphlets on Money,
Trusts and Imperialism to Be
Written.
Will Be Circulated at Expense of
the People-No Saloon
Agitation.
Special to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, Nov 29.--The democratic
national committee still does not know
1t has enough, and is planning to flood
Iowa with another batch of more or
less sophistry and Misrepresentation by
Coin" the alias of w. H. Harvey, the
author of Coins Financial School," 1t
will be remembered by some-the few
who paid any attention to him and his
doings after the election of 1896 elm
| mated him from politics-that Harvey
| tried lecturing after the noise of the
downfall of the silverites had subsd-
ed. He attempted to induce people to
| pay to have the campaign of 1896 kept
| going the year round Beyond con-
suming few uneXpended campaign
| balances, left over from the contribu-
| tions of the silver barons for the great
| struggle of 1896, Mr.. Harvey produced
no impression His efforts fell very
| fiat indeed. The public. even that part
of it which sympathized with his no
| tions few months before, had had
enough of him. A great six-day poiti-
cal campmeeting was advertised at
RiveIton, fremont county. in 1887.
| This vas almost in Missouri in the
| very heart of populism and democracy
| in Iowa. Great preparations We're
made for the thousands of people that
were to come to hear Coin" and others
lecture about silver and few other
things. A man started a temporary
hotel to accommodate the crowds and
prepared to feed many hundreds The
weather was good, but the crowd came
not and the meeting was finally aban-
doned. The hotel man lost several
| hundred dollars, for there We're no
guests for him. My recollection is that
he had eighteen to dinner one day.
| But now the democratic national
committee is preparing to instruct the
people of Iowa through Coin A
confidential circular has been sent out
from Chicago signed by j. CT. Johnson,
| of Kansas, vice chairman of the demo-
cratic national committee, written on
the letter heads of the democratic na-
tonal committee. saying that we
| haya arranged with Mr.. w. H. Harvey,
the author of Coins Financial School
to write book on Money. Trusts and
| Imperialism, for which we desire to
secure a general circulation as quickly
as possible. 1t will be as good if not
better than Coins Financial School,
and our chances of success in the com
ing presidential election will be great
| ly promoted by its educational work
We desire to place this book on a bust
ness basis that Will make ii pay its
way" etc The letter then goes on to
say that the book will be sold for %
cents, half of which viii be given TO the
agent who sells the book. The patriot
| to whom this letter is addressed is
urged to get the best book solicitor in
| the county to take hold of the enter
prise at once, so the work Will be well
under way by December l. The book
| is to be ready about January 10.
This, then. is the democratic plan of
campaign, outlined thus far ahead.
They will try to fool the people with
Coin" again and make them pay for 1t
into the bargain-if they can. But
| Coin is no longer a blind and what
est it once did. Ii is important, how
ever, to know that the democrats, the
| silverites, If you please, are provided
start an aggressive and active cam
paign almost year in advance of the
next presidential election. 1t is a point
er to republicans that there will be life
in the silver issue next year. put there
/ by the immense moneyed interests that
are behind it. able to advertise all
! over the country-to practically give
| away expensive literature year be-
fore election. This is, of course, only
a clever attempt to get something out
| of Coins" political tract before it is
! scattered broadcast, the same as all
other political documents are during a
campaign. The attempt to get people
to pay for the book is a good deal like
Gen. Weaver's everlasting hat passing.
only with Gen. Weaver it is usually a
| personal necessity, while with the DEM
ocratic national committee it is merely
a part of a plan TO circulate this tract
as much at the expense of the people
| as possible.
| The good student of politics knows
that Coins" pamphlet did wonderful
amount of harm four years ago, when
4 the subject was fresh, people We're
reading everything they could lay
hands on that referred to silver. and
| they did not know Coin" They swal-
| lowed the lies he told because they
We're so clever and so bold Many peo-
| pie believed every word of Coins FL
nancial School" and supposed the in
cidents there described actually took
place. 1t did not seem possible that
any person would. unwarranted, take
| the liberty of using the names OF well
known financiers as he did But after
While the truth became known and
| the little book was known for Just what
! it was, a clever bit of fiction adapted
to the subject of most interest at the
/ time: full of false statements, sephis-
4 tries and altogether misleading. George
I f. Roberts, now director of the mint,
! wrote reply to it. called Coin at
/ School in Finance" that was the best
4 and most effective reply of all that
We're published. Long before the end
of the campaign Coin" had ceased to
be much of figure.
Now the situation is very different
"Coin' is we'll known. His name does
/ nof foil anyone HE arte ora fprnilt,r