The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-26
MORTON IONBRYAN'..
Mr. cleveland's Secretary Of Agri-
culture Talks Freely.
NOMINEES INCONSISTENCIES.
In Deaouncing Trusts and the Money
Power-Good Story Told by candi-
date Stevenson Of n Campaign
Tour in West Virginia With Ex-
Governor Maccorkle. I

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There are few men on earth so happy
and contented MS ]. Sterling Morton,
who was secretary OF agriculture dur
ling the last term Of President Cleve-
land. After an active and often event
ful career he has, scttled' down TO the
tdplet luxury Of a country life upon q
farm which he entered rs n homestead
IN 1855; He came west with his bride
from Detroit that year and built a log
cabin upon the rolling prairie overlook;
ing the Missouri river, near where Ne
z braska City now stands. He was one
gof the original TOWNSHIP owners, and as
sisted to lay out that place before the
territory was surveyed by the govern
sment. II e was with General Denver
when the latter made the treaty with
. the Otoe Indians by which the eastern
part Of Nebraska south of the Platte
river was transferred to the United
States. The development of the state
has 5beenn part of his life, and his ca
reer has been a struggle with frequent
.trluniphs to advance all that was good
! and suppress all that was bad from
this oorner Of civilization. He has com
pleted his career. He sits upon the
porch of beautiful villa and contem-
plates with great satisfaction the re-,
suits OF his enterprise and industry. He
knows what 1t is to be useful to COM
munity, and watches the careers Of
his sons and the growth OF his grand
children with qualification that few
men have been spared to enjoy. writes
a1Nebraska City correspondent of the
Chicago Record.
Mr.. Morton began his political SER
vice. fighting the wildcat banks that
were established in this territory to rob
the settlers, and naturally ends 1t as
! one Of then Incorporating oppo-
3ncnts Of financial fallacies. He knows
!. no words severe enough to condemn the
: present policy Of the Democratic party,
! Of which he has been an active tmember
all his life, and II he speaks for the re-
mainder Of the anti-free silver faction
OF that party the ticket that was nomi-
mated at Kansas City Will receive no
+ support from them.
Platform Inconsistencies.
+"The man who can drink water after
eliminating hydrogen and oxygen
! therefrom, he said to-day, .'can swal-
low the Kansas City platform without
tasting financial! fallaclcs or detecting
the flavor OF Bryanarchy. Bryan is 16
to ]. Silver at l6 to / Is Bryan. A
majority at Kansas City for either was
an Endorsement of both. There can be
! no reunited Democracy under that
sort Of leadership. Mr.. Bryan himself
: proclaimed such reunion absolutely
impossible. He denounced all gold
standard men as conspirators against
the public veal. Those who had for
merly acted with the Democratic party
he mathematical rs traitors. and in q
familiar speech at Richmond. Va. de-
clared that they shall be branded as
traitors, and shall not come back
THE Kansas City sanhedrin while In
. hysterical paroxysms proclaimed its nd
herence to the Chicago platform Of
y 1896" continued Mr.. Morton, land re-
affirmed 1t in part and In whole--ln de-
I tail down to the last letter. II they
had used lot OF the product OF the
New York ice trust on their heads they
might have escaped the absurdity Of
again saying in their platform that the
: gold standard has resulted In the APP
probation OF gold and corresponding
fall In the price OF commodities pro-
duced by the people: 80 the en-
richment Of the money-lending class at
home and abroad: the prostrat!on OF In
dustry and the !mpovcrishment OF the
people. Here In Nebraska City, place
I OF 10000 population, the banks carry de-
pos!ts OF over a million dollars con-
stautly. Eight miles west. In the W.
laSe OF Dunbar, Is bank OF $4,000 cap
Ital which has $4,000 OF farmers mo-
ney on deposit. Last week money was
loaned on land adjoining some of my
own for three years at simple interest
{ OF per cent on valuation OF more
than sac an acre. and l saw that same
land begging for purchaser'at So so an