Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1896 — Page 1

VOLUIIF XX

SENSATION OF THE CAMPAIGN

Brltkh Acknowledgement That Bryan's Election and Free Coinage of Silver Will Start American Mills and Reatore Good Prices to the American Farmer and Planter. English gold for m'kinley. The Genulnenecs ofthe Francis-James Letter Is Proved Beyond All Doubt and the Gold ites Are Left to Silent Mourning er Infantile Mocking. MwtiMT column of this israe will » found fuo dmile copies of ths first, ttdrd sad fourth pages of the Francis tetter, the publication of which has pro-

tuoggw SUC 81-MILB 07 THE ENVELOPE IN Iwoemadi tbajtci*-james letter came. finced such a profound sensation. This Jtettw was Received by Mr. John James fit Howard county, who consented to Mtew its publication in his home paper,

BBCLE or BEVEB6E OF ENVELOPE IN I WBMETHE FRANCIS-JAMES LETTER CAME. (the Kokomo Dispatch. Following is The Dispatch’s article: From HU Home Paper. The Dispatch prints below a highly significant letter from a naturalised American citizen now visiting in England, his former home, showing that funds to aid in the election of McKinley are now being collected from workingmen in the English mills upon the representation to the workingmen by their employers that the success of Bryan and the free silver cause in America will cause an increase in the price of flour and the raw materials exported from the United States for use in English factories, would result in the opening of the American mills now closed, bringing American products into competition with the English manufactures in the foreign markets, and possibly resulting In the closing of English mills. Recognising the importance of such a letter in the campaign, and being assured in advance that its genuineness would be fluestioned by the gold standard party, The Dispatch has been at much pains to clearly and convincingly establish its genuineness and its thorough reliability. The writer is George W. Francis of Pierre, 8. D., a farmer, a Republican in politics, and a thoroughly reputable gentleman. It is addressed to John James of New London, this county, a gentleman who is well known in this vicinity, particularly in northern Howard and Southern Case counties. The letter in full is as follows: The FranoU-James latter. “Southfort, Eng., Oct. 1, 1896. “Mr. Jamas, “My Dear Friend John—You will be surprised to get a letter from me and to know that I am back in old England on a visit. I landed on Aug. 11th at Liverpool. We had a pleasant voyage. How are you getting along in old Indiana? I have been trying to get your address for a long time, but have succeeded at last by finding your sister in Southport. I have been down in Herefordshire most of the time, but have been in London and Manchester. There don’t Seem to be much change in the looks of the country, but quite a change in the people. I am getting homesick to get back to Pierre. I attended a large farmers’ and laborers’ meeting at Preston a week ago. It was called for the purpose of petitioning to parliament for bill in favor of bimetallism, aS AGRICULTURE IS IN A DEPLORABLE CONDITION HEBE AS WELL AS IN AMERICA. Brother Harry has been working for Martin & Co., cotton manufacurers, Manchester, for two years. He has left and is going back to America. He told me something that surprised me —thut the general surperintendent had BOLHHTED A SUBSCRIPTION OF ALL THE MEN US SEND TO AMERICA MONEY TO AID IN THE ELECTION OF McKINLEY, AND TO FIGHT THE FREE COINAGE OF SILVER. He toldthem that if free coinage webe established in America they would have to pay double price fob their floub; the price of raw cotton wnm.n RISE' and that the mills of -America would start to run again and qqme in competition with Engforeign markets and perhaps throw them out of work. They raised A 67. Brother Harry gave nothing, as be is.oommg with me. I came to EngLand'<a Republican, but I wnA comb BACK A FOBS COINAGE MAN. I did not intend to go back until spring.-but will igo back at onee gnd do what I can fob Yme fhhe coinage of silver. I have Heard a deal about polities in America and have heard things that made my very hair stand on end with nge in London and Liverpool. Now, [WHfc gpopfetog OV Own interests.

The Democratic Sentinel.

WE MUM TOCS AMD WORK FOB BaffAM, REOARDUSSS OF WHAT P ABTY WS ha VS represented heretofore. It is of vim importance. We will stop over at your uncle’s at Portage, Wis., two weeks, and then go on to South Dakota. Please write soon. In conclusion will say, do all you can for Bryan. If this letter will do any good, use it. “Address me at 807 box, Pierre, South Dakota. George W. Francis. “Best wishes to all.” Who Are Francis and James? John James, to whom the letter is addressed, owns a small fruit farm one and one-half miles northwest of New London, in this county, which he purchased from the Harris heirs in 1892. Both he and the writer of the letter, Mr. Francis, were natives of Herefordshire, Eng., .They came to America together in 1880, Mr. James paying a portion of Mr. Francis’ passage money, and lauded at Toronto. They came at once to Indiana, where Francis remained but a short time, going west and settling near Pierre, S. D. James at first worked for James Hiller, a short distance west of Galveston, and was subsequently employed by the late “Jack” Harness, who then lived on the Howard-Cass county line. With the exception of a short time spent in the west he has lived in Howard and Cass counties since he first came here 14 years ago. By all his former neighbors, and his present neighbors as wen, he is spoken of as an entirely truthful and thoroughly reliable man. He formerly voted with the Republican party, but in 1892 supported Weaver for president. He has at no time been active in politics, but expresses a willingness to go among his friends and neighbors with the letter and let them see that their interests are being fought with British gold wrung from the earnings of the English workingmen. He had not heard from Francis in many years until now. His last letter before this one contained a remittance covering the money advanced by James for the passage from England and other money loaned, to secure which James was compelled to pawn his watch in Toronto. One moment’s conversation with Mr. James will convince any unprejudiced person of his truthfulness and honesty. The letter with its envelope bearing the English postage stamps and Southport postmark, is now in the possession of Allen W. Clark, of the Democratic state committee at Indianapolis, who is having it photographed and a photographic reproduction made for the press. Confirmatory -ot the Statements of ExConsul Folsom and the London Financial News. The Francis letter is the strongest possible evidence confirming the recent statements of Benjamin Folsom, former consul to Sheffield, on his return to the United States. The source of the information may be humbler, but it. is even more direct and certainly not less reliable. Mr. Folsom said: “On every side I heard in the provinces and in London, wherever I was, in hotels or clubs, that England would never consent to any such doctrine as bimetallism. The English monied men make no attempt at concealing their desire for McKinley’s election because it is for their own interest. * * * * England is against Bryan, against bimetallism, and everything else which would tend to advance our interests. They have gold beady TO KILL SILVER IN THIS COUNTRY IF NECESSARY.” It is in confirmation of the conviction expressed by the London Financial News the leading English financial journal, in its editoral columns on April 80, 1894, when it declared the result of independent free coinage in the United States would ruin British trade and give us the markets of the world. “Every American industry would be protected,” said the Financial News, “not ONLY AT HOME BUT IN EVERY OTHER It has been charged by the Republican press that this article from the Financial News is a forgery, but irrefutable evidence of its genuineness has been produced and published, not only in the photographic reproduction of the article furnished by the Durant Press Guttings bureau of London, but in the photographic reproduction from the columns of the Chicago Tribune, an ardent supporter of McKinley, of a cablegram from Ballard Smith, London representative of the New York World, also a gold organ and McKinley supporter. Of these a convicting case is made up. Let the people of this country make answer— Shall British money or American MEN BULE IN THE UNITED STATES?

PLEASE, MR. HANNA,

Answer These Few and Really Proper and Pertinent Questions Which the People Are Asking. BBBBSBETA; As Mr. McKinley’s duly accredited manager and spokesman, the attention of Labor Crusher Hanna is called to these queries put to him by organized labor in particular and people in general: Are you rich? Did you make any of your money reducing workingmen’s wages? If the free coinage of silver would, as you say, tend to reduce the wages of workingmen, why are YOU opposed to it? Who gives you all the money you are spending now? What do you promise in return for it? * How do you make Mr. McKinley do what yon tell him? Will he keep on doing it when he is president? How did you get hold of him first? Do you consider that those notes are a good investment? Workingmen stand together in their unions elbow to elbow, and shoulder to shoulder, to repel their enemies every day in the year except upon election day, when they sometimes permit partisan prejudices to open their line of battle and the enemy passes triumphantly through. Syndicates and corporations stand together every day, election day included, and upon that day more solidly than any other, no matter what their personal prejudices or party affiliations. Why will net workingmen emulate their example?

BBNBSELAEB JASPER COUNTf, INDIANA KRIDAY OCTOBER 23 1896

MANUFACTURERS NEED SILVER

Hon, Charles R. Sligh, President of World’s Largest Furniture Factorv and Always a Republican Till the St. Louis Platform Was Adopted. FARMERS AND WAGE EARNERS The president of the largest furniture factory in the world declares for Bryan and the remonetization of silver in the following letter: "Sligh Furniture Co., "Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 4.1898. “Colonel R. M. Johnson, Elkhart, Ind. Dear Sir —It affords me pleasure to comply with your request to submit a few reasons, from a manufacturer’s standpoint, why the independent, free and unlimited coinage of silver by the United-States would be beneficial to our country. “It is a well established principle in finance that the quality or value of money is regulated by the quantity, and that the quantity of all the money in the world regulates the value of all commodities and products that are bought and sold. If the volume of money is large prices will be high, and if money is scarce or horded (and if it is scarce it will be horded) prices will be low. This principle has been repeatedly demonstrated in all times of the world’s history, and the men who secured the demonetization of silver were perfectly familiar with it. They were the moneylenders of the world who desired that their money should become more valuable, and they accomplished their ends through corrupt and dishonorable means. The results of demonetization have justified their judgment, and, while it has brought misery to millions, it has doubled the value of their dollars, and in its culmination in the last two years has brought the producing classes and the manufacturers to the verge of bankruptcy, and if continued for two years longer, three-quarters of the manufacturing establishments now operating will be wiped out of existence, and their plants will pass into the hands of the money-lenders, who will acquire them at from one-quarter to one-third their value. The election of McKinley, which promises nothing but higher taxes and a monopoly of the spoils, cannot avert this disaster, as the United States senate is anti-gold standard and sure to remain so for at least the next four years. The Only Hope. “The only hope of the producing classes is in legislation that will cheapen money, thereby compelling it to seek investment in productive enterprises, employing idle labor and making a market of farmers’ products. The only way to cheapen money is to make more of it. With our mints open to the world’s silver, as they were previous to 1878, and as they are now to gold, the demand for gold must be lessened, and its value thereby decreased, and the demand for silver must be Increased, and its value thereby appreciated, ultimately bringing the two to a parity. How the Farmers Are Situated. “All manufacturers who understand I this question are convinced that naiasting prosperity can be attained until the agricultural classes (one-half of our population) receive prices that will give them a profit on their products, and that they can secure better prices under a gold standard is absurd to contemplate. Our farmers today are selling their surplus products to Europein competition with Russia, India, Argentine and other countries in whlph gold is at a high premium. It is this premium on gold which acts as a bonus on exportation and has stimulated production in all silver standard countries, the farmers there are getting as much for their wheat, cotton and other products now as they did 20 years ago, while our farmers .are getting only half as much. “This is accounted for by the fact that previous to 1878, when England bought our silver to pay for purchases in India,Russia, etc.,she had to pay $1.38 an ounce for it, while now she is buying it for 69 cents an ounce, and she can secure the same quantity of products from those countries now for an ounce of silver that she could then. Under free coinage by the United States, silver would be worth <1.29 cents an ounce, and no one would sell it for less, because he could take it to the mint and realize that; therefore, England would be compelled to pay nearly double what she pays now for our silver, and this would mean nearly double cost to her for the wheat and cotton she buys of India, Russia and Argentine, and a corresponding increase, in the price in the United States. This would enable our farmers to again become consumers of manufactured goods, which they have largely ceased buying during the last three years, and would afford a home market, not only for our protected industries, but the |yast number of manufactures which are not directly benefitted by a high protective tariff, chief amon g which are furniture; agricultural implements, bicycles, iron, leather, carriages, oils, tablets, etc.

Manufacturers Threatened. “The manufacturers of the United States are also threatened with a competition from the Asiatic countries, that under a gold standard will be blighting in its effects. “The premium Of 100 percent on gold in Asia has stimulated manufacturers there, as it has also in Mexico, and with labor at only 20 cents a day, it gives them an advantage that cannot be overcome in this country under a gold standard. “An Asiatic manufacturer can ship his goods to this country and receive his price to gold, WWbh gives him 100 per cent bosno borides his regular proft.

“A ratM ADHBBBirCB TO CORRECT PRJHaiPLJBS.”

That they are not slow to appreciate this is evidenced by the fact that Japan exported to the United Stotea in 1890 <8,919,719 worth of good*, while for 1896 she exported to us <27,654,764, as reported by William E. Ourtis and Con-sul-General Mdvor. Free coinage in the United States would bring the Japanese up to our standard and obliterate the 100 per cent difference in exchange. Free Coinage. “Free coinage in the United States would not only increase the price of our farm products, but would largely Increase our trade in manufactured goods with all Latin-America, as it would enable them to pay in silver for purchases instead of gold at 100 per cent premium as they are now compelled to, and would eventually lead to the consummation of Blaine’s idea—a Pan-Ameri-can dollar, which would be a legal tender in every country on this western continent. “I urge manufacturers everywhere to study this question and lend their influences to the election of the only candidates who can bring relief—Bryan and Sewall. Charles R. Sligh. “President Sligh Furniture Company, Grand Rapids, Mich." Always aa Active Republican. Mr. Sligh has always been an active Republican until the St. Louis convention adopted the gold standard policy and ‘‘went back on its whole history," when he, with hundreds of thousands of other patriotic Republicans, refused to follow after strange gods and became parties to the crime of attempting to fasten on the United States the financial policy of England and the bondholding aristocracy of Lombard street in London and their Amorican-Tory-Wall-street-annex of this country, and openly declared themselves for such a policy as would sustain and protect the interests of American common people and prevent the doubling of our public and private debts to Europe and the London holders of our public and private securities. There can be no particle of doubt but that the interest of all American manufacturers lies in the direction of the remonetization of silver; and that the raising of the tariff, as proposed by McKinley and Hanna, will drive them still further to the wall than they now are, and thus subserve the very end which the British lords of finance aimed to secure by their procuring our congress, without the knowledge of our people, to demonetize silver in 1878. The gold standard policy will destroy our manufacturing interests as well as our ag cultural interests, as Mr. Sligh so clearly shows, and these destroyed, British manufacturers will have a clear monopoly of the markets of the world and will soon render the United States dependent upon them for all the goods and merchandise consumed by our people. Every manufacturer of the United States ought to read this article, ponder it well and follow its concluding advice and vote for Bryan and Sewall.

“THE FRIEND OF SILVER.”

How Bynum Posed Before a Colorado Audience Five Years Ago. The Denver News of Oct. 15, 1891, printed the following cartoon and report of Mr. Bynum’s speech in that city on the day before:

CONGRESSMAN BY NUM. “I have always voted for free silver and always will

The Friend of Silver. Mr. Bynum said: “I have always beta in favor of free coinage of silver [applause] and I don’t desire to advertise my own record, but in this connection I think it not improper to say what action I have taken in respect to this question. I was on the committee on coinage in the Forty-ninth congress and was one of the three members of that committee who reported the bill in favor of free coinage, away back at the beginning of Mr. Cleveland’s administration. [Loud and prolonged cheering.] “I have voted for free coinage from the time the question has been before congress, and will do so every time the question comes up. [Renewed cheers.] lam willing to restore a silver basis. I am willing to restore, as McKinley calls it, the 87-cent dollar, a dollar going down to that figure. But I want to say this, if we are unable to maintain free coinage or the parity between the two metals by free coinage of silver it is because of this prohibitory tariff (the McKinley bill, now repealed) and nothing •Ise.” Are you a member of organized labor? Are you not bound by every pledge that is sacred, to exert every effort to protect yourself and your brother from harm that may come to him from within and frqm without yeur order? Are you true to yourself or true to him, oij your loved sees at home when by your vote you piaoe the iasolent, arrogant labor-hatiag Mark Hanna (who will then eontrol McKinley as he controls every n— ll ■ I II >■ rwi, .

I. Democratic Ticket. For Presidential Electon-at- j [ ""“1 Large. . i | ptM | JOHN B. STOLL. |7xa| parda d. drain. ‘J v District Electors. | DIM JAM r W“ffioN. Jmm ELlsYia'a’rlGgVnS. I dsn GEORGE b’molnVyßE. , | nix TOWN T^ND T "opfe. WILLIAMSON. |dsm GEORG™ W.’PIGj'IAN. I'bxm MAURI?™ DONNELLY. Eiigbth district, BARTLETT H. CAMPBELL. f g g ja^v. ,b p t & b . g g BFor Governor, BENJAMIN F. SHIVELY. f“""| For Lieutenant-Governor. |dkm| JOHN 0. LAWLER. 1 ff' ■■* ■'! T° r Secretary of State, |dkm| SAMUEL M. RALSTON. BFor Auditor of State, JOSEPH T. FANNING. BFor Treasurer of State, MORGAN CHANDLER. BFor Attorney-General, JOHN G. McNUTT. SFor Reporter Supremo Court, HENRY WARRUM. For Superintendent Public InBstruouon, WILLIAM B. SINCLAIR. SFor State Statistician, OMAR H. DOWNEY. For Judge Appellate Court, OHIIBT DISTRICT, EDWIN TAYLOR. □BIOOVD DISTRICT, I FRANK E. GAVIN. 0 THIRD DISTRICT, THEODORE P. DAVIS. SrOVBTH DISTRICT, ORLANDO J. LOTZ. r orirTS DIITKCT. GEORGE E.R083. INSTRUCTIONS TO VOTERS. If you want to vote a STRAIGHT DEMOCKATIC TICKET, damp within the big ■quare containing the ROOSTER ut tl.o top of the ticket, and stamp nowhere else.

"Jkememberl 1. You must get your* ballots of the polling clerks in the election room. 2. If you want to vote a straight ticket, stamp within the large square at the head of the ticket containing the device of the party for whose candidates you wish to vote. If you do not wish to vote a straight ticket you must not stamp the large square containing the device of your party, but you must stamp the small square to the left of the name of each candidate for whom you desire to vote, on whatever list of candidates it may be. If the large square at t he head of the ticket is stamped, and the ballot is stamped at any other place, it is void and cannot be counted, unless there be no candidate for some office in the list printed under such stamped device, in which case he may indicate his choice for such office by stamping the square to the left of the name of any candidate for such office on any other list. The stamp must be placed within or on the square or the ballot is void and cannot be counted. I 8. Do not mutilate your ballot, or I mark it either by scratching a name off or writing one on, or in any way, except by the stamping on the square or squares, as before mentioned. Otherwise the ballot will not be counted. 4. After stamping your ballots, and before leaving the booth, fold them separately, so that the face of them cannot be seen and so that the initial letters of the names of the polling clerks on the backs thereof can be seen, Then hand your ballots to the inspector, th v stamp to the polling clerk, and leave the room. 5. If you are physically unable to stamp your ballots, or can nob read English, so inform the polling clerksand tell them how you wwh to veto and they will stamp your ballots for you. But the voter and clerks should not permit any other person Ito hear or see how the ballots are stamped, and it is a penal offense to declare that you can , not read English or cannot mark your r ballot, if, in fact, you can. 6. if you should accidentally or by feistake deface, mutilate or spoil your ballot, return it to the poll clerks and get a new ballot. 7. You must not accept a ballot from any person outside of the election room. Any ballpt outside is fraudulent, and it is a penitentiary offense to have such a ballot in your possession ’ whether you attempt to vote it or not. 8. You must not attempt to hold any conversation in the election room except with members of the election board and the poll clerks. , 9. You must not put any mark of any kind on your ballot except with the

THEPROOF That British Manufacturers Are Requesting Their Employes to Contribute Money to the McKinley Campaign Fund. Because the Election of Bryan Will Open American Milla and Raise the Price of American Farm Products, Injuring the British Importers and Money Lenders. [Several days ago a letter from George W. Francis, of Pierre, 8. D., who is now visiting his old home in England, was received by his old friend John James,. a fruit farmer of New London, near Kokomo, Ind., who permitted its publication in the Kokomo Dispatch. This letter was such a remarkable revelation of the attitude of the English capitalists and manufacturers in the present effort of Hanna and McKinlev to perpetuate upon the people of the United States the British gold standard that its authenticity was immediately questioned by the gpld standard press. Three pages of the letter are therefore produced in sac simile below, the second page being omitted in order to get the matter within two columns. The complete letter is published elsewhere in this issue.— Ed.] C Arm 47 47&4t~~tortVL tubaMi l 0/V.tv /'KCAA. A fauidL £%&&& 3 <cf fa far Ira, jarua. A^ u ~ sortdlL of J&'iaVu.vhJT foovfeC d4a*/~ 47 u 4 > * Ch 4 AaaMcl 47 GW'W, gs 47 ac a4T g/ 'fcaaJut /u dpt <r4 4oC' z7~ iteC' - t<rts(/c4 O/btef c4udlq de CL-& /i 'twZtLr* O/O'trtL sCCdJZ/W <&~ I#7 £f ' 7 ‘ ' ■Ce-crl&j r/~''

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