People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 September 1896 — SORROW AND DISGUST [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SORROW AND DISGUST

AT THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN HEADQUARTERS. . ♦ ■ The Famons London Financial News Article Is Authentic and the Champion Republican Campaign Lie Is Nailed to the Wall. Democratic and Silver National Headquarters, Chicago, Sept. 24, 1896. — The champion Republican campaign lie has been nailed to the wall, and there is sorrow and disgust at the Republican headquarters. The famous’ London Financial News article is authentic. All of the lies that can be invented and circulated by the Republican hired men will be of no avail.* To thte sin of lying the Republican managers have added that of forgery, but the people are not to be deceived. The -blundering Republican managers are deeply sorry that they ever attempted to assail the authenticity of The Financial News article, an exact reproduction of which appears on this page. By their stupidity they have attracted general attention to a most damaging document for the Hanna cause. _ ...s piece of idiotic management is on a par with the Mexican dollar fiasco, and t.-.e slave-driving act now being performed by railroad companies as-d the confederated trusts and syndicates. Here is a brief history of tjie now famous London Financial News article. This publication is the leading financial authority in the money center of the world, in 1894, at a time whan Wiuiam McKinley,. Senator Don Cameron, John Thurston, and all uie leading Republicans in the country were working for the free coinage of Silver, the Lon-, don bankers, the . hschilds, and the great English papers representing them became alarmed at the prospects that the United States would declare its financial independence of England. They promptly went to work, at considerable expense, purchased the Republican party. These same agents attempted tq deliver the Democratic party to the Rothschilds, but it is amatter of history that they failed. English papers discuss Americap poltelcs with a brutal frankness. If any proposed American policy threatens English commercial and financial supremacy the London papers frankly say so. Being in close touch with the bankers. The Financial News was in a position to voice their fears, and it did so in the article, which now threatens to wipe the Republican political syndicate off the face of the earth.

The qditorf question was printed in the Condon Financial News April, 30, 1,894. It was freely commented on by Republican and Democratic papers, which are now frantically declaring that no such article ever appeared. Similar editorials appeared in other English papers. They warned the bankers of England against the danger of the free coinage of silver by the United States, and their warnings were not In vain. Mr. Hanna Is now spending the good, sound, honest money of these same London bankers In an attempt to* perpetuate their financial supremacy over the United States. Among those who received a copy of The Financial News article was John M. Devine, then secretary of the American Bimetallic league. It was forwarded to him by the “Durrant Press Cuttings’’ bureau, the leading ‘ London firm engaged In that business, and was pasted on one of their slips, a sac simile of which is printed li# another column. Senator Teller received 9. copy of the paper containing the article, and so did Congressman Coffeen of Montana, and many others who keep posted on the editorial utterances of the leading London papers. When the St. Louis Republican convention repudiated all past records and openly declared for a single gold standard, the London financial article was reprinted in several American papers. At first the Republican managers paid little attention to it. They believed they had money enough to buy McKinley’s election, and expected that Whitney and Belmont and Cleveland would muzzle the free silver people at the Chicago convention. They were mistaken. Something had to be done. They realized that unless the.article was discredited, McKinley would surely l.e defeated. They proceeded to pronounce the article a fraud and a fake. In order to give this tnore effect the Republican' national committee officially declared that no such article was ever printed and followed this up by the preparation and circulation t>f clumsy forgeries. Here are two of them: London, Aug. 11, 189«. A. C. Platt, Esq., Lincoln, U. S. A. Dear Sir: We beg to return your cutting which you forwarded us and to say that no such article ever appeared in The Financial News. Faithfully yours, THE EDITOR. “Faithfully yours, the editor.” When a man sends a cablegram he always signs it “Faithfully yours,” or “I have the honor to remain, my dear sir, with highest esteem, your most obedient/ servant,” or something "like that. Here Is the next attempt of the literary bureau of the Republican national committee: The Financial News? London, Aug. 13: “We have received numerous letters from American, correspondents containing what purports to be. editorials from The. Financial News, ahd which have been reprinted In various western papers as 'campaign literature.’ One Omaha paper prints an article stating It is ’from The London financial News of March 10.’ No such article was ever printed by us and Its whole tenor is directly opposed to the view we Have taken of the effect of free silver In the United States. So far from advocating free silver coinage we have persistently pointed out that it spells repudiation and the withdrawal of all European capital.” Now read what the London banker* think about the free coinage of silver. 1 x