People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1896 — FALSEHOOD AND MENDACITY. [ARTICLE]

FALSEHOOD AND MENDACITY.

Weapons Used byjtlie Republicans Toward the Close of the Campaign. President E. Benjamin Andrews of Brown university, the distinguished bimetallist and most famous educator of New England, declares that never since the slavery fight of forty years ago, has the press of the country been so completely given over to malicious misrepresentations and the mendacity of greed as It is today in its fight against bimetallism. As the campaign proceeds, it becomes more and more venomous and unscrupulous, and it la perfectly evident that the Republicans and their allies will hesitate at nothing, however desperate, that offers them a hope of success. The Democratic national committee is advised from several different sources that the Republicans have sprung the charge in certain communities that Mr. Bryan is a member of the A. P. A., and that he once edited an A. P. A. paper. In other communities it is alleged that Mr. Bryan boarded in Washington with a Catholic family and attended mass oftener than he did his own church. To such contemptible methods has the Republican campaign to maintain the gold standard come. Against all such as these the public is warned. The daily peddlers of malice and mendacity will do their worst between this time and the day of election. During the next two weeks the Republican press will revel in falsehoods and misrepresentations. Let no friend of Bryan and free silver be misled, discouraged or influenced in the slightest degree thereby.

The bolting Democrats who have nominated Palmer and Buckner are the same men who accomplished the complete destruction of silver as money in 1873. Since then wages have gone down one-half, and 3,000,000 able bodied men have been thrown out of employment.

The farmers must stand together and protect .themselves against the drones of society, who produce nothing but laws.”—Prince Bismarck in 1895.