Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1896 — Who Sewalls. [ARTICLE]

Who Sewalls.

Chicago ('hnmiclCath?* only Democratic newspaper in Chicago. The siiverite, populist, antimonopoly candidate for vice president is more kinds of a monopolist than even II >barfr, the Republican candidate for the same office. Mr. Bewail is: . The richest man in Maine. His wealth is estimated at $5,000,000 or $6,000,000. He is presidentof—fche- American shipping league, an ironclad and copper-fastened trust' of ship builders and owners," screwed tip tighter than any other tariff protected trust in the country. He is president and owner of the national bank of Bath, Maine. He is a large owner of stock in national banks at Portland and Boston.. * He is and is now one of the directors of the Maine Central Railway company, described as the most grasping and powerful railway corporation in in New England. “ He is ri. stock holder and director in nearly every corporate monopoly in the state.of Maine and in man yArthur Now Eng land cor potations. He is a lumber baron and raw log king. i, - Ho is proprietor of the biggest shipyard in New England, at,niff protected monopoly. He is a typical capitalist, monopolist, lobbyist and plutocrat.

The late Isaac P. G ray was a free silver man before he went as embassador to Mexico, but a few mont h s obso r vat ibn <> C th<> sq naior and wretchedness of the common people of that country made a sound money man out of him, and when he visited Indianapolis, a few months before hi* death, he explained the reason for his change of views. After telling how h e got 204 big Mexican silver dollars for a draft on New York for SIOO. he said: “It was a fine thing to have my money double itself, but when I got a little better accustomed to the country and realized theCjniseiy of the common people and the hardships they endured, I made up my mind that I never wanted to see this country come to that level. From nowon I shall be in favor of a gold standard—a standard that will keep one dollar of our money worth as much as another. I.had heard of the deplorable conditions that exists in Mexico and other free-silver countries, but I never reaiiz'd just what it meant until I cauie in personal contact with it.“'"~" ...y

Is there an ordiuarily intelligent farmer in Indiana who dies not knoy personally or by reputation, John B. Conner, editor for these many years, of tjiat sterling publication, the Indiana Farmer, of Indianapolis? And there is no man that knows him, who aloes not know him to be a man of the highest rectitude, of the soundest judgement, and above all, of unimpeachable veracity. Therefore, when Mr. Conner sets out to make an exhaustive discussion of anjf great public question, the statements he gives for facts can be taken as absolutely true in every particular. And whether the coneluteions which he forms from these facts he accepted or npt, the facts at least can be relied upon. We make room this wehk for an exhaustive article frotn Mr. Conner’s pen on the money question. Read it carefully and pieserve it for future reference.