Show GEXERlAI K A WALKER PROTESTS In many respects the present campaign cam-paign has been exceedingly abusive We refer to the abuse which the gold papers have heaped upon the friends of silver No name has been too vile no epithet too low no abuse too bad for the enemies of silver to use in their de nuiciation of the silver men This vil llfication and abuse has brought forth a protest from General Francis A Walker himself a bimetallist though < not an advocate of independent free coinage He writes from Boston under date of September 19 to the New York Evening Post as follows Sir The fairness of the article commenting com-menting upon my recent letter to the Evening Post contained in your issue of the 17th of September may be gauged gaug-ed by your single assertion regarding the forces which have resulted in setting set-ting the Bryanite movement agoing You say General Walker would it I would seem fain believe that it is ili due to the bad manners of the mono metallists In my letter referred to I said Many causes have contributed to the present illomened gathering of the discontented in all parts of the country and as one of these cited the arrogance of the gold monometalllst press the insolence with which bimetallists bimet-allists haVe been treated and the abusive abus-ive epithets among them idiots and lunatics showered uponmillions of respectable re-spectable honest intelligent and patriotic pat-riotic American citizens You now attribute at-tribute to me the opinion that this last is the sole cause of the effect This particular instance though of small consequence in itself fairly represents rep-resents the manner in which the gold monometallist propaganda has been carried on by the Evening Post Since I wrote my letter of the 11th inst protesting pro-testing against the abuts of bimetallists bimetal-lists you have published an editorial article in which the following precious sentences occur There is no doubt that the complete mental soundness of bimetallists has long been suspected and discourteously questioned by some of their opponents We know of one who says that every bimetallist he has ever known had a far vague look in his eyes Mr Editor is not this a pretty way of carrying on a debate Of course this is a pretty way of carrying on a debate in fact we might say that it is carrying on debate according ac-cording to the golden rule of the gold men It is a very proper way for the i antisilver men to carry on debate HayIng Hay-ing no arguments to advance and not having the graciousness to acknowledge the fact they advance all they havea flood of billingsgate I |