Show CORRECTING MISTAKES r Ir i r Jo The J New ew Y York lork rk Evening Sun has an au article by 6 some scribe pretending to give the issues of thea the a McKinley McKinle and Bl Bryan an campaign in 93 It is an old subject and is not worth much t 1 But some dome some oi of Hi the statements ts ni made de ae b by byI I this this' man Juan in the tile Sun are untrue some sonic are only l half the truth For instance he sa says s 's the ratio laHo of sixteen to one OUe was fixed arbitrarily by the silI sill sil- sil l I vcr cr men That ratio of sixteen to one was fixed 5 b by Thomas Jefferson when he was president of i r. r I the United States StaLes England's ratio was fifteen I 1 i to one that of France fifteen and a half to one I c F. F and so old Thomas to make s sure lre fixed ours at r f sixteen to one because at nt that til time le silver r was wasi wasl i held stable metal than which wInch indeed l a more than gold it had always been since SInce coinage began in In tho the world Then he hc states that the farmers were by thousands thousands thousands thou thou- I. I sands in favor of silver because their crops were so low and the tile promise was made macic that silver sil all vcr ver restored they would get a dollar a bushel for forb b wheat at The proper statement of that is that not J 01 only the farmers farmers' crops but the farms had fallen j in value alue measured by gold just the same as allver sil- sil g yer ver yer had fallen and it was made very clear that there there never ne could be bG any raIl rally from that until a anew new new volume of money was given th the United States He tIc of Mark 7 Ilauna's Hannas into tells politics poli poli- tics CB and his work for McKinley l his personal j friend Mark was a shrewd man engaged I in an extel extensive s se e business in Ohio and his id idea a of J money nu was va that it must be absolutely sound sound Bound I money lOle Dud and the fact that silver had never fallen fallon 1 o. o on one grain rain from its old place side place si side e by side id with withas vi h Wt k J JP g P ra as lt ll r V vas was ignored by him hun It Tt had md f fallen of course couise it ft ith in h is bo bad fd money b but lt the truth VlIS was that lt it lI never cl had hud f fallen lIen until the recognition of our gov- gov was taken from froni it H and aud then gold legan Ho f be inflated m measured by bj an any product of th thi theor the i earth rth o or by the cm earth th H itself lie Je admits that immense sums were spent in int 1 thai i t hat campaign rp To tell teU the truth he lie a ought to i C 4 sai said that so much monc money was spent by Mark f na that all aU the states state in the Mississippi val val- J J ley Y above the mouth month of the Ohio where absolutely flooded with it fo He JIe says sars the e expectation was Bland would be TJ nominated That was as' as asno no exp expectation at all Mr Ir if Hil who led the eastern castern delegations wanted a straight ight out out old fashioned goldbug nominated j Mr Ir Bla Bland ul led ed the thie D Democrats who IH had d fallen awa away r on account of silver but there was a n. third party those that deserted desert d tl tile the e. e Republican convention convention conven- conven tion in in 1896 and their intention was ris to nominate I S Senator Teller When the convention was in sea ses- I sion jq Mr l Hill Bin Wade made H dc a speech It Jt was cheered for foru u tL qU quarter of an hour and in that quarter of an anI I f hour l' l it was whispered around among the faithful that the next speaker for the silver si side e must b be cheered longer than thun was ws as Mr 11 Hill It happened to tobe be Mr 11 Bryan He lIe earned carried the convention off its its f et and was nominated shortly after Not r I many 1 auy DY people wanted Bland because he heV hep heI p I V was vaS ls' ls a dull sort of or a it man an and all he knew w about silver was reflected light He lIe had not f n an prig original al thought in his mind He lIe lived two years r ars on the and he got some sonic ideas but butr r ha knew he-knew n w no jc more bout about the philosophy of money moner than be he did of the l Greek alphabet The same same writer admits that Mr Cleveland Cle I h ha had l lost the popularity l he e obtained taine when he was I ejected e I He n never ncr cr was elected a second time That is be he was elected by 2400 votes that a II thief I stole from General Butler on oil Lond Loud Island As it was wasi he lie was ivas only mily elected b by r 1100 and some odd 1 j votes vote's t s and then the Democracy to be entirely consistent con con- ou- ou after taking the s stolen olen goods sent the thief 4 L to th the tho peni penitentiary r for a term terni of years ears That is I lJ how how- Mr 11 Cleve Cleveland was made president nt in iii 1902 I I f e A And a h ho ho- tells about the bond boid transaction between th president the secretary of the treasury Mr Cf Carlisle le and Morgan and nd company Mr r. r Cleveland Cleve Cleye- land aud and andr nd Mr r Carlisle permitted Morgan Z and comp com company com cam I p pany y t to crowd greenbacks on the treasury and obtain gold As fast as fiS the gl greenbacks got back to td N New York they presented them again and got more laor gold until they re reduced the legal deposits I thirty or forty millions of ot dollars Then Mr Cl Cleveland and Mr rl Oa Carlisle lisle issued the bonds They would not let lct the people bid on ou them They were ii sold Laid old to Morgan and company compan for fot 92 and aud in two i months the they were and the thc people have been 0 paying interest on them ever ver since Mr r. r Cleveland Cleve Clove land could not make lm a living at practicing law in inn I n Buffalo lff o. o puri During g th the four years that he lie was lust last 1 president thousands of qi men nien were broke b because i the money mOIler was HI gone out Jut of the country au Mr ti r i lu Cleveland I a d retired from office with ith f so o lh money that a few years later when h he wrote a letter upon what should be done dOll with ex presidents he admitted that he needed nothing that he had been fortunate enough to have ample funds for his family Then Theft after Mr l McKinley i was inaugurated he wl who o at heart was as good a silver man as Br Bryan all appointed a commission t to see i if an international agreement could not be made macle for the reestablishment establish re-establish- ment of silver on a fair basis Thu Tha commission went to France and was received with open arms all the commission asI asked ed was granted th the premier of France went with the commission to England to negotiate there and it looked as though we we would have silver restored in a little while Just then Mr 7 rr McKinley i permitted his secretary of tho treasury IJ Lyman man Gage to wire to England that the United States did not want silver restored which broke the heart of Senator Wolcott of Colorado Colo Cob rado who was at the head of the commission There is only o one erie e thing more needed and that is because of that legislation our trade with half the world is killed so far as our exports go while these workers are under that same sarno law Jaw able to bring to this country their wares and sell soU them at 60 per cent disco discount nt measured in our money below what they sold them for twenty-five twenty years Jears ago |