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A recent publi-
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cntiou by n lead
ing organ of Bryanarchy declares :
"No trust ever contributed n cent to
the democratic campaign fund since W.
J. Bryan got control of the party. "
Since the Nebraska Independent thus
declares the Boss-ship of Bryan how can
it fail to remember that the Silver
Smelter's Guild the combination of all
It v the owners and producers of silver bul
lion in the United States put up for his
election in 1896 hundreds of thoupauds
of dollars ? That combine of capital and
the Bryan combine of offlcehunters
work for the same end. They co-labor
to make silver junk worth a dollar and
twenty-nine cents an ounce by a mere
bo-it-euacted , when on the world's mar
kets that metal is selling for about sixty
cents an ounce.
What would the silver combine re
fuse to give to elect the Bryan combine ?
What did it refuse to give in 1896 ?
What did it put into Nebraska that year ?
GODDAKD VS. SMYTHE.
The attorney-general of Kansas is not
a flabbergastic , flamboyant demagogue
seeking to get votes for his party , by
bringing suits against corporations just
at the beginning of a campaign.
Mr. Goddard even has the temerity testate
state : ' 'If anybody can point out one
benefit which the people would secure
by my driving The Standard Oil Com
pany from Kansas I will go into the
supreme court and ask that it be en
joined from transacting any further
business in Kansas. "
But in Nebraska Constant Blarney
Smythe with benignant complacency
smilingly paraphrases Goddard and de
clares : "If anybody in Nebraska can
point out one office , which the people
will award to me , or secure to House
Rent Holcomb or Bryauarchy in general ,
I will begin proceedings against The
Standard Oil Company Justin the putset
of our hunt for offices , under the triune
trust of populism , Chicago platformism
and silver republicanism. "
Goddard wants cheap oil. Smythe
wants cheap votes. Goddard uses com
mon sense. Smythe uses blarney.
General
Attorney -
SMYTHE.
eral Smythe is not
ignorant of the fact that the Omaha
smelter became a member of the smelt
ing works syndicate last April.
Attorney-General Smytho must know
that the smelter combine is as much a
trust as The Standard Oil Company and
that the aforesaid silver smelting com
bine is also doing business in Nebraska ,
right under his nose , even in Omaha.
Why does Attorney-General Smythe
fail to begin an action to prevent the
Silver Trust from doing business in Ne
braska ? Would the tearing down of
the enormous trust in silver which is
represented , at Omaha , by Barton and
Nash be anything more than an allur
ing duty to Attorney-General Smythe ?
How could the utter destruction of the
combine to raise the price of silver be
anything else than frantically pleasing
to Allen , Clem Deaver , Bryan & Com
pany ?
Standard Oil is only a pigmy a Tom
Thumb compared to the Silver Trust
now and always for free silver at 16 to
1 , and always putting up money for
Bryan 1
HiniETAI/LIST CEUNUSCHI.
The howlers for free coinage who ,
under the instruction and command of
Colonel Bryan , declare that opening the
United States mints to the free and un
limited coinage of silver at sixteen to
one will make silver bullion equal in
value to silver coin , abjure the teachings
of Henri Ceruuschi. He said :
"L'argent monnatjc vaitt plus quc Ic
metal non monnaye. La faussete de cette
maxime a ete denoncee a tonics Ics
epoques da Vhistoire ; les anciens rois qui
V ont praliquee enl rccu ct garde le nom
dc faux monnaycurs. "
Which being translated so that all
Bryauarchists can read and understand
that their tutors and leaders have been
teaching "a maxim the falsity of which
has been denounced in all the epochs of
history" is as follows :
"Minted silver is worth more than that
metal non-minted.
"The falsity of this maxim has been
denounced in all the epochs of history ;
the ancient kings who practiced it have
received and retained the name of false
coiners. "
What have modern political bosses
who preach this maxim to say in exten
uation of the crime of misleading people
ple by misinformation on the money
question ? Ancient kings and modern
bosses are always false coiners !
THE
WSGUSTING.
CONSERVATIVE
stated , some weeks since , the fact that
Colonel William Jennings Bryan when
first he sought an office in Nebraska de
clared that he wished that office because
of the money it would bring him , and
not for the honor , The New York Sun
and several other papers have contra
dicted THE CONSERVATIVE , and even in
timated that it has an impediment in its
veracity. The smaller organs of Bryan
archy , however , merely deny , in a
feeble way , the implied desire for money
and denounce the allegation as "dis
gusting. " The truth , sometimes , is ex
ceedingly disgusting to a liar , and at all
times overwhelming to falsehood.
" " is tto money
.
in the office and
not the honor which I seek" said Col.
William Jennings Bryan when he first
began making a fortune out of politics.
_ The triune trust
. . ,
1JUYANAKCIIY. , . . . . . . .
by which all the
offices in Nebraska are sought to be
monopolized held a meeting of its direc
tors at Omaha on the 22d of August
1899.
The allegedly democratic corporation ,
the pretended silver republican corpora
tion , and the Allen populist corporation
merged their stock into a blind pool. As
trusts in manufacture and commerce
bury all differences of methods , opinions
and principles for the sake of profits , so
this triune trust of office-seekers caused
the silver office-
- protection - republican - -
hunter , and the free-trade-office-hunt-
to shake
ing-Ohicago-platform-democrat
hands , embrace and fuse with the initia
tive - referendum and irredeemable-
money-populist for public position and
' 'for the money in it rather than the
honor. "
The platform is merely a personal pro-
uunciamento. It was drafted , submitted
and passed by Mr. Bryan who is "a
boss" in Nebraska as Croker is in New
York. THE CONSERVATIVE copies from
the Douglas County World-Herald of
August 23 , 1899 , the subjoined :
" W. J Bryan , chairman of the com
mittee on resolutions , stepped upon the
stage to read the report of the com
mittee , and was greeted with a storm of
applause.
IMiitforin a Scorcher.
"The following is the platform , the
reading of which was punctuated by
repeated cheers :
"We , the democrats of the state of
Nebraska , in convention assembled , in
dorse and emphasize each and every
plank of the national platform adopted
at Chicago in 1896.
"Our confidence in the principles sot
forth in that platform has been increased
as those principles have been vindicated
by events. The gold standard is less de
fensible now than it was in 1896 since
the president has confessed its failure
by sending a commission to Europe to
secure foreign aid is added proof that the
people of the United States must act
alone if they expect relief. The present
legal ratio of 16 to 1 is the natural and
necessary ratio and the opponents of that
ratio have nothing to offer in its place
but the evasion and ambiguous phraseology
elegy which for years furnished to the
gold standard advocates a mask behind
which to hide while they secretly labored
to make gold monometallism permanent.
Any improvement in business conditions
due to the increased production of gold
or to a favorable balance of trade , in
stead of supporting the gold standard
doctrine , shows that more money makes
better times and points the way to bi
metallism as the means of securing a
permanent increase in the volume of
standard money throughout the world.
"The republican scheme to lessen the
volume of standard money by making
