The Southern Mercury. (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1892 Page: 1 of 16
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Official Journal of the Farmers State Alliance of Texas.
"Organize, Educate, Co-Opérate." }
| "Liberty, Justice, Equality."
Vol. XI, No. 22.
DALLAS, TEXAS, THURSDAY, JUNE 2, 1892.
| Whole No. 527.
Another Chapter of the Infamous
Plot. Worse Than the Haz-
zard or the Buell Con-
spiracy.
Many of our readers have heard
through the press and from the
stump, of the intamous scheme dis-
closed in the Hazzard circular, and
the Buell letter. When they read
it their American blood sizzled at
fever heat. We now have the
privilege of adding another chapter
of the diabolical plan, which has
been effectually worked to enslave
our people. It is no hear-say,
vague, unreliable statement. It
comes under the sacred oath of one
of the parties who was present
when the conversation occurred.
Read it Americans! and ask your-
selves how long such bribe taking,
liberty killing, conscienceless trai-
tors shall be allowed to control the
destinies of our country. No doubt
the statements of Mr. Luckenbach
will be denied by the plutocratic
poltroons who follow the dictates
of Tammany and W all street:
Mr. Frederick A. Luckenbach is
a citizen of Denver, and is well and
favorably known by many of Col-
orado's leading business men. He
has been engaged for two years
past in introducing his pneumatic
pulverizer, and has met with flat-
tering success. It having come to
the ears of Mr. M. H. Slater, chair-
man of the executive committee of
the State Silver League, that Mr.
Luckenbach possessed the startling
information contained in the affi-
davit, that energetic gentleman im-
mediately waited upon him and
induced him to put the whole story
in explicit form and give it to the
public. This Mr. Luckenbach did,
and the result is the affidavit pub-
lished below:
STATE OF COLORADO, \
County of Arapahoe, j *
Frederick A. Luckenbach, being
first duly sworn on oath, deposes
and says: I am sixty-two years of
age, was born in Bucks county,
Pennsylvania. I removed to the
city of Philadelphia in the year
1846, and continued to reside there
until 1860, when I removed to the
city of New York. In Philadel-
phia I was in the furniture busi-
ness. In New York I branched
into machinery and inventions, and
am the patentee of Luckenbach's
pneumatic pulverizer, which ma-
chines are now in use generally in
the eastern part of the United
States and Europe. I now reside
in Denver, having removed from
New York two years ago. I am
w.ell known in New York. I have
been a member of the produce ex-
change and am well acquainted
with many members of that body.
I am well known by Mr. E. Wy-
man.
In the year 1865 I visited Lon-
don, Eng., for the purpose of plac-
ing there Pennsylvania oil prop-
erties in which I was interested. I
took with me letters of introduc-
tion to many gentlemen in London
among them one to Mr. Ernest
Seyd from Robert M. Foust, ex-
treasurer of4 Philadelphia. I be-
came well acquainted with Mr.
Seyd, and with his brother, Richard
Seyd, who, I understand, is yet
living. I visited London there-
after every year, and at each visit
renewed my acquaintance with
Mr. Seyd, and upon each occasion
became his guest one or more times
—joining his family at dinner or
other meals.
In February, 1874, while on one
of these visits, and while his guest
for dinner, I, among other things,
alluded to rumors afloat of parlia-
mentary corruption, and expressed
astonishment that such corruptions
should exist. In reply to this, he
told me he could relate facts about
the corruption of the American
Congress that would place it far
ahead of the English parliament
in that line. So far, the conversa-
tion was at the table between us.
His brother, Richard, and others
were there also, but this was table
talk between Mr. Ernest Seyd and
myself. After the dinner ended,
he invited me to another room
where he resumed the conversation
about legislative corruption. He
said: "If you will pledge me your
honor as a gentleman not to di-
vulge what I am about to tell you
while I live, I will convince you
that what I said about the corrup-
tion of the American Congress is
true." I gave him the promise,
and he then continued: "I went
to America in the winter of 1872-
3, authorized to secure, if I could,
the passage of a bill demonetizing
silver. It was to the interest of
those I represented—the governors
of the Bank of England—to have
it done. I took with me Ü100,-
000 sterling, if that was not suffi-
cient to accomplish the object to
draw tor another £100,000 or as
much more as was necessary." He
told me German bankers were also
interested in having it accom-
plished. He said he was the finan-
cial adviser of the bank. He said
"I saw the committees of the House
and Senate and paid the money,
and staid in America until I knew
the measure was safe." I asked if
he would give me the names ot the
members to whom he paid the
money, but this he declined to do.
He said: "Your people will not
now comprehend the far-reaching
extent of that measure—but they
will in after years. Whatever you
may think of corruption in the
English parliament, I assure you I
would not have dared to make such
an attempt here, as I did in your
country." I expressed my shame
to him, for my countrymen in our
legislative bodies. The conversa-
tion drifted into other subjects, and
after that—though I met him many
times—the matter was never again
referred to.
(Signed)
Frederick A. Luckenbach.
Subscribed and sworn to before
me at Denver, this ninth day of
May, A. D., 1892.
(Signed) James A. Miller,
Clerk Supreme Court, State of
[seal.] Colorado.
• i i «
Te the Democratic Executive Com-
mittee and Democrats of the
14th Senatorial District.
I hereby tender my resignation
as your chairman, elected by the
democrats in convention assembled
at Ilearns in August, 1890, for the
following reasons:
1st. On account of the dictatorial
proceedings of the chairman of the
state executive committee in pro-
scribing good democrats for hav-
ing advanced views on the main
question now before the people, in
which every American citizen is
vitally interested.
2d. Under the leadership of the
machine politicians^ the democratic
party is being led away from the
fundamental principles of democ-
racy upon which our free institu-
tions were founded, and delivered
to the oppressive money and cor-
porate powers which have corrupt-
ed its leaders, and now control the
'¿I. The democratic majority in
the House of Representatives was
elected upon a free silver platform,
they were therefore pledged to the
free coinage of silver, and in a cor-
rupt and cowardly manner have
repudiated their pledge and de-
ceived the people, by refusing even
to allow the question to come to a
vote.
4th. The inconsistency of dem-
ocratic policy, in instructing dele-
gates to vote for the free and un-
limited coinage of silver, and at
the same time to support the gold
bug, Grover Cleveland, who loaned
the national banks $60,000,000
without interest, and vetoed a bill
for the relief of the starving peo-
ple of Texas.
While the democratic party has
always claimed to protect all indi-
vidual rights, it has aided and
abetted in allowing a few chartered
classes to have a monopoly of the
governmental power to issue and
control the money, which priees
every individual's tlabor and pro-
duct, and that too without legal
power of redress or prevention.
Yours respectfully,
E. S. Peters.
An Open Letter.
Editor Dal i as-Galveston News.
Believing that the News is will-
ing to do justice to all, and know-
ing that I have always been treat-
ed fairly in its columns, I take this
means of setting myself right be-
fore the people of Texas. On Sat-
urday, May 14, J met ex-Gov. John
Ireland in debate on the principles
involved in the platform adopted
by the St. Louis labor conference
of Feb. 22 -24. In the News of the
19th inst., your Wilson county
correspondent stated that I admit-
ted the truth of the charge now
circulated in Texas, that the reso-
lution relating to paying the Union
Soldiers the difference between the
depreciated currency in which they
were paid, and gold, was a part of
the St. Louis platform. That state-
ment I hereby denounce as unqal-
ifiedly false, and absolutely with-
out foundation in fact; and further,
if your correspondent was present
he knows his statement to be false.
So far from making any such ad-
mission, I spent at least one-half
an hour in a submission of proofs
that the so-called "12th plank" was
not a part of the platform.
I can secure affidavits of 600
men in Wilson county who heard
the debate, that your correspond-
ent sent you a false report, ana that
my position as above stated, is the
same taken at Sour Springs in
Wilson county on May 14th.
In the interest of fair play and
justice, I ask you to publish this
correction in order to remove the
false impression created by your
mendacious correspondent.
Yours truly, R. W. Coleman.
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